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Apprentice Joined: 18 Sep 2001 Posts: 175 Location: USA

How can i make something automated to where it will walk to every room on a map i create then go back to the beginning till a trigger tells it to start again?

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Create a path that hits every room, and loops back to the start room. This ensures you best routing to reduce duplication of steps.

Alternate methods might include using %mapfilter to limit searching to a specific zone, if you have other portions to your map. Then creating a list of all room numbers. Using %walk, %pathexpand, and %numitems, to determine closest room from list, then issuing #WALK with the closest room. Repeat closest test and walk until room list is empty, rooms would have to be removed from roomlist by way of the onroomenter alias, or room scripts.

Personally I think the path is the better way to go, unless you want the route to change dynamically based on time, random factors, or other things. Those were the reasons I had written my own slow walker once, and it was very effective at throwing off people trying to follow me that I didn't want to. It is definitely far too much work to recreate it though.

Apprentice Joined: 18 Sep 2001 Posts: 175 Location: USA

Well I'm gonna be killing things along the way of walking slowly thru the very small map (15-20 rooms) and the way i got it now is an alarm for every 30 seconds to #step with the path.. but..sometimes it takes me longer than 30 seconds to kill something and the command will be sent to the mud throwing the whole walking path off course. Help plz :)

Beginner Joined: 01 Sep 2003 Posts: 19 Location: USA

I made an autoratter for a subdivision in Achaea. Sounds similar to what you have. I knew each room was limited to 3 rats, but the time varied per room to kill 3 rats.

It had a timer and a variable for each step. I set up a trigger to add 1 to the variable whenever I killed a rat. When the variable hit 3 it would force the next step and also reset the variable to 0. If the timer reached 0, it would force a step and reset the variable to 0. Each step would reset the timer.

If you know how many mobs there will be, then you could do something similar.

Otherwise, you could do a look or something similar to see how many mobs are in the room, capture the number to a variable, subtract from it when you kill a mob, and step&reset when it reaches zero.

Kind of simplistic, but it worked for me.

Beginner Joined: 01 Sep 2003 Posts: 19 Location: USA

Of course, an autoratter is illegal in Achaea, so I don't use it. I wouldn't want to encourage anyone to violate any MUD rules. Wink

Adept Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 228 Location: USA

Heh, Classic Recovery, *bravo*