Hi everybody...

We have an equippable item that has an OnEquipScript that creates a NEW item and also equips that (boots that create a mount and equips it on the character) . When the boots create-and-equip the brand new mount, the LAYER_MOUNT is now occupied for that character. Then, further down in the pcequip datafile, the old mount that the character had equipped during the world-save (serial 0x6adccefb) tries to get equipped [made some modifications to POL to find this issue]:

Item 0x6adccefb is supposed to be equipped on Character 0x22ed, but is not 'equippable' on that character.
Reason: !chr->equippable(item)
Current mount layer: serial 0x6adcd043
I'm so cool, I put it in the character's backpack!

The current, newly-created mount layer (serial 0x6adcd043) is the new item created with CreateItemX(). Now, pcequip.txt is loaded before other item-containing datafiles (items, storage, etc). The new serial created by the CreateItemX() function already exists in storage.txt, so when storage is loaded:

data/storage.txt:Duplicate item read from datafiles (Serial=0x6adcd043)

Then, the server exits. Thoughts? I'm guessing it's just not a good idea to create-and-equip items from an equipscript?

Edit: Using mount.saveonexit = 0 will fix the first issue of trying to equip the old and new mounts

true, but you can let the server loads if you want. An entry in pol.cfg let you start POL even if duplicates objects are found.

Is there a way to defer the EquipScript until after the server completely loads? If you set IgnoreLoadErrors=1 in pol.cfg, it'll just use the first found serial number, it'll just vanish, and if the second item is something pretty good in the game that'll suck for the player.

The file scripts/misc/equiptest.src has the arguments

program EquipTest(mobile, item, start_up)

Start_up will be 1 if the server is starting, 0 any other time.
I can't remember if the rest of the equip scripts also have that parameter.. but try checking for it in them.

Ah, that's great! I'll just make it so the boots won't create the mount on startup, and players will just have to re-equip the boots on login for simplicity purposes.

Thanks!

I wonder if you'll find it usefull, but you could also simply change speed without equipping a mount.