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After placing a boat, you logically get a key for it. That's fine.

But when you later re-deed the boat into a boat-model, then place the boat again - you get an extra key. And another key the next time you do it. And another key the next time you do it. And so on

It's probably useful to get an extra key every now and then, but I'm not sure if this is the way to do that. Perhaps check if there already is a key in the players' inventory before adding a new one?

Quite impossible, realistically...

Basically an "extra" key is created because someone decided not to delete current keys (they are simply invalidated).

So two options:

1) Live with it

2) Have all active house/boat keys deleted upon re-deeding / transfer of ownership / regeneration of keys

Then option 2 would be preferable, in my opinion. You wouldn't want the old owner of a boat/house to have keys to the boat/house after selling it.

Well, they basically become blank keys

But yes, I can easily change a SetMore( INVALIDSERIAL ) or whatever it is to Delete().

The only real way to invalidate all key copies (and it would invalidate all, no doubt) is to do an item iteration over all the in the world, invalidating all type 7 with the matching serial. Not fun

We already do that, unfortunately.

However, mutli's are always popular, and thus so will be house re-deeding, transfers, and key regeneration.

So I think I am going to add a vector to keep track of all house keys to save us this trouble in the future.

Updated so keys will be deleted rather than invalidated.