Hi,
Great to see that you're hosting empire mud, I'll be stopping by! As someone who's also attempting to run a version of this codebase, I've got a question for you as I'm doing some experimenting with it. How did you mannage to determine which island your starting area was on, as the numbers don't seem to match up when doing island list, inorder to set the newbie flag in the correct place.
Thanks,
Daniel