[Phanx]

Originally Posted by Resike I know, but the saved variables force me to do it, and i don't have time to write a proper conversion tool atm.

For a one-time conversion of key names in a saved variables table, you really don't need a "proper conversion tool"... just do it quick and dirty, and don't worry about efficiency, because it doesn't matter in this context:

local function FindMapID(name)
     for i = 1, 1200 do
          if GetZoneNameByID(i) == name then
               return i
          end
     end
end

for k, v in pairs(db) do
    if type(k) == "string" then
         local id = FindMapID(k)
         if id then
              db[id] = v
              db[k] = nil
         else
              print("ERROR: no mapID found for zone name:", k)
         end
     end
end