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Novice Joined: 24 Jan 2001 Posts: 47

I play on a MUD where sometimes you need to swim. This can be in any direction (though I have not yet seen up or down): north, west, south, east, sw, ne, nw, se. When you try to walk somewhere you need to swim, you get a message that says "You need to swim to go there." or something like that, but it does not give a direction (boo, no simple trigger).

I don't use the Automapper, so apparently I can't use %lastdir.

Creating 8-10 new directions hardly seems possible... there just aren't too many more letters on my keyboard, and you can't very well use numbers, or combinations of letters (like if you used "new" for example, it would just parse to north, east, west).

So, what are my options here?

Apprentice Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 157 Location: USA

This usually works for me:

#trigger {^There's water ahead of you. You'll have to swim in that direction to make it} {swim %word( %nextdir, 1, "|")}

Then I can just go in whatever direction, either by typing commands or using keypad or other means, or using the automapper, and whenever I need to swim I do it automatically. Once in a rare while it fails though.

I know a few Aetolian places where you swim up or down.