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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:22 am

Make Paths Enable/Disableable, atm, if you disable a path, it still shows in ctrl-s :(
Something that's bugged me since zMud, now way to have area-specific SW list using the inbuilt SW listing :(

Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:00 am

Good idea.

But, y'know, real men use the mapper ;)

Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:39 am

Real men use the mapper, AND the paths :P

#path {The Underdark} {rrun 17569}

Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 10:02 am

Don't need them if you've got the mapper. #Walk is much more versetile.

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

Real men have it all memorised

Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 3:59 pm

The problem with #WALK is that it is slow. If your target room is 50 steps away, #WALK will send 50 direction commands. Faster is to use the %walk() to generate the sw and then send this to the MUD (A more needful feature for the Mapper would be the ability to have the Disable all Portals checkbox be programmable via script).

Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:37 pm

Depends if your MUD supports speedwalking or not, really. Mine don't (you need to use slow walking, in fact, so you don't walk too fast), so #walk works pretty well.

Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 6:02 pm

Disable all portals can be simulated as long as you have a script manage all your portals. I am willing to share my portalscript if you want a copy, you should know how to contact me. Works with golden and non-golden chaos portals too.

I have "allport", "noport" and "gqport" commands, as well as a level/tier check on all portals with my portal-management script, and it allows you to assign easy keywords to your portals, so you can "port wow" for war of wizards etc.

Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:38 pm

I have 90+ portals and I am aware of the ability to simulate. My point is why should that be simulated when a simple function could do the job 1000 times faster? Here is the point: I enter a prison room... What would be preferable, issuing a function call to disable all portals or run a script? There is no reason why that checkbox shouldn't be programmable. I thank you for your offer and I will contact you.

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 4:33 pm

The original post is a good suggestion, so I've added it to the wish-list for a future version.

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:24 pm

I fail to see why being able to enable/disable all portals at once via script is not a good idea. I would have thought that such feature would be there as a matter of course.

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:28 pm

Anaristos: You have mentioned your desire to have a way to enable/disable all portals already in the past and it is already on the "wish list" for the mapper rewrite later this year. No need to bring it up again. It doesn't have anything to do with the original post in this thread.

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:34 pm

I apologize for my insistence. It's just that I never knew anyone had "heard" my request. Thank you for listening to me.