[BMA] Server will be down

[Berendol]

I'm making some big changes to the server savefile structure today. Unfortunately this seems to have broken the server savefile already, and believe me, I tried really hard to prevent that. So, when the server is back up it'll be a fresh new server. I figure it'd be best to take it offline until I'm done to minimize the frustration everyone is going to probably have. I apologize to all of my players who *don't* have 8 hours a day to get their characters back up to speed.

[Crimson]

Yeah, a big disadvantage of being on the bleeding edge, the dreaded server savefile breakage.

This is one of the reaons I do move so slowly, though.

[Berendol]

True. The MOTD has always said I might do this, though, so that's covered at least.

I'm almost completely rewriting the save routines so they make sense and there aren't any unused fields. I already had to change them in order to support keyless houses but this is something new. I'm almost done writing out the old structure on paper at the moment, and then I'll write up a new one and code it. It's a lot of work wading through all the useless code that was for "future" savefiles and backwards compatible garbage that doesn't apply to MAngband...