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Wanderer Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 70

Two things:
First thing: does anyone know how cmud handles things like recursive aliases?

Say I had these triggers and this alias:

Wanderer Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 70

oh, and presumably there would be a trigger to remove someone from @BlindedMembers. I don't currently have the text.

Wanderer Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 70

nope, infinite loop.

Ended up solving by just calling the alias at
You cast Cure Blind

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

Why don't you use a for loop?

#for (@BlindedMembers) {cast cure blind %i}

Wanderer Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 70

because, this is a skill based mud. level 1 cure blind is not as effective as level 7 or level 10 cure blind. I might need to cast it 3-4 times, so I want to continue all the way until

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:22 am

Your class syntax should be correct - you might need to put quotes around the strings.

The problem with your recursive alias as it stands is that there's nothing inside the alias that'll limit its execution. CMUD will max out your CPU, running the alias over and over again - potentially hundreds or thousands of times before the message is received. There are a couple of possible solutions - you could use a wait (in CMUD 2) or an alarm. You could also remove the recursive aspect of the alias entirely and have the act of casting the cure blind spell run the alias again. That's probably what you intended anyway, yes? That the script will wait until the spell has been cast before attempting to cast it again.

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:22 pm

Why not the following?

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

Is there a message present when you cast cure blind but the member will still stay blind? If there is such, its pretty easy to do it with 3 triggers.

* is blind - add to list, try to cure

* is still blind - try to cure once again

* is cured - delete from list.

If thats the case, however, I don't know if forall is the best way to go.

You'll add a name to blindList each time you see the message "is blind". Then you'll try to cure first item in the list (first name in the list) and once that finally over, you'll move on. #Forall runs through all of them and unless you'll make some sort of counter or secondary list to variations where item didn't get cured, it may become tricky. So.

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:01 pm

EDIT: Ninja'd by prog. I'm referring to Charneus' script.

That script doesn't actually reproduce the behaviour of the script posted by the OP. His script casts on one person until that person is removed from the list, rather than repeatedly casting on the whole list. Perhaps something like this?

#TRIGGER {(%w) is blinded!} {#ADDITEM blindmembers %1;cureblindmembers}
#ALIAS cureblindmembers {cast cure blind %item(@blindmembers,1);#alarm +2.5 {blindcheck}}
#TRIGGER {(%w) is no longer blind.} {#DELITEM blindmembers %1}
#ALIAS blindcheck {#IF (%numitems(@blindmembers)>0) {cureblindmembers}}

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:04 pm

Your suggestion is a great one, Prog. However, it doesn't loop back through to check to see if there are more blind people. You may want to make the following change:

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

I kind of agree that going through the whole list first and then recasting any misses is probably the best way to go, but not with a delay. I think the ultimately fastest way would be:

#for (blind stuff) {enables the next trigger, then casts cure on the whole list}
#t+ a trigger that recures every time it gets the "you cure so and so but not enough" message
and a trigger (always enabled) that takes people off the list and every time it does that it checks how many are left--if no one, disable previous trigger (note that this should include "you can't find so and so" as well as "so and so can see, yay").

But I also get the feeling that I'm missing something vital about the game, can you really cast cure blind as frequently as you can enter it?

Wanderer Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 70

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

OK, so what else have you got to work with? (How many of these lines do you get, and what do they look like?)

- message when a player is blinded
- list of people who are in your group (so you don't cure The Enemy!)
- message when a player is partially unblinded
- message when a player is completely unblinded
- message when you can cast again
- message when you try and cast but the person you try and cast at isn't there

Wanderer Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Posts: 70

Here's what I've got so far: