...Are in the making, give me a week or so and i'll give you the scripts.
I'm sure you can appreciate the complexity
Perhaps will be even better than persistent quests WITH db's, as it will cause an extremely lower server load, but will require a lot of tweaking as it may be exploitable.
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Swing a little more on the Devil's Dance Floor.
Supposedly the 1.03 patch that is coming out next week opens up database access again. Maybe it would be better to wait rather than making a complicated solution to a problem that will be simpler later.