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Adept Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 226

Ok, I have a group spell script that I've been working on, and from what I can see looking at it, it should work perfectly, but for some reason it will sometimes get behind or not fire at all. Here it is below:

Newbie Joined: 04 Apr 2005 Posts: 3

#TRIGGER "groupbless" {(%w) group-says ~'bless~'$} {
#ALARM +.1 {
#VAR groupweave 1
bless %1
}

I would probably rewrite it to use %push() and %pop() to push and pop the requestor and spellnames from a stack. Also, you should consider consolidating the triggers to a single trigger such as:
{(%w) group-says ~'({haste|ii|air|shield|knock|armor|heal|fa|dest|armor|sust})~'}
%w here becomes %1 and the variable list becomes %2

If you do the {}'d list uses the items separated by the | symbol to check each one as a possble match for the trigger. Including the ()'s on the outside of the {}'s allows the matching result to be passed along as a variable.

So matching your setup you get:
#TRIGGER "grouparmor" {^(%w) group-says ~'({haste|ii|air|shield|knock|armor|heal|fa|dest|armor|sust})~'$}
#ALARM +.1 {
#VAR groupweave 1
%2 %1
}

For security, I generally create a setup that sets a variable array for my groupmembers, then instead of matching against (%w) I match it against ({@mygroup}). The MUD I play on allows abuse of poorly written scripts :)

Hope any of that is useful.

Adept Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 226

Hrmm.. thanks for the input, since posting this I've already done the @mygroup thing :) But the other things don't really help with my problem, as far as I can see. I have separate triggers for each of the group spell commands because I want to be able to turn them on/off individually, depending on who I'm grouped with. If several of us in the group have a haste trigger, for instance, we don't want them all going off every time someone group-says haste. And the %push and %pop.... I'll look into those, but I don't think it'll help much with my current problem.

I think I may need to explain exactly what I want to do here. I'm trying to make it so that I have a repeat system that does not try to repeat every weave I do, but only those asked for by a groupmember. And since often I'll often send commands for several weaves at once, as in example below, I need to keep track of them:

weave 'bless' me
weave 'war chant'
weave 'aid' me
Ok.
You feel righteous.

<353H 470M 57V 1X 18:06:43 88S 156E> Ok.
You begin a low, rythmic chanting.

<353H 446M 57V 1X 18:06:45 88S 156E> Ok.
Your weave begins to warp and crumbles!

I need to keep track of which ones failed and whether those that failed were ones that a groupmember asked for, and thus needing to be recast, and on their failure, send the command to try again.