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Wanderer Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 86

say i have 3 variables,
#VAR fruit {apple|banana|pear|mango}
#VAR animal {dog|cat|donkey|monkey}
#VAR flower {rose|tulip}

how do i set it up such that when i walk into a room and see, "An Apple." i will do 'kill fruit'
or when i see 'Dog', to kill animal? etc...

thanks!

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

Try

Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 2:57 pm

Prognoi's on the right track, but since you specifically stated that the name of the variable be used instead of the same of the item, it might be best to separate that into more than one #if:

Wanderer Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 86

ok thanks.

what if, i walk into the room and see this:
An Apple.
A Dog.

is there anyway to 'kill fruit', then 'kill animal' after fruit is dead?

Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 6:36 pm

You could load them into a list using #additem or %additem (check the help for usage) instead of just sending the kill command. Then you have a trigger that fires on a message you recieve after the mobs in the room, or uses a short alarm like +0.5 to wait until the list's been populated, then use %pop to get an item and kill it. It'd look something like this, assuming you use the automapper:

#event onroomenter {moblist="";#alarm +0.5 {killsomething}
#trig #trigger {^{An|A} (%w).$} {#if %ismember(%1,@fruit) {#var moblist %additem(fruit,@moblist)};#if %ismember(%1,@animal) {#var moblist %additem(animal,@moblist)};#if %ismember(%1,@flower) {#var moblist %additem(flower,@moblist)}}
#alias killsomething {#if (@moblist) {kill %pop(@moblist} {#say all mobs dead!}}
#trig {(%w) dies.} {killsomething}

Wanderer Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 86

awesomely fast reply. thanks.. this makes sense. i'll try it out...

Newbie Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 3

What if you're trying to prioritize the order in which you kill the mobs in the room. For example, If I walk into a room and see:

A teddy bear guard is here, trying to act tough.
A porcelain servant is here, trying to clean up everything on the floor.

The Bear is agro, and the servant is not. I want to kill the bear first. I have been trying to accomplish this by creating triggers for the mobs in question to populate 2 different variables, @agro and @peaceful with the name of the mob using the #additem command like this...

Pattern: A porcelain servant is here, trying to clean up everything on the floor.
Value: #var peaceful %additem( "servant", @peaceful)

Then trying to use triggers containing #IF and %pop to prioritize which is killed first. I've had next to no success. I've been working on this for some time now and am basically out of ideas. How would you go about doing what I'm trying to do?

Thanks in advance for your time and attention.

Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 12:59 pm

Like all good problems, there are a couple of ways to do it. Some of them are slower to execute than others - two lists sounds like possibly the easiest way.

#var PriorityMobs {bear|haddock|clam}
#trig {whatever} {#if (%ismember(%1,@PriorityMobs) {#addkey RoomMobs Aggro %additem(%1,@RoomMobs.Aggro)} {#addkey RoomMobs Peaceful %additem(%1,@RoomMobs.Peaceful)}}
#alias killsomething {#if (@RoomMobs.Aggro) {kill %pop(@RoomMobs.Aggro)} {#if (@RoomMobs.Peaceful) {kill %pop(@RoomMobs.Peaceful)} {#say nothing to kill}}}

Also, small change to the script in the post above - this is a zMUD question so you need to use #alias onroomenter {} instead of #event onroomenter {}.

Newbie Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 3

Ok...now I need to go read the help files to know what all that means. Some of it I recognize and understand and some I dont, but I'll get it. Thanks again!