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Beginner Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Posts: 21 Location: Ireland

Yeah, Im trying to modify his finished script for the Mud I play, but am having a little difficulty understanding it without the explanations in the original post. It seems the links to the original post are broken. Just wondering if anyone had a working link to it, or a copy somewhere.
Also, in anticipation of me being particularly dim-witted and still not being able to work it out, Ill throw in the output of my Mud if some kind hearted soul feels like taking a crack at it...

On typing flee, the mud reads

You panic, and attempt to flee.

If successful, you move to a random room adjacent the one you fled from, no additional message. Occasionally the attempt will fail, and you'll stay in the same room. This message reads...

PANIC! You couldn't escape!

Thanking you in anticipation...
Kaine

Wanderer Joined: 27 Jun 2001 Posts: 82

Well, what do you want the script to do? Do you want it to automatically retry if you can't flee? If so, this will do it for you:

#trigger {^PANIC! You couldn't escape!$} {flee}

Beginner Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Posts: 21 Location: Ireland

Oops, wasnt too clear on that. Just want it to do what Vrsoft's script did - move my place on the automapper to the new room.

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 1116 Location: USA

Okay, after you flee, does it automatically look in the room that you've fled to? If not, then the script will be a bit harder to tweak, but shouldn't be too bad.

Iljhar

Beginner Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Posts: 21 Location: Ireland

yeah, after a successful flee the room that is entered is displayed. eg

You panic, and attempt to flee.
Kaine's House
You have entered an elaborate figment of this poor persons imagination.
[Exits: n s]

Sorry about the lack of info in the previous posts.
Kaine

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

So, does Vrsoft's script no longer work, or are you trying to modify it because of something else? It would also help if you could post the script that you currently have.

Basically, a solution that I have seen for this consists in looking at the description (and possible also name and exits for greater accuracy) of the room you fled into and comparing this with the rooms adjacent to your current position (the room from which you fled) in the mapper. The one that matches, is your current position. In essence, this is just a #FIND but restricted to adjacent rooms only.

Kjata

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

VrSoft's script

I have something like that working at the same
mud where it works for me.

How did you modify it and what isn't working?

I would add an #ECHO to each of the triggers
so you could see which one fired when.

The you could figure out which one isn't
properly going off.

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Beginner Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Posts: 21 Location: Ireland

The way I tried to modify it was by replacing Vrsoft's trigger - "You choose a direction at random and begin to run..."
with the line generated by the mud I use - "You panic, and attempt to flee."
However Im not sure what to use to replace the other trigger he uses - "You flee from combat!" since there is no second line generated by my mud to tell you you have successfully fled - the room name, description and exits of the room I have randomly fled into is only displayed.

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

Try using the exits description to determine
that you had actually fled into the next room.

I believe I double mounted the possible
directions with the you have successfully
fled into the next room.

I haven't used that .mud file since I killed
Dusk :P If you are still stuck I go unarchive
it and see what I used.

TonDiening
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Beginner Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Posts: 21 Location: Ireland

Wow, you were Dusk? So can I believe that some of your unbeatability was due to my maps? ;) Heehee! Looking forward to kicking your butt when you become a LotP!
Kaine

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

er.. I killed Dusk with a CON surgeon. Dusk 6: Yui: 1

I couldn't roleplay such a mean streak that long to play Dusk :)

I'll unarchive that .mud file and see what I did.

TonDiening
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Beginner Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Posts: 21 Location: Ireland

Heh, whoops! Cheers for that, appreciate it.
Kaine

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

How about something like the following for all the triggers needed:

#TRIGGER {~[Exits: (*)~]$} {last_current_exits=@Current_exits;#IF ("%1" == "none") {current_exits = %1} {current_exits=%replace( %1, " ", "|");#FORALL @current_exits {current_exits = %sort( %replace( @current_exits, %1, %left( %i, 1)))}}} "System|AutomapperAll|Flee" {case}

#TRIGGER {You panic, and attempt to flee.$(%*)$(%*)$} {roomname = "%1";roomdesc = %concat( "%2", "|", %char( 10), "|", %char( 10));found = 0;#FORALL %roomexit( ) {roomdesc_map = %replace( %roomdesc( %roomlink( ,%i)), %char( 13), "|");exits_map = %sort( %roomexit( %roomlink( ,%i)));#IF (({@roomname} == {%roomname( %roomlink( ,%i))}) and ({@roomdesc} == {@roomdesc_map}) and ({@last_current_exits} == {@exits_map})) {found_dir = %i;#MATH found (@found+1)}};#IF (@found == 0) {#SH %ansi( 13)--> ~[ABORT~] No room matches found.;#ABORT 1};#IF (@found > 1) {#SH %ansi( 13)--> ~[ABORT~] @found room matches found.;#ABORT 1};#TELEPORT %roomlink( ,@found_dir)} "System|AutomapperAll|Flee"

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