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Newbie Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 3

So on my mud (LP style) when you enter a room you get a brief room name with room exits. After a new line there is a list of npc's.

Example:

South Wall of Amador [e,w].
Two Wall Guards are here.

Now i have it set up to walk around a simple area attacking monsters. My trouble is when there are more than one npc in the room. In this example there are two. What i need to do is to count how many npc's are in the room and subtract that number when one is killed. When that number is down to 0 the path will continue (#step).

So heres my trouble code... im new to zmud scripting but not new to programming.
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pattern: %1 Wall Guards are here.

#pause
%1=@temp_num
#if {@temp_num=~"two"} {@num_guards=2}
#if {@temp_num=~"three"} {@num_guards=2}
#if {@temp_num=~"four"} {@num_guards=3}
#if {@temp_num=~"five"} {@num_guards=4}
kill guards
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@num_guards is a variable with a default of 0.

I have a nother piece of code that subtracts the kills. It seems to be troublesome also and looks like this:
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pattern: * dealt the death blow to *

#math @num_guards @num_guards-1
#if {@num_guards=0} {#step}
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All suggestions are welcome... thanks!

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 698

#VAR cardnums {one|two|three|four|five}
#TRIGGER {&temp_num Wall Guards are here.$} {#PAUSE;num_guards=%ismember(@temp_num,@cardnums);kill guards}
#TRIGGER {* dealt the death blow to *} {#ADD num_guards -1;#IF (@num_guards < '1') {#STEP} {}}

Newbie Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 3

That didnt seem to work either, it just stops after killing the npc's in the room.

Some investigation shows the culprit is the variable num_guards. It was sitting at -2. The test was on 2 wall guards. It looks like everything got subtracted fine, just that the num_guards variable never added 2 up in the first place.

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 698

Whew, I knew better. Capitalization caused the problem. Also added prompt char to the beginning since in my tests, &temp_num was grabbing the '>' character. Sorry about that and try this:

#TRIGGER {{~> |}&temp_num Wall Guards are here.$} {#PAUSE;num_guards=%ismember(%lower(@temp_num),@cardnums);kill guards}

Newbie Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 3

^Worked great!
Im understanding the zmud scripting language faster than i thought. This is getting exciting :)