idlepurge, bite my shiny metal donkey! ;P

[ceagle]

Once Upon A Time...

When Hard Drives were 5 megabytes, maybe even 20, yes, megabytes, ....it might have meant something to do muck idlepurges.

Nowadays, what does it accomplish:

1) saves all of maybe 20 k or so for the database character toading ...
2) even more if there was a lot of stuff that they built, at the expense of cohesion in the muck layout
3) the disappointment of a person who returns to find all the hours they spent investing time and energy there, trashed.

So what does it accomplish any more...? It is no more than an archaic technicality, a mere protocol of a bygone day when it mattered. And the result of this unpondered remnant (not unlike a bureaucratic stamp at the department of motor vehicles) ... is a lose-lose situation all around.

I humbly submit... that idle purges may now officially become a thing of the past.

Comments

[mortonfox.livejournal.com]

There needs to be a way to backup all the descriptions, programs, etc that you write on the muck. Aside from idle purges, there's always the possibility that the muck will suffer unrecoverable failure and you'll want to be able to restore everything quickly when it's up again.

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

indeedy good sir!
I think most of them have the @ARCHIVE program, which allows one to do a textual output of their character, which some telnet applications can Upload as a file, and thus restore most attributes (if not all) in one fell swoop.
As for backups of other things, as far as I know that is only available to server admins.