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Apprentice Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 195

okay. I have a problem. My system to cut a long story short is being developed for herb curing afflictions

you know ... eat herb1 to cure affliction1. do not eat herb1 if annorexic. that kinda thing

well i have a nightmare of a problem. i wonder if anyone can think of a solution better then my idea

one poison, when used, gives you 3 random afflictions (although you do not feel the effects). and on the 3rd affliction you die.

eg.

*You get hit with the poison (but do not see it*
2 sec
your right leg breaks (but its not broken)
2 sec
you are now anorexic (but can still eat)
2 sec
you cannot breathe, and die

well my solutions are as follows...

1. the poison works where you get stabbed/shot/etc with a weapon with the poison on it. but you will see the attack.. but no affliction message

So on every attack without a poison to automatically cure it

- could be expencive
- uses up herbslots that i dont want to use
- easyly exploitable

2. every time i get an affliction (but do not see an attack DIRECTLY before it) eat the cure. this is because the afflictions with the poison do not have a 'youve been stabbed' or whatever just before them as thier kinda 'fake' afflictions

- will trigger the cure off other afflictions that are not attack based, like curses. so against a mage type it will trigger every few seconds. but not at all during a sword user

3. make a variable to set @possiblepoison = 1 when you are attacked but there is no affliction message.

Then for the affliction messages that follow #if @possiblepoison = 1 {then trigger the cure}

That way for it to trigger it has to fulfill both criteria.

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anyone have any different ideas? i just thought it would be something interesting to muse over :)

adam

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

Could you make a multi-state trigger that looks for the messages with-in a number of lines or similar?

If you detect a message and can discern it as not from another source, attempt to cure it?

This multi-state trigger would inject into you curing mechanism with a priority cure test?

Apprentice Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 195

thanks for your ideas. im not sure if within lines will work very well because multiple attacks could throw off the withinlines function..

however... i might try to see if i can get a few logs to recognise a pattern... it might be that you always see....

<> Prompt
<> Affliction

with no spaces or other outputs between the two. if that was the case i could just trigger it to cure off all afflictions within 1 lines of the prompt.. that might work a bit better

im not home right now and dont have mud access but once i try it ill let ya know!

:D