left the server running for a few weeks. it's now up to 9000 zenPetrolLighters

Did you get a fix bud?

Nope. I just turned off zenzippo in the cfg, and turned the lifetime for zenpetrollighter to 1, and the restock timer to 14400

@terra Lava!

You can use this script in init.c to remove an item that goes haywire.

// Delete all occurrences of defined objects on the server - Start

// Set isActiveDeleteObjects to 0 if you want to disable deleting objects every restart.
int isActiveDeleteObjects = 1;

TStringArray deleteTheseObjects = new TStringArray;

// Set which objects to delete. Add more objects by comma separate them, for example: deleteTheseObjects = {"ZenPetrolLighter", "OtherObject1", "OtherObject2"} etc.
deleteTheseObjects = {"ZenPetrolLighter"};

if (isActiveDeleteObjects == 1)
{
array<Object> objects = new array<Object>;
GetGame().GetObjectsAtPosition("7500 0 7500", 10000, objects, null);

foreach (Object obj: objects)
{
for (int i = 0; i < deleteTheseObjects.Count(); ++i)
{
if (obj.GetType() == deleteTheseObjects)
GetGame().ObjectDelete(obj);
}
}
}
// Delete all occurrences of defined objects on the server - End

And check the typefile afterwards so everything is good.