Coolguy wrote:
would be nice to have a command which would list the numbers associated with
your gear, both worn and inv, when you have multiple instances of an equipment
type, would be useful when trying to sort keep lists, etc
example
ring 1 - ring of crap ring 2 - Ring of wonders ring 3 - infravision ring
also would be nice if mounts didnt balk at entering obc, regardless of having
ride underground on or not. serves no purpose and makes parties mad when
running to areas
The reason why this very useful command, and ones like it, have not yet been
made is because the code makes it somewhere between tricky and undoable. Let
me explain. Let's say you have four rings from four different coders, and you
want them to show up as "ring 1", "ring 2", etc. Sounds fair enough. But, the
coders gave them each different handles -- "blue ring", "red ring", "diamond
ring", and "stone ring", as their primarey handles, or "name". They each
respond to the secondary handle of "ring", so you can still wear them thusly,
but each thinks it's unique because they have different names.
We could go through each handle of each item, but there's honestly no way of
the game knowing which handle you like, and that kind of cycling for each
item's id through all your sets, would eat more CPU than it's worth. To make
matters worse, while most rings are rings, most other armour types aren't
nearly as common. For example, there are a half-dozen types of head armours
and nearly a dozen torso types. AND, some bastard coders, myself included,
will misname those on purpose (i.e. making a "black vest" that's armour type
"breastplate" so it has better armour).
So it's a tricky situation, no matter how useful it sounds. Sorry.
Shinarae Lluminus