[crossfire] requestable spell lists.

Brendan Lally brenlally at gmail.com
Sat Jan 7 07:52:00 CST 2006


On 1/7/06, Mark Wedel <mwedel at sonic.net> wrote:
> Brendan Lally wrote:
> > Currently I have it set up to send the name and then name_pl as the
> > display name, but only if it is
> > 1) present
> > 2) different from name.
> >
> > I could of course use a different field instead ('title' maybe?)
>
>   Ok.  I wonder if we should just not worry about it until there is actually a
> case where it is used (unless there is something on the drawing board right
> now?)  As otherwise, we start going down the path of including all sorts of
> fields in all sorts of commands because they could be useful at some point -
> designing for that just becomes more complicated.

ok then, If I make spellcasting by number part of the same patch, then
the protocol can specify that the client should use the number to cast
spells with, rather than the name. At that point what name is sent
doesn't much matter, as long as the client handles them according to
spec.



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