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Newbie Joined: 31 Oct 2005 Posts: 4

Hey guys sorry for posting another kill script help thread but I searched for a few hours and havn't been able to work this out on my own.

What I want to do is simply walk through a zone, manually, not with a path or anything, and instead of having to type kill bird, kill warrior etc, I want it to do it automatically. So I go into a room, and it kills all the mobs in the room. It would be nice if I could have a list of mobs not to attack too. Like if I go into a room and there is a mob that is in the lsit not to attack, it will kill the other mobs, and leave the other one alive. I am not worried about waiting for one fight to end. If it sees 4 mobs, 3 which are okay to kill and 1 which isn't, it simply spams kill mob1, kill mob2, kill mob3. I am pretty sure this isn't too complicated but for some reason I can't figure it out. Thanks guys.

Sample room desc from mud:

Coliseum Way
Smooth cobblestones line the wide avenue leading eastwards toward the grand coliseum that towers over the flat roofed buildings surrounding it. The faint roar of the crowds within the coliseum drift right over the top of the roofs, over the chatter of townspeople traveling up and down the road. Merchants with small carts trundle up and down the road with food and small souvenirs, keeping their eye out for prospective clients. The deep clank of iron meeting iron ring from the open doorway to the south. A small inn stands on the north corner of the town square.
[ Exits: north east south west]
A wandering citizen is standing here.
A wandering citizen is standing here.
A gladiator stands here, taking a break from the arena.

The mob descriptions often start wtih "A" or "An" or "The", but not always.

Novice Joined: 06 Oct 2005 Posts: 31

Hmm, simple enough, I'll try to help

First, create a class folder labelled whatever, in your case let's call it

Newbie Joined: 31 Oct 2005 Posts: 4

This is actually helpful thanks. One question though. It looks like there is an individual trigger to match each of the mob descriptions. Is there any way I can condense that into a single trigger that searches through a string list, with all the descriptions in it? Like instead of:

#TRIGGER {A wandering citizen is standing here. } {
k citizen
#T- @Current
}
#TRIGGER {A gladiator stands here, taking a break from the arena.} {
k gladiator
#T- @current
}

there could be a string list that had the contents like:

A wandering citizen is standing here.
A gladiator stands here, taking a break from the arena.
A person is here.
Etc
etc

Sorry I have a hard time describing what I need. I basicly want the trigger to match any of the contents of the string list, where I would have a list of all the mob descriptions it should match. If you can help thanks! Please ask if you need me to try to better explain what I mean.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

#CLASS AutoKill
#VARIABLE ConfirmedMobs {}
#VARIABLE Verbs {is|stand|sit|sleep}
#VARIABLE Suffixes {ing|ed|s|}
#VARIABLE TempMobName {} {}
#VARIABLE KillTargets {} {}
#VARIABLE LookTargets {} {}
#TRIGGER "MobCap" {~^[ Exits: *~]$} {MobList="";KillTargets="";LookTargets=""}
#COND {} {#IF (%line!="") {MobList=%additem(%line,@MobList)} {#STATE MobCap 3;#SET MobCap 3 1}} {looplines|param=30}
#COND {*} {#STATE MobCap 0;#ECHO Error in MobCap: over 30 mobs seem to have been detected.}
#COND {} {#FORALL @MobList {TempMobName="";#IF (%match("%i","{The |An |A |}(*) {@Verbs}{@Suffixes} ",@TempMobName)=0) {#ECHO Error proccessing mob name for '%i'.} {#IF (%ismember(@TempMobName,@NoKillList)=0) {#IF (%iskey(@ConfirmedMobs,@TempMobName)) {TempMobName=%db(@ConfirmedMobs,@TempMobName);#IF (%iskey(@KillTargets,@TempMobName)) {#ADDKEY KillTargets @TempMobName {%eval(@{KillTargets.@TempMobName}+1)}} {#ADDKEY KillTargets @TempMobName {1};kill @{TempMobName}.@{KillTargets.@TempMobName};#DELITEM MobList {%i}} {#ADDKEY LookTargets {@TempMobName} {%word(@TempMobName,1)}}};#IF (@LookTargets) {TempMobName=%word(%item(%expanddb(@LookTargets),1,"|","="),2,"=");look %word(@TempMobName,%numwords(@TempMobName))}}}} {manual}
#CLASS 0

That is about as far as I can get. Basically it does some parsing based on looking for text between an article and a set of predefined verbs. This is going to achieve the most likely capture of a given mobs keyword(s). Then it checks to see if it knows that text for a mob, if it does increases the counter and does the kill for it. I assumed a number of things: first that a blank line would follow the listing of mobs, second that the kill command would attack multiple mobs of the same with name.# format.

Finally what is missing is a way to distinguish items from the mob list, since it seems likely they will be combined there; and the format for 'look' output, perhaps even another command would be better, so that mobs can have the correct keywords identified. This might even cover the problem of mobs and items being listed in the same block.

As always this script was written off the top of my head, and is likely to contain a error here of there.