Zugg Software :: View topic - is there a limit to the # of triggers ....

Wanderer Joined: 20 Dec 2001 Posts: 56 Location: USA

that result in the same action?

I have a list of about 20 spells i cast on myself. when I cast each one, I have it set up to "push" a button I have made (to track my spells), and I color the line a certain way upon successful casting of the spell.

I also have a similar thing set up for when the spell drops. the button gets "unpushed", the line is colored, and I do a "#SA" message, to the effect of "#SA Your sanc dropped!"

I do the same with maladictions. {You feel your strength slipping away} {#SA You have been weakened!!!;#CW 207}

so anyway, sometimes I notice the triggers don't "go". The class is active (I never turn the class off). The trigger "thingee" is not X'ed off.

It just seems taht sometimes the trigger doesn't "go", when it should. I've checked and rechecked. I dunno, but I have ALOT, was wondering if there was a limit to the number of triggers you can have.

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

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that result in the same action?

I have a list of about 20 spells i cast on myself. when I cast each one, I have it set up to "push" a button I have made (to track my spells), and I color the line a certain way upon successful casting of the spell.

I also have a similar thing set up for when the spell drops. the button gets "unpushed", the line is colored, and I do a "#SA" message, to the effect of "#SA Your sanc dropped!"

I do the same with maladictions. {You feel your strength slipping away} {#SA You have been weakened!!!;#CW 207}

so anyway, sometimes I notice the triggers don't "go". The class is active (I never turn the class off). The trigger "thingee" is not X'ed off.

It just seems taht sometimes the trigger doesn't "go", when it should. I've checked and rechecked. I dunno, but I have ALOT, was wondering if there was a limit to the number of triggers you can have.

There's no hard limit, but you might be punishing the processor by force-feeding it 20 triggers all at one time. If you do this, ZMud will be unable to apply changes at the correct time because it took so long to process.

Basically, you're limited by memory.

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

Wanderer Joined: 20 Dec 2001 Posts: 56 Location: USA

i have what I would consider an "acceptable" system though, a 1-Gig CPU and 128 MB RAM (win2k)

I would hope that would be enough to work a text based game?

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

It sounds like you have 40 different triggers to match the up/down phrases of 20 different beneficial spells along with an unspecified number of triggers to match maledictions. That shouldn't be any problem. If triggers sometimes fail to fire, there's probably some other reason, such as the phrase getting split instead of being all on one line.

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