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Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

I have a number of things coloured in the game I play. One of them is player names, coloured yellow(ish), using a trigger on {@whoList} to #CW $C08040.

Most of the time this works, but occasionally a player name will be coloured green, #CW $008000 (incidentally the colour I use for industries). I've exported all the settings to a text file and searched for every instance of #CW, and none colour a player name apart from the @whoList trigger. I've also checked through all the variables to be sure that none of the player names exist elsewhere that might be coloured.

Has anyone else seen this behaviour, or might know how to cure it? I've got the same mud file running for a number of characters and on two PCs, and they all seem to be doing the same. It's maybe 5% that gets coloured incorrectly, but it's a bit annoying, and very puzzling.

Edit: The same players are not always coloured incorrectly every time, even during the same session. So Guinn might be yellow 5 times, then green, then yellow again.

Guinn

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

Could the string Guinn be found inside one of the patterns for the industries?

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

Thanks, but no luck, I'd checked that. The values appear only once, inside @whoList.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Sometimes it's not the actual value, but the trigger pattern used. In addition, it could also be an issue of two triggers firing on the same line; since all active triggers are compared to the output to test for matches, it's possible that two or more are firing and occasionally one will finish the other while mostly it's vice versa.

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

I can't see where that'd be though, there's only one trigger throughout my settings that colours words the colour that's firing. No #PCOL or anything either.