Yeah, I thought about that, but the main reason for having the clientver field is to correct an issue caused by the change in the layout of the AA window and the consolidation of improved AA versions. It would still be good to have a bitmask setup, but atm the only thing it would be good for would be for that it doesn't already do as-is would be to give the option to remove AAs from being sent to 6.2.
Personally, I don't think that there are many (if any) people who run current server code that are using the 6.2 client. And even though it would be nice to continue support for all clients, I don't really know if it is still worth the extra effort. And if we ever had a 4th client, that would just mean that much more work to ensure that all 4 stay fully functional with all updates. I am not saying that I think we should break the 6.2 client completely, I just don't think we should waste time on making sure it gets all of the new features we are adding in.
I also have my doubts that we will ever get a client newer than SoF, which is one of the big reasons I started working on it in the first place. A newer client would require updating the LS code. It would also mean we would need to be able to get retail disks for it, which I don't think SOE plans to do. I guess we won't know for sure until they release the next expansion probably in a couple of months.
That is a whole other topic in itself though. For the matter at hand, if someone wants to change it to a bitmask, feel free. I don't really know what all is needed in order to set one up fully, or I would do it myself.
Another point about not really need a bitmask for the AA stuff is that there will never be a scenario when you need AAs for 6.2 and SoF but not in Titanium. You will almost always have AAs starting in 1 expansion and continuing on through all later expansions. The one exception IMO is Titanium to SoF, since they consolidated AAs to reduce the number of individual AAs by combining improved versions with the base AA they are improving. This means that the number of possible combinations is really limited and even if we added more expansions, we would still not need more than 6 or 7 options. Bitmask is fine if someone wants to add it, but again, I don't think it matters that much.
On a couple of side notes; I played Live for a few hours the other night and made some AAs to help figure out how they are handled differently now. In the process, I found out about SOEs new 51/50 server, which starts players at level 51 with 50 AAs. I don't think that server is up fully yet (been locked when I checked), but once it is, I think it might help a lot for collecting what I need about AAs. Another cool thing I found out about is the new group button on the map that shows the location of your group members. I checked SoF on the emu to see if it was there, and sure enough it was. Not only was it there, but it already works! One more selling point for people to make the switch
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