Hmm. The comment made on PEQ forum was that one might want to match the function of the game "at the stage of the patch supported". I.e., if Ykesha didn't allow it, then it shouldn't be allowed for that quest set. This presents either a major, or a minor problem. Kind of depends. I haven't looked into how globals work, so I don't know if, due to them being stored in the DB, if you have to define them, before using them? Reason I wonder is, the easiest solution is to have a setting, which can be checked against, which if not found/set to false, will cause the code to treat things as "don't allow stacks".
This still means rewriting the hand in to make it work properly, both with requests for multiple items, like normal quests do automatically, and for stacks, when allowed (can check the same setting to determine if the handing in of a stack causes an immediate return 0).
Perl on the other hand is giving me hives. Feels like I am trying to code in regexp... lol Now, it seems that the variable that %itemcount gets shifted into becomes a "reference" to that variable. This is why 'delete blah->{blah};' works with it, instead of 'delete blah{blah};'. If you use the wrong one, Perl spits out a syntax error, in my tests. Now, the simplest solution is to do what I suggested before. I.e., decrement which ever one is higher, delete the one that hits zero, then pass the remains of the %itemcount back, once you are sure everything handed in right, so return_items can give everything back, minus the items taken. This means making a copy of the hash, so if you hit a fail condition, while doing this, we can simply substitute the copy for the current hash, then return, with it intact. Supposedly, its as simple as doing '%temp_copy = %hashref;', but since I already ran into a problem using the wrong delete, I figure it might be a good idea to ask if doing a hash copy with something that contains a "reference" to a hash, will produce a copy, or if its going to freak, because I am trying to copy the hash, not make a new reference.
I am so confused by the syntax conventions going on here... :(
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