Reserved USER# Stat Number range

[Xaser]

Assigning custom stat numbers to thinkers can be useful for certain things, but there's one rather important caveat:

Right now there is no guaranteed range of user-reserved numbers so you may be shooting yourself in the foot by arbitrarily assigning a free number to your thinker.

So, let's reserve some. Something like ten or so declared STAT_USER# statnums ought to do the trick.

If we want to get super-fancy, perhaps have one reserved range before STAT_DEFAULT (and another before STAT_FIRST_THINKING so there are "don't tick" options available) so folks get more control over the execution order, but I'll let you all hash this part out.

[Major Cooke]

Side question, which comes first? Lowest numbered (32 on up) or highest numbered? I'm assuming lowest since custominventory does its thing in a snap with pickup and use states.

But yes, I agree on this. If the aforementioned is such a case, I think a set of ranges before and after the traditional thinker would be of great boon -- even if I was mistaken in terms of optimization, it can still be quite useful.

[Graf Zahl]

Lowest numbered come first. Trivia: Originally STAT_DEFAULT was the highest possible number, that only got changed when it became obvious that some things need to tick after all in-game actors to avoid undefined behavior.