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Newbie Joined: 02 Mar 2009 Posts: 4

Hey guys,

I'm a long time zMUD customer, but have never really used it for much beyond the basics. It's amazing what some of you are able to do, so I thought I'd venture in for some help.

Essentially, what I want is a "tank detector". I play a healer, and sometimes in epic battles with 10 or more players it's tough to determine who is being hit (besides the main tank). What I'd like is for some some kind of a warning, like: "Bob is being hit!", preferably output to another window. When I'm killing stuff, I manually put in the names of my compatriots into variables. Obviously, I only care about the players I've put in my variables (of course, I'd be open to any suggestions to improve the system as a whole :)

Like I said, I suck at zMUD, so I haven't been able to figure out how to do this in an efficient manner, without causing myself a ton of spam. The fight output looks like this:

Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 2:48 am

It shouldn't be too difficult as long as it's easy to tell what's an attack and what isn't - if they're all in the format "mobname's attackname hittype targetname [dealing xx damage]" then it's not too hard. Trouble comes when you start getting more than one word for the hittype (I remember someone posting a script for a MUD where they include stars and hyphens and all sorts, too) - dealing with all those different cases can be annoying.

The basic concept will just be - make a trigger that detects things hitting other things. Make a list of your friends - if they're the ones being hit, print a line somewhere. It's just a matter of how complex step 1 will be.

A thought just occurred to me, too:

Perhaps it'd be better for you to write a script that'll combine lines that're the same - I assume, say, that all three of those "a soul's punch" lines happened all at once? That makes it very easy, especially if there's a brief pause after each round - I assume there is, after the soul attacks, then you do, then the butcher does?

I'm not going to code anything until I'm sure about what's going on (especially because I'm not quite sure how I'd go about doing it yet) but this is the sort of output I'm envisioning:

Newbie Joined: 02 Mar 2009 Posts: 4

Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 3:24 am

I'd probably use some of the stuff talked about in this thread, with some colouring, to keep everything pretty. But if 10 people are attacking 10 other people and rounds come fast, that's not going to be much help - you're still going to get spammed, there'll just be less of it, with only one line per person per round. I dunno how useful that'd be to you.

Back on topic: if you have a trigger that works on hits, then you've done the hard work for me, which is excellent. All you need now is a system to stop reports for a particular person for an amount of time, which will mean changing your current #say OMG %1 IS GETTING ATTACKED line to:

#if (!%db(@DontReport,%1)) {#say OMG %1 IS GETTING ATTACKED;#addkey DontReport %1 1;#alarm +5 {#delkey DontReport %1}}

I'm fairly sure that's the proper way to do this in zMUD, but I don't have it installed any more and can't check. The idea, anyway, is that there's a list of players you don't want to report for - when you make a report for that player, you add them to the list. 5 seconds later, they're removed from the list and can be reported for again. You can adjust the timing however you like.

Newbie Joined: 02 Mar 2009 Posts: 4

Wow, that sounds awesome, and exactly what I need. I'll have to wait until tomorrow to actually try it out, but I appreciate the help. The stuff some of you guys are able to do amazes me.

Newbie Joined: 02 Mar 2009 Posts: 4

Thanks Fang, this does exactly what I need it to do.

Much appreciated.