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Old November 6th, 2006, 02:27 AM
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Default Re: The Modder\'s Wishlist

It'd be great if the game understood hexadecimal bitmasks. Typing bitmasks out in decimal makes my pea-like brain hurt.

This goes double if we're going to be allowing Gods and Spells for multiple nations - since I *assume* you store those as bitmasks on the nation numbers.

#setpermitted 0x<bitmask>
-- Replaces nation specific bitmask.
-- The following table should fit in the manual and be reasoanbly understandable:
-- N = position in string x 4.
-- 0 None of nations N->N+3.
-- 1 Nation N-3 only
-- 2 Nation N-2 only
-- 4 Nation N-1 only
-- 8 Nation N only
-- Sum bitmasks for multiple nations.
-- Thus, the fourth character of the string controls nations 13,14,15 and 16.

#addpermit <nation nbr.>
#addpermits 0x<bitmask>
-- These do a bitwise and on the nation permission bitmask.
#delpermit <nation nbr.>
#delpermits 0x<bitmask>
-- And these are (current bitmask) ^ !(argument).

I'd like to be able to set units to be horrormarked, cursed and/or insane when recruited/summoned. Also, if we could give units the Lady of Love's unrest reduction power, because I want to put that on a non-pretender (and adding restrictgod 2000 or something at the end seems like a bit of a kludge.)

It isn't really needed for me to create new spells in whatever effect category Unholy Power etc. are in, but it'd be nice if we could at least copy those spells (or edit their nation-specifity as described above.) This is needed to add new undead nations.

I would, on the other hand, like new spells of the same effect-type as Transform. Preferably, the Damage would specify the monster-into-which-you-turned.

On that subject, I don't know how the game handles pools of varying number and types of monsters (e.g. Crossbreeding, Unfrozen), but it'd be nice if we could declare new such pools. Possibly we could have monster numbers in the 10000+ range reserved as identifiers for pools of monsters? I don't know how Crossbreeding and Unfrozen are handled internally, but it'd be nice if we could make spells with those properties.

Is the "no unholiness" bugcheck really needed at all? Firstly I don't see why it's needed to absolutely forbid non-sacred units from having holy magic, and I think it sometimes makes my mod crash for no reason, but I might be messsing up.

Thanks,
TNDP
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