Loading Deleted Obj Type

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Feb 27 2010, 5:33 pm
Hi,

Whenever I delete an object from the code, all the player's save files that had that obj error when they load and don't load anything after that, so people lose half their inventory. Is there some way to avoid that happening, without using 'placeholder' objs?
Feb 27 2010, 5:41 pm
An example of what you could do. What's so bad about placeholder objs?
obj
 carrot
  icon = 'carrot.dmi'
  icon_state = "fresh"
mob
 verb
  give_carrot()
   src.contents += /obj/carrot
mob
 verb
  take_carrot()
   src.contents -= /obj/carrot
   usr << "Ey, thats mine!"
mob
 Logout()
  src.contents -= /obj/carrot
Feb 27 2010, 5:45 pm
In response to Darkjohn66
That wouldn't really work because if it doesn't save I don't know what obj's they had in the first place.

Placeholder obj's will just clutter up my code and some of the obj's are /obj/skill/ type, and it does things like "for every skill" so it would include the placeholder obj's in that list...
Feb 27 2010, 5:48 pm
In response to Sprin
Set up variables for every object. Save them, and when you login/load the account if that variable is say set to 1 add the verb, if 0 return.
Feb 27 2010, 8:06 pm
It's theoretically possible to filter out old entries in savefiles, but really you're better off just keeping them defined and deleting as you go. For example:

obsolete
  New()
    del(src)

// Define a compiler macro to make typing a bit easier
#define OBSOLETE parent_type=/obsolete

obj/thing_we_dont_want_any_more
  OBSOLETE