Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2844] changing maxplayers

[Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Carlos Y. Villalpando wrote:
> Quoting Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>:
> > if no one can think of a reason not too, I'm going to raise
> > maxplayers to just 32 instead of 36.
> 
> Hmmm.  36 was chosen since it was 0-9a-z.

That's what I figured.

> I'm too busy passing a kindey stone to remember why it was 36 as
> opposed to 32 other than that, at the moment.

Ouch!

> If you do change it, there's 2 places it needs to be changed.
> config.h.in and ntserv/defs.h And a full make clean; make is required
> in all directories.  The autodependencies are a little broken at the
> moment, and defs.h is pervasive.

There are several packets which use a 5-bit player number, so having players
over 32 is bad.  Since there is no reason to stay at 36, I'm going to change
it.