Bit of zone code

[steve]

The way you zone into an instance is to use the instance ID, instead of the short zonename. Each instance is tagged as zoneshortname_zoneid_instanceid. The /zone command accepts the zone shortname, zone id, or instance id as parameters.

I'm not sure how the instance ID is calculated. But using '/zone instanceid' allows you to zone into an instance that you're not assigned to. This is where the /adventure command came into play; it listed all of the LDON adventures that were active on the server, the time the instance started, how many seconds until it shut down, the owner of the instance, and the other members that were in the group at the time the instance was requested. Later instancing may be using another method though and is not tracked by /adventure.