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Frequently Asked Questions
How do I add accounts? How do I make myself admin/gm/owner?
Option 1) Before you start your shard, open sphereaccu.scp in the accounts folder. Add yourself like so:
    [Youracctname]
    PLEVEL=*
    PASSWORD=pass_goes_here
Option 2) After you start your shard type the following in the Sphere console (Sphere window):
    ACCOUNT ADD yourname yourpass <press enter>
    ACCOUNT yourname PLEVEL * <press enter>
    Type A <press enter>
    Type # <press enter>
For plevel * use 7 for owner, 6 for admin, 5 for dev, 4 for GM, 3 for seer, 2 for counselor, 1 for player.
How do I get players connected to my shard?
Give them a login.cfg like shown below, or tell them to add this to theirs:
    LoginServer=your.shard.ip,your.shard.port
Example:
    LoginServer=123.23.34.45,2593
    OR
    LoginServer=myshard.dns2go.com,2593
Undead creatures are being killed in one hit, and aren't leaving a corpse behind! What's broken?
This is because undeads are seriously nerfed during daylight. It is intentional, it's not a bug. Undead aren't supposed to run out in the daytime. If you don't want this to happen, edit their scripts and remove the TEVENTS= e_undead line, or uncomment the RETURN 0 line in the e_undead event in sphere_d_events.scp where it says to.
How do I put my shard on the playlist/shardlist?
It should be automatic. If your sphere.ini somehow got changed or deleted, you can restore the register server easily. Open sphere.ini, change the REGISTERSERVER line to the following, then restart your shard:
    REGISTERSERVER=list.sphereserver.com
What is Axis?
Axis is a Sphere GM tool. It lets you add items and NPCs, travel the map, cast spells, edit the map script, automatically roof buildings, adjust and tweak server, item, and NPC settings/properties, and a multitude of other things. Axis is highly recommended for ALL Sphere GMs and Admins, regardless of experience level. You can find it at http://sphere-axis.sourceforge.net.
I have a gm/admin/owner account but my name does not say so in front in the game. Why?
Only GM will show up for any of these PLEVELs, you will not get Admin John for example. If GM is not showing up, type .gm 1 in game. It should say GM=1 (1 is on, 0 is off). An alternative you could do, is type .privshow 0 to turn off the "GM" tag on your name, then set your name to "Admin John" instead.
How do I remove guards from a certain area? How do I edit a region's flags?
1) Temporary fix (for quests perhaps?) type .region.guarded 0 in the region in question. This will only last until you restart your server.

2) Permanent fix: This has been made very simple to do in this Sphere release. Find the region name by typing .where in game. Find that location in spheremap.scp and simply add or remove flags to the region as you wish. You will see something like this:
    FLAGS=region_flag_underground|region_flag_globalname|region_flag_nobuilding
To add a new flag (for example to make it guarded) you'd just add |region_flag_guarded onto the end. To remove a flag (say to allow building there) you'd simply delete |region_flag_nobuilding.

The | symbol is a sign of addition for the flags, so flag|flag|flag really means something like flag+flag+flag. As long as you keep your flag= line in the same format: flag=flag|flag|flag|flag you can have as many or as few flags in a region as you want. The flags are listed in sphere_d_defs.scp.
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