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So once a house starts decaying from a certain point (I would guess from Greatly Worn given the times) It becomes un-refreshable and has a decay animation over time!!.Last modified: 08/02/1999 13:58:26 wrote:Once a house starts collapsing its impossible to stop it, after the roof goes the walls just start disappearing tile by tile, then door and sign, and finally the foundation goes. The overall time from "like new" to the actual collapsing is 11 days. Refreshing a house or ship once a week is sufficient to keep it from falling apart. It's best to refresh a long time before the server starts saving (at 5 AM local time), more than once has a house decayed because the refresh of the house was not saved.
Outstanding. Anyone remember houses looking to be in a state of decay? Statics apparently does.