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Old July 13th, 2008, 03:23 AM
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Default #restricted as bitmask - think about it!

So, here is my biggest official patch request - conversion of #restrictedgod in pretender/newmonster and #restricted in newspell mods to a bitmask rather than a lookup table.

Think about it - it's really the only mod command that applies to a fixed set of numbers (the nations), and if you want to create a monster or spell available to more than one, but not all nations, you have to completely duplicate that spell/monster (since #copystating has proved buggy when used in my pretender mods for this purpose).

I realize it might be a LARGE bitmask (with up to 94 nations), but I think it makes sense. Here is the bitmask for 2^94= 198070406285661000000000000003


And yeah, I know such a patch would break a lot of mods out there, but I don't think it would be a hard mod fix.

Thoughts?
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