I mean, there's a lot to cover, and I don't have the time right now to go through all of it. There are detailed instructions on how to compile the server though, you need to at least have the programmer's manual as a reference. Wizards are dangerous, remember that, you can wipe your entire db in one fowl swoop if you're not careful, unlike these moo admins out here, I would highly highly not recommend walking around as a wizard. Set your character as a programmer, and then only use wizard for wizard things, like @chowning verbs and props, and @chmoding permission bits. You could also modify your restart.sh script to make it copy off a new dB each time the moo is started. You also should change the frequency at which it checkpoints at first, and compile so that it forks the second process, you don't want checkpointing on the same process, it'll freeze / lag your MOO. Also, remember that no matter how powerful a server you have, and how much it may have the ability to load balance processes among your cores or CPUs, MOO is old, and it can only run on one core, so you need to keep your core 0 as light as possible, or MOO might have problems if you start having large numbers of tasks. Be ware of patching the server, or using custom servers, 1.8.1 is a good base and rock stable, but it does not have some features that you may want. Patching the server can make it more unstable, but there are custom servers out there like gamma and stunt, to name only a few. If you use something other than moo 1.8.1 make sure to follow any and all instructions they have. I know its a lot, it involves knowledge of navigating unix file systems, and so forth. Do not use winmoo, I guarantee it will not work for you as you expect. I hope it works out for you. I am not a MOO expert by any stretch, but if you need help with a specific thing, let me know, also there are others here more capable than I am who might be able to help.
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