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easal
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 Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:35 pm
Small q about stringlists and %random
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To give an idea of what I'm trying to do, my char can "doublestab" to afflict with two of a range of toxins on each balance. What I'm trying to do is set up stringlists of commonly grouped afflictions and semi-automate my offense. Right now I have a bunch of singleuse aliases that {envenom dirk12345 with bleck|envenom dirk12345 with blook}
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| #1 {%item(@kelpsoftlocktoxins,%random(1,5))} |
This would be sent twice.
where
@kelpsoftlocktoxins is a stringlist of 5 or so toxins I want to be able to afflict with. {envenom dirk12345 with ether|envenom dirk12...)
I've been wracking my brains on it but I can't figure a way to ensure that the second toxin chose IS NOT the same as the first. Well, a friend showed me a way that I'm currently playing with but it's pretty messy. Basically storing the first in a variable and comparing the second to it before the game command is sent, rejecting it if it's the same and just using %random to keep trying for a non-match.
So, I'm wondering if anyone can think of a rather more elegant way of doing what I want to do?
Thanks if you can help guys. |
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shalimar
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:46 pm
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If you remake the list with your alias each time its easy
#ALIAS pd {
#VAR kelpsoftlocktoxins {ether|bleck|blook|..|..}
used=%item(@kelpsoftlocktoxins,%random(1,%numitems(@kelpsoftlocktoxins)))
envenom dirk12345 with @used
#DELITEM kelpsoftlocktoxins @used
used=%item(@kelpsoftlocktoxins,%random(1,%numitems(@kelpsoftlocktoxins)))
envenom dirk12345 with @used
}
that would allow you to resize the list on the fly without rewriting as well |
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easal
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:48 pm
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Oh my... Yes, I like that very much!
Thank you very much Shalimar! |
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easal
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:50 pm
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Bah, dp.
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Vijilante
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:50 pm
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TempRnd=%random(1,5)
#LOOP 2 {envenom dirk12345 %word(%item(@kelpsoftlocktoxins,@TempRnd),%i,"--")}
Then store you list in the form
venom1--venom2|ether--something that|goes well--with ether|venom1--venom5|I think you--get the idea |
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easal
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:53 pm
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And that looks quite good too Vijilante... Thanks! I'll play around with both tomorrow and see which I use.
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easal
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 7:57 pm
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used=%item( @kelpsoftlocktoxins, %random( 1, %numitems( @kelpsoftlocktoxins)))
envenom dirk12345 with @used
used2=%item( @kelpsoftlocktoxins, %random( 1, %numitems( @kelpsoftlocktoxins)))
#if (@used = @used2) {used2=%item( @kelpsoftlocktoxins, %random( 1, %numitems( @kelpsoftlocktoxins)))}
#if (@used = @used2) {used2=%item( @kelpsoftlocktoxins, %random( 1, %numitems( @kelpsoftlocktoxins)))}
envenom dirk12345 with @used2 |
This is what I've ended up using for now. << I had to add the comparison thing to cut down on the number of duplicates.
I like your idea too Vijilante, and will probably switch to it, I just have 10-15 variables written in useable form already, and considering there's twenty or so toxins total, that's a lot of different permutations to count through.
Thanks all for the help. :) |
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ralgith
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:46 pm
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This would be better...
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used=%item( @kelpsoftlocktoxins, %random( 1, %numitems( @kelpsoftlocktoxins)))
envenom dirk12345 with @used
used2=%item( @kelpsoftlocktoxins, %random( 1, %numitems( @kelpsoftlocktoxins)))
#WHILE (@used = @used2) {
used2=%item( @kelpsoftlocktoxins, %random( 1, %numitems( @kelpsoftlocktoxins)))
}
envenom dirk12345 with @used2
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This way you don't have to mod the list, and it'll continue redoing used2 until it is different than used. |
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Safovine
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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:14 am
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How would you get it not to go randomly? Ive tried most of the functions in the help section that I thought might be useful, but I cant get it to work, everything I try just uses the first item in the string list, and doesn't move down.
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