Change the type of Session.Counter.Value to BigInteger

[grog398]

I am planning on implementing this myself

Yes

Describe your request

For a certain project I'm working on, I am using session counters that will very quickly go above the 32 bit integer limit. For the purposes of this project, it's important that I have the ability to store an arbitrarily large number. Currently, the only feasible way I could see of making this work while maintaining mod interoperability is to directly patch the class itself.

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[microlith57]

this would be useful, but would also break all mods that use counters currently, which seems like a bad idea.
you could implement it using two sets of methods (the current ones using int and clamping, and new ones using a different type); but that could get janky and unintuitive.
finally, i'm not that happy with BigIntegers being the default type, since they have more overhead, an arbitrarily large size in memory / on disc, probably worse serialization, and are not a type that's used anywhere else in celeste.

as such, i would recommend implementing this as a mod feature (perhaps along with double sliders) rather than in Everest itself.

[microlith57]

cc @JaThePlayer for comments also