[CF-Devel] faster portgate (context diff)

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ERACC wrote:
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      On Monday 17 May 2004 12:33
     
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      Nicolas Weeger wrote:
     
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     Note that I committed a few days ago a 'ground positioning system'
     
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     that lets players know where they are in the world - up to them to
     
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     write down interesting locations...
     
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     (should be quest reward, probably, can't yet be found anywhere)
     
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      This is a good idea indeed. However, I don't want to write down all
     
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      these locations offline. Could players get (buy or find) a Log Book
     
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      that allows more entries than the limited scrolls and books they can
     
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      get now? I run into the inscription limitation on a regular basis
     
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      while writing scrolls to inform guild members of events in the guild.
     
     
  I'll increase the size of messages the books can hold - there is no real 
reason for the current limitation.  There can be potential issues with messages 
so long that they don't fit on one screen - the gtk client at least has a 
scrollbar, so that shouldn't be a problem.  But in any case, that is more an 
issue for those people that are writing the books.

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      I'm not asking for an unlimited device for recording things. But a
     
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      new device, specifically a book, that allows recording a significant
     
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      enough amount of information to be useful. Perhaps a 10K, 25K or 50K
     
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      limit and some way to determine how much space is left.
     
     
  I've upped the limit from 800 characters to about 4000.  Going beyond that 
requires a bit more work, as the messages are stored in op->msg, and while I can 
increase that buf, have to be more certain to catch all the references.

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      Hmmm, thinking as I type here ... the scrolling of this text could
     
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      be a problem I see. So, how about a new container called Binder and
     
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      Binder of Holding that holds only non-magical scrolls? Thus one could
     
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      have a collection of scrolls with information on locations, etc.
     
     
  That'd be trivial to done, since it is really just a type of container.  I'm 
not 100% sure if it is possible to limit it to only non magical scrolls/books.

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