diff --git a/world/shared_tasks.cpp b/world/shared_tasks.cpp
index ee8fdbbd1..a1840df55 100644
--- a/world/shared_tasks.cpp
+++ b/world/shared_tasks.cpp
@@ -112,6 +112,32 @@ void SharedTaskManager::HandleTaskRequestReply(ServerPacket *pack)
 		tasks.erase(it);
 }
 
+/*
+ * This is called once during boot of world
+ * We need to load next_id, clean up expired tasks (?), and populate the map
+ */
+bool SharedTaskManager::LoadSharedTaskState()
+{
+	// clean up expired tasks ... We may not want to do this if world crashes and has to be restarted
+	// May need to wait to do it to cleanly inform existing zones to clean up expired tasks
+
+	// Load existing tasks. We may not want to actually do this here and wait for a client to log in
+	// But the crash case may actually dictate we should :P
+
+	// set next_id to highest used ID + 1
+	return true;
+}
+
+int SharedTaskManger::GetNextID()
+{
+	next_id++;
+	// let's not be extra clever here ...
+	while (tasks.count(next_id) != 0)
+		next_id++;
+
+	return next_id;
+}
+
 bool SharedTask::DecrementMissingCount()
 {
 	--missing_count;
diff --git a/world/shared_tasks.h b/world/shared_tasks.h
index 620db404d..791c7cf30 100644
--- a/world/shared_tasks.h
+++ b/world/shared_tasks.h
@@ -34,15 +34,17 @@ private:
 
 class SharedTaskManager {
 public:
-	SharedTaskManager() {}
+	SharedTaskManager() : next_id(0) {}
 	~SharedTaskManager() {}
 
+	bool LoadSharedTaskState();
+
 	// IPC packet processing
 	void HandleTaskRequest(ServerPacket *pack);
 	void HandleTaskRequestReply(ServerPacket *pack);
 
 private:
-	inline int GetNextID() { return ++next_id; }
+	int GetNextID();
 	int next_id;
 	std::unordered_map<int, SharedTask> tasks;
 };