In a message dated 3/21/01 10:37:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jonorg@hotmail.com writes: > How about 128bitvector with OasisOLC and ascii pfile? Are there anything > that I should change to make them work with 128bitvector? If yes, how? > > Can anyone also tell me what other changes that I should consider, or would > it be easier to use bitfield for newbie like me. I know that I might be > asking a lot, but i just want to plan ahead to make sure I have less > headache in the future. To say the least, this sure has caused a stir-up I have been coding for 4 years, and I have looked at the 128 bit stuff and the way the code comes, and after 4 years, i have still found it easyer to simply make another set of bitflags. I currently use about 80 or so flags. AND each time I add in a new set, I DO NOT have to do a player wipe, why? because you can simply use one of the spares in the player file in structs.h Why go thou all those code changs in all those files when you can simply add one line in your player file, and duplicate a few lines of code. It takes about 5 mins (10 mins if I stop to smoke a cig) to add in 32 new flags. And it does not break any security in those of us that use binary files. So, What all this comes down to. Is you have to decide do i want a few sets of 32 flags, which holds down memory, or do I want to have 128? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arthur Sheffield Creator of 'Rising Moon' -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Icq # 111554785 Alt E-mail address: rmarthur01@netscape.net -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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