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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bagal" data-source="post: 135809" data-attributes="member: 27764">Well, I'm not one of the devs but my answer to that is although it sounds like a good idea, practically it's not because you'd need to centrally manage the list of IDs.If you were writing a plugin, you'd then need to ask whoever managed the list to allocate you a range of IDs for your plugin and so on, otherwise you could end up with multiple plugins all using the same ID.I would think that a better idea going forward would be to scrap integer IDs and move to string based ones, so for instance instead of using a screen ID of 5678, it would be 'mypluginname' which is a lot less likely it would be duplicated. Of course this would require a massive amount of work, not only on the MP codebase but all plugins would also need to be updated, so I guess it's unlikely the current system is going to change.</blockquote>