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It isn't an issue of not using onInitialized. I am talking about TStaticVars going AWOL hours after their creation without an NPC server shutdown or downtime in between.

In addition, yes, both of the DB NPCs I ran this in had onCreated() called in their onInitialized().

Like I said, I'm not doubting you that you've had success with TStaticVars not poofing. However, I've got several years of experience and troubleshooting this exact situation that say otherwise.

@Scriptless: Garbage collecting is a term used to mean that no-longer-references objects/variables are simply deleted after their references are gone.

The most common example of garbage collection is when a function terminates, its temp.variables are garbage collected unless stored elsewhere. That's what makes 'em temp.