Weapon is deleting itself after i add it.

[Jiroxys7]

The other day, I was working on a particular weapon script, but what's weird was, after I finally got it to work the way I wanted to, the weapon seems to just delete itself immediately from the server. I was lucky enough to have made a backup of it on a text file before this happened. Though if i try to delete the faulty weapon and re-add the code, i'll get an error saying the weapon does not exist when i try to open it again.

What would be causing this to happen? I'm kind of afraid to work on my other scripts now

[Liberated]

What server? Testbed? are you sure you put the right file name, it might not even save as a start.

[fowlplay4]

If you have destroy(); in the server-side portion of a WNPC it will delete itself unless you're destroying another object created by putnpc2 or so.

[Jiroxys7]

Originally Posted by fowlplay4

If you have destroy(); in the server-side portion of a WNPC it will delete itself unless you're destroying another object created by putnpc2 or so.

looks like you're right! i wouldntve guessed that a server-side destroy would do that. Thanks

[fowlplay4]

Originally Posted by Jiroxys7

looks like you're right! i wouldntve guessed that a server-side destroy would do that. Thanks

Logically it should :P I think DB-NPCs are protected from this though.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by fowlplay4

Logically it should :P I think DB-NPCs are protected from this though.

Sort of. I accidentally deleted most of Testbed's DB NPCs once when trying to clear out a bunch of putnpc2's in the start level. "protectdbnpcs" had accidently been left at "false" instead of "true" .

Though, "destroy" should really be disabled for weapons. There's no use for it except for malicious scripters. Especially since Stefan doesn't make daily, weekly, or even monthly backups anymore, a LAT could delete every weapon on the server.

[Jiroxys7]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

Sort of. I accidentally deleted most of Testbed's DB NPCs once when trying to clear out a bunch of putnpc2's in the start level. "protectdbnpcs" had accidently been left at "false" instead of "true" .

Though, "destroy" should really be disabled for weapons. There's no use for it except for malicious scripters. Especially since Stefan doesn't make daily, weekly, or even monthly backups anymore, a LAT could delete every weapon on the server.

Why cant we just get an RC command that only the owner and/or the manager can use? like /createserverbackup and /restoreserverbackup or something.

[WhiteDragon]

Originally Posted by Jiroxys7

Why cant we just get an RC command that only the owner and/or the manager can use? like /createserverbackup and /restoreserverbackup or something.

That would be nice... but still, it makes no sense for daily/weekly/monthly backups to be removed. It is beyond stupid.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by WhiteDragon

That would be nice... but still, it makes no sense for daily/weekly/monthly backups to be removed. It is beyond stupid.

I agree completely. The last backup Stefan has for Era is in mid April. If some malicious scripter or even LAT were to delete all the scripts/levels, we'd be completely ****ed.

[Matt]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

I agree completely. The last backup Stefan has for Era is in mid April. If some malicious scripter or even LAT were to delete all the scripts/levels, we'd be completely ****ed.

I agree also, i've been through a similar scenario about 3 times now. Not fun.

[Jiroxys7]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

I agree completely. The last backup Stefan has for Era is in mid April. If some malicious scripter or even LAT were to delete all the scripts/levels, we'd be completely ****ed.

Now that we're on the topic, the lack of an easy backup is one of the main reasons why i often find myself afraid to hire anybody.

[elite_master]

We really need some updates, or atleast some concern for us developers :[