PS Server Setup Guide
You may be able to circumvent this problem by copying the file ./art/world/npcroom.zip from your game distibution to ./art/world/npcroom.zip in your server development directoy.
At the same time you can copy all the other ./art/world files from the game's directory to your development directory.
You can find these names in the file ./data/zoneinfo.xml in your game directory.
Empty your sectors table and then, reading through the above file, create a new entry in the table for each line in the file that is like <zone sector="magicshop">.
Each entry in the table should have the name field set to the quoted word. The rest of the values can be set to 0.
You should add entries to the table in the same order as they are listed in the file. Not certain about this but the order seemed like it might be important.
See here for an example of SQL to populate the table planeshift.sectors.
Loadmap Loop
I found that the following order worked for loading the maps at the time that I wrote this
See here for an example server startup script.
Copy all the files from ./art/things in the game installation directory to the same folder in your development area.
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