Post: #32

yep I did some tests here and found the problem. The worldsave is not saving some specific spawn properties (MORE2 / SPAWNITEM / etc). Instead save these values, sphere saves only the ADDOBJ line on the spawn item, to automatically generate the others values on server startup

but the problem is: on the save file, sometimes the spawn item is saved before the spawned NPC. So on server startup, sphere first will read the spawn item, will found the ADDOBJ=0123456 line and will try to link this UID 0123456 (the NPC) to this spawn item. But this NPC is not loaded yet, making the link fail. And without this link, the spawn wont be able to fill these missing properties and will count as "0 spawned chars", and will create another NPC later

so maybe the only way to get an reliable engine is save again these values on worldsave instead try to generate it automatically using ADDOBJ