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Beginner Joined: 19 Dec 2003 Posts: 15 Location: USA

I've seen some of the other replies for multi-line follow triggers, such as:
#trigger {(%w) leaves (%w).$You follow (%w)} {#move %2}

And that works for me - sometimes. My problem is, I might have 2 or 3 lines between the initial 'leaves' line and my follow line. My MUD shows all of my group members following then me. And I might be grouped with 2,3 or 4 other players. Could even be more, conceivably.

Example: (Thibor is the group leader)

Thibor leaves southwest.
Raven leaves southwest.
Gorbo leaves southwest.
You follow Thibor.

I know that $ is a line break but I'm not sure how many lines I might have to filter through until my follow, due to group membership. So how can I tweak the above example to filter through a varying number of people in my group?

Thanks all.

Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 5:15 pm

make it 2 triggers, so

^You follow (%w) (%w).$
#MO %2

as a separate trigger, and trigger to follow without the "you follow" part.

Beginner Joined: 19 Dec 2003 Posts: 15 Location: USA

I don't see how that will work because my follow line doesn't contain the direction.

Apprentice Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Posts: 141

You can use conditions or make a simple list containing the people
who left the room and the direction they went in. Then trigger on your follow message
to search the list for who you followed then move in their direction.

For Example

Edit: Removed my condition example it was screwing up in some instances

#VARIABLE followlist "" ""
#TRIGGER {^(%w) leaves (%w).$} {followlist = %additem(%2,%additem(%1,@followlist))}
#TRIGGER {^You follow (%w)} {#MOVE %item(@followlist, %eval(%ismember(%1,@followlist) + 1));followlist = ""}

Jesse

Wizard Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 1644 Location: USA

#TRIGGER "follow" {^(%w) leaves (%w).$} {#TEMP "folreset" {^$} {#State follow 0}}
#COND {^You follow (%w)} {#move %t2} {within|param=10}

This one works 90% of the time adjust your param= if you have more than 10 people in the group

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 656 Location: USA

You'll still have a problem is your leader walks north, comes back south, then leads the group to the west.

You might want to think about creating a db with 2 fields, name|direction.

Anytime somebody moves off in a direction, 1. check if thier name is in the DB, If so, delete. 2. Then Add thier name|direction to DB.

When you follow, lookup thier name|direction from the DB, issue the #move, then delete all records from the DB.

You may also want to add a trigger upon you moving into another room to delete all records in the DB.

Wizard Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 1644 Location: USA

Hmm Im not sure I follow you Talahaski

quote:
You'll still have a problem is your leader walks north, comes back south, then leads the group to the west

If the leader leaves north and you can't follow chances are there is going to be a blank line which will Reset the trigger so when he come back and moves again its all set up to go

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

Sounds good to me.
#TR {(%w) leaves (%w)} {#ADDKEY FolDir {%1} {%2}}
#TR {You follow (%w)} {#MOVE %db( @FolDir, %1)}

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 1:24 pm

lightbulb, thanks, that's what I was trying to get at but bwing half asleep rarely helps :)

PS - note, in a lot of muds that sort of triggering to follow is illegal (mainly pk muds)

Wizard Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 1644 Location: USA

quote:
PS - note, in a lot of muds that sort of triggering to follow is illegal (mainly pk muds)

How So?? All it does is update your position on the map when you follow someone :P Now maybe if it was a trigger that followed someone it would be illegal.

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 11:18 pm

that's what I means, on a pk mud, following someone via a client trigger is illegal, as some professional have a hunt command for this. client following negates the skill applied to hunt (low skill, lose them, it simulates full hunt skill on all professions for free)

Beginner Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 13 Location: USA

Well Sjleonard,

as someone who has played the mud that you play, and has tried to triggerhunt regardless of what the rules are...... this is what i have found.

When someone does a travel alias like 10e, or even when someone does a travelto, there is usually too much delay for it to work properly. However its useful when you want to kill someone in a small area like a city where you suspect they dont know their way ;)

Its only against the rules if you get caught doing it :P