I have a room in my game which has many hotspots and coding which would be hard to reproduce.
I need to have a duplicate of this room which I can edit for a hard/easy difficulty setting
it seems to be the easiest way to do this is to import a duplicate of the existing room then edit
that room with the changes I need.
i know I can import whole rooms or at least I think you can.
but if I import a room which already exist in the game will it overwrite or mess with the existing room
or will it just be named something else and exist as two seperate rooms?
Check your game's source folder, there should be a bunch of files named room##.crm and room##.asc (with ## being the room number). Simply create copies of those, rename them to new room number and place them in the folder.
Edit: However, I think importing a room DOES give it a new number.