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Novice Joined: 25 Apr 2011 Posts: 32

Ok, I'm making a bot. I'm new to scripting and it's by far the most complicated thing I've done to date, but so far it's worked. Even the part I'm having problems with now worked up until about an hour ago, and I can't see what I'm doing wrong.

The aim of the bot is to kill things on a lake for leveling purposes. It scans and when I see another applicable mob on scan, it runs to it and kills it. Pretty standard. When I can't find one on scan, I walk in a random direction and scan again. This process repeats until I find one. It works great so far. An unfotunate side-effect of running in a random direction, which happens more frequently as I deplete the population of denizens on the lake, is that I tend to wander off of the lake to areas where there are no mobs I want to kill. Enless wandering is bad, so I made a thingy to set a point using my sextant, then walk back to that point if I run ashore. It was working, not it's not, and I can't see the reason. All it's doing now is looking at my sextant and reporting my relative postion via the alarm/echo I have at the end of the big trigger.

Fresh eyes or a more knowlagable perspective would be a great help.

Here's my script:

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:03 pm

Are you sure the patterns still match?
Sometimes admin will change them to throw off suspected botters.
Also I noticed some of your anchored triggers have a leading space.

Check for duplicate variables.

If all the similar triggers run the same code, you may want to convert that to an alias, and just have the trigger call the alias, to avoid having one still using old, bad code.

Also, using %1 in a pattern is not the most efficient way to do things.
You should use the pattern matching symbols wrapped in parenthesis to define %1 and %2 in the script section of the trigger.
#TR {^You are currently at position (%d), (%d) in *.}

Have you mapped the area you are botting in? So long as it keeps your location up to date, you could tell the mapper to speedwalk to a specific room.

Novice Joined: 25 Apr 2011 Posts: 32

Yeah, I've tried using the mapper before for something similar. It hated me. I was mapping out a big island and I took a look at the mapper afterwards to see how it was keeping up and it was a jumbled mess of rooms on top of rooms and pathways cross-crossing other pathways instead of a nice, flat, laid out map. So I gave up on it and decided using my sextant and the game's own coordinates was the best idea.

I'm a newb to all of this, still. What do you mean "(%d), (%d)"?

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 11:40 pm

%d will take the place of any positive number for the purpose of trigger pattern matching

Novice Joined: 25 Apr 2011 Posts: 32

When working with two of them, for (x, y), how does the script differentiate between the two?

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 3:07 pm

Its the order they come in, when pattern matching the first group of text surrounded in () is %1 second is %2 and so on.

So long as the string from the mud is patched my your pattern, they should already be differentiated...
I saw nothing wrong with the body of your trigger above, just this quirk of the pattern (though I only skimmed it)

Novice Joined: 25 Apr 2011 Posts: 32