[zokemon]

I always find txt files (or whatever you want to call them) to be safer and thus better. The lag from loadlines and such would just be HD lag which Graal usually never experiances on the NPCServer so I really wouldn't worry about it. If you were to store all your data in a DB npc, not only do you have to worry about some idiot reseting the npc, but if the npcserver ever goes down, your data in those npcs might rollback.