Sincleanser

Is there any interest in organizing the item IDs in the XML Editor to fit more appropriately?

Such as all the pistols are grouped together, then shotguns, then rifeles, ect?

Why would you want to do that? I'll admit that I'm not all that savvy so I don't know exactly what would be possible to accomplish then, that's not already possible now. All that I can see that it'd lead to is that it'd be easier to find stuff in the Map Editor. The XML Edtior can already order things in a variety of ways by simply clicking on the tab you want stuff sorted by. Sorting weapons by Weapon Type would for example only take a simple click on the correct tab.

Smeagol used an identification rework by alphabetical tags in the XML editor. There are loads of stuff that were not reworked because the original items mod was added too through many different modders.

cant hope for something big (like using Crysis engine for ja2, duh) so i'd go with new attachment and detailed magazine system.

this is just what i've been thinkin:
1. weapons are no longer restricted to their magazine, so magazine capacity varies based on the magazine you insert INTO the magwell (a specific area in the new attachment system), in another word the magazine is an attachment as well;

2. detailed magazine's gonna be like keychain, right click, and you find each individual cartridges it contains and switch them around. for example, for linked ammo belt you can set up for tracer, ball x 4 then tracer; for shotgun, you may go for lockbuster then 00 buck x 4, etc etc. you may do this mannually or with certain key combo.

if that's too far fetched, my second choice will be big maps....scale up the current map so each tread is no longer 10 meters.