Zugg Software :: View topic - Automapper changing links to one-way

Newbie Joined: 12 Oct 2000 Posts: 9 Location: USA

I've run into a problem with the automapper feature on two totally different MUDs. I will map a section of the world fine, and close the session. Later, when I go back into the map, a few (maybe a handful out of several thousand) links have been mysteriously changed to one-way. I can detect no pattern as to which links will be affected, and the same links do not seem to be changed more than once (so far). The time to change them back is not a problem, but, as I map more and more rooms, it is difficult to remember which links are legitimately one-way, and which have been randomly changed.

Has anyone else run into this problem and, if so, is there a reasonable cure? TIA.

-Lygaios

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 698

Not positive but I think this might happen because links are only one-way.

Two one-way links make a regular link. So...
If you move from roomA to roomB, a one-way link is created. The mapper shows a regular link, but the roomB to roomA link is untested(and not really created) until you move from roomB to roomA.

If you close the map before moving from roomB to roomA, only one link is saved. Because only one one-way link has been saved, a one-way link is shown when you reopen the mapper.

This may or may not be what you're experiencing.

Newbie Joined: 12 Oct 2000 Posts: 9 Location: USA

I don't think that's happening. First, there are WAY too few rooms showing up with one-way links - I know I haven't travelled both ways on the majority of my links. Secondly, I can log on, stay in one small area, log off and then, when I log back on again, there might be a link or two show up as one-way in an area I did not traverse in the previous session. The biggest problem is that I can see no common denominator for when a link changes and when it doesn't and I certainly cannot reproduce it predictably. Thanks for the idea, though.

-Lygaios

Beginner Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 15

Yes, I've seen this too. Duris: Land of the Bloodlust has a 300x300 room worldmap. After mapping most of it, my roomate and I found a significant number of strange one way links. Eventually, it stopped doing it. I don't know why.

There's settings you can change, or fiddle with that may improve results:

Config (dropdown)
Configuration Settings (option)
interface (option in the leftside tree)

Try fiddling with the settings here and see if it gives better results. Other than that, I don't honestly know what would help.

Enchanter Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 511 Location: USA

I had this issue with Achaea some times, but found it mostly occured from bad linkages when entering a previously mapped room and the mapper not picking things up right. It would then make a new room instead and if I just simply deleted the new room, after a bit I would see a one way link to the room I came from as it's return link no longer pointed to anything.

Newbie Joined: 12 Oct 2000 Posts: 9 Location: USA

That actually sounds like it might fit my situation, also. I'll see if I can nail it down by checking whenever I get a bad overwrite on a room. Thanks for the idea.

-Lygaios