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Apprentice Joined: 27 Dec 2001 Posts: 105 Location: USA

In my MUD, I play a guild that is responsible for a certain protection spell, called Iron Will. When my tank's Iron Will falls, I need a trigger to #beep me and #input the command to cast it at him/her. The problem is is that I party with numerous different tanks, and each one has a different message that they can change at any time. I set it up like this, but for some reason it won't work.

Alias name: tank_iw -> value: #pr tank_iw {Exact Iron Will fall msg}

Variable: tank_iw -> value: Tombslayer [party]: Iron Will Off!

Trigger: %quote(@tank_iw} -> value: #beep;#input {iw tombslayer}

Basically, I need to know how to make a trigger match a variable with special characters in it. I can't seem to make the %quote function work like it's meant to.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Fat Tony

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

Hint #1: You are the one casting the spell, so instead of asking each tank for the message they prefer pick one of your own and tell them to use it. (tell tank if you want me to cast iron will, party tell Iron Will Off!)

Hint #2: If special characters are giving you problems, write your trigger so it doesn't use them (drop the part of the trigger that has the special characters):
Variable: tank_iw -> Iron Will Off!

Hint #3: If attempting to trigger from variables which contain special characters doesn't work, move the portion containing special characters into the constant part of the trigger phrase:
Trigger: {@tank ~[party~]: @tank_iw} -> value: iw @tank

Hint #4: Drop the #INPUT and let the trigger do the command, as in the example for Hint #3.

Hint #5: I would guess that most people will have the words "Iron Will" or "Ironwill" in their message. So, just write two general triggers on that basis and have done with it:
#TR {(%w) ~[party~]*iron will} {iw %1}
#TR {(%w) ~[party~]*ironwill} {iw %1}

LightBulb
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Apprentice Joined: 27 Dec 2001 Posts: 105 Location: USA

Thanks for your input, but those wouldn't work. There are many variations of how different tanks can express it, it would be more effective if it is possible to match a variable containing special characters. I've tried every way I can think of, was just wondering if I missed something, or if someone knows how.

Fat Tony

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

Those triggers are pretty open as it is.
Lightbulb's triggers cover all your examples
to date.

Perhaps as you are offering the trigger
service they could express it the way that
will "work" (ie you'll cast)?

If you start opening things up more than
Lightbulb suggests you are open to being
toasted by a grief player.

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

As I said in Hint #1, you are the one providing the service so you can dictate what the tank must do to receive it. All they can do is refuse to tank for you, but if your service is of great value you shouldn't have any trouble finding others who are willing to do it your way.

LightBulb
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Newbie Joined: 10 Mar 2002 Posts: 3 Location: Iraq

First, congrats for making an awesome forum, now i might be able to learn a few things about zmud and make it much easier for me when mudding.

Second, amazingly enough i think i might know the mud this guy is talking about. Because there is a character in it called Tombslayer. If its the one im thinking about, the tanks all have complex triggers of there own which they wont want to change their automessages for fear of messing their own triggers up...

But in any case you guys are doing a great job!

Newbie Joined: 10 Mar 2002 Posts: 3 Location: Iraq

is it possible that this mud is case sensitive. ie. if the value for @tank is Tombslayer then your trigger will send iw Tomslayer to the mud instead of iw tombslayer which should work ?

Sorry im not a programmer so maybe someone else could offer a way to overcome this..