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Newbie Joined: 11 Mar 2007 Posts: 4

I've been trying to use #alarm to come up with a way to spam kill "insertenemyhere" for use in PvP or PK. I can get it to once per second easily with #ALARM "killenemy" {*1} {kh} with kh being my alias. I would like to get the alarm to fire every half second as it says is possible in the CMUD help files, but it doesn't say how. I want to be able to do this because once a second isn't quite fast enough to be competitive with manual spamming, with half second it should automatically stack commands which would make it virtually indistinguishable from manual spamming. I have tried *0.5, *1/2 and several other ways for a half second, but none have worked. If anyone knows how to do this, please let me know.

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:04 am

You don't actually need the * - without it, the alarm will trigger that number of seconds. So you can do this:

#alarm 0.5 boo

or whatever. I've never really understood why the helpfiles tell you to include the star at the beginning - to me that would imply that the alarm would run on the clock, for every time the number of seconds ended in that number (because the star would match any tens digit). You'd end up having an alarm that went off every 10 seconds.

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

Fang, that does not work. I've experienced his same quandary. This is what you get if you do what you suggested and type #alarm.

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:36 am

How bizarre. It works with +0.5, I assumed it would work without since every other number does.

Magician Joined: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 364

i use alarms with +.01 all the time.

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

This error is with the *. I really don't know what sort of limits apply to the +. Alarms where you do not put a + are automatically made into alarms with the * even if you do not explicitly use it.