Well I tried a normal game and got the same corruption of the database. I also don't seem to get solicitation of the metaservers (from iptables logging on that machine looking for outgoing traffic on 3521 (udp and tcp). In fact Ideally I would like bots to appear as players to attract new people to try that first, I guess I will have to look at the code but my programming is pretty feeble. Cheers Dave _______________________________________________ vanilla-devel mailing list vanilla-devel at us.netrek.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/vanilla-devel