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Old October 8th, 2009, 03:12 AM
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Default Re: Max mod nation description length?

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Originally Posted by Stavis_L View Post
Hrm...well, I replaced my text with a block of lorem ipsum, and it seems that #descr (for nations) is actually limited to only 999 characters.
JK has a habit of limiting things at the value 999 (ex.: spell slots, damage), so it may very well be that input strings are limited by that amount.

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Originally Posted by Stavis_L View Post
However, some of the vanilla nations (e.g. LA Caelum) clearly exceed this, so perhaps you found the size of the in-game buffer, and something else is trimming the input to a smaller length prior to display?
As I said, I looked at the parser, but maybe the input from mods is indeed limited artificially by a greater amount than what the ingame limits are, yes.

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Perhaps I should report this as a bug?
It's not a bug, you just found out the real limit. There will always be a limit, anyway.
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