[BUG] Can’t set an area owner with command

I’m trying to set one of my areas’ owner to another of my characters, which is on a different account therefore counted as a ‘player’.

I type out the command:

set area October’s Mansion : owner = October Nightmare

And I get this error message:

Not allowed to give ownership to another player’s character.

I’m happy to set a room to the area and use the interface through that, but can you fix this please? :sweat_smile:

To give an area (or room) to a character on another account, you cannot give it directly, as it would be a mess if people could just randomly hand you areas and rooms.

But you can send the other account a request to transfer ownership:

request area October’s Mansion : owner = October Nightmare

This will show up as a request for the other player/account:

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Just click it open and select Accept, and the transfer is made.

See all the request commands:

Help command Usage
help request exit Request to create an exit to someone else’s room
help request room owner Request to give room ownership to someone else’s character
help request room area Request to set the room area to an area owned by someone else’s character
help request area owner Request to give area ownership to someone else’s character
help request area parent Request to set the parent area to an area owned by someone else’s character

… and now that I think about it.
That error message should instead tell you how to make the request, shouldn’t it?

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OOOOOH OK- a requesty command would make more sense, thank you!!
and error messages telling you how it’s done would be nice, lol