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Novice Joined: 09 Feb 2002 Posts: 39 Location: USA

OK, in a PVP mud lots of things can happen fast, and if you don't react in the proper order, and timeing your dead. And one of the best way to kill folks is through attacks combos designed to overcome triggers and that confuse the player. Such as poisons, if you hit a player with two poisons, poison 1 makes the players hair fall out, poison 2 cause them to vomit. Well losing hair is no big deal, but the vomiting if not corrected fast enough can lead to rapid health loss, and refusal to sip potions. so that has to be healed fast. The prob, the cure for poison two, is also the heal for poison one, and you HAVE to wait inbetween uses of the cure. Thus, I get hit, I drink cure - baldness is cured, now I have to wait 6 seconds before I can drink the cure again to cure the vomiting. Now admist all this, I got hit again with poison 3, which causes my mouth to swell, now I can't drink. So when I try to cure the vomiting, I can't drink, so now I have to cure the hand, then cure the vomit. Hope you see what I mean. The laundry list can get VERY long.

What I would like to see. When you are hit by a poison, you get a unique message... i.e. Your scalp begins to twitch...You feel sick to your stomach....Your mouth swells shut. Thus I'd like to see each message trigger aplayer designated text message into a drop down menu. Thus by viewing the menus, you see what you are afflicted with, and in which order you were afflicted.

NOW the cream de la cream so something like that

I said drop down menu vice status window so that I can select that affliction click it, and it runs the command I set to cure the affliction.

I actually know how to do 99% of this, the part I have NO clue on, or if it's possible is to get the afflictions into a drop down menu??

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GURU Joined: 24 Sep 2000 Posts: 1237 Location: USA

You can do this with #pick.

I'll take coca cola.

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Novice Joined: 09 Feb 2002 Posts: 39 Location: USA

quote:

You can do this with #pick.

I'll take coca cola.

OK be a little more specific, how do I get the mud text/reply into the pick list AND in the proper order?

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SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

This can be done with a button menu, however you would have to create the menu beforehand and hence would be limited to displaying x number of afflictions. If afflictions can not be duplicated then a more dynamic route becomes achievable.
As for using PICK, something like this would be a start.

#TR {Your scalp begins to twitch...} {#ADDITEM AfflictionList {losing hair:drink rogaine}}
#TR {You feel sick to your stomach....} {#ADDITEM AfflictionList {puking:drink pepto}}
#TR {Your mouth swells shut.} {#ADDITEM AfflictionList {zipped lip:run pkunzip}}
#AL cureme {do some sort of time checking or run this with some trigger on some text you didn't mention that tells you you can suck another cure;#PICK {p:I am going to die.|o:1} {@AfflictionList};have to cleanup the list I think pick sends its command right to the mud so you will want to look at %action and %lastcom predefined variables in the help to decide what to remove from the list, or maybe some other text from the mud will hit a trigger to remove an affliction;set some type of timer variable or an alarm if more cures are needed}

Novice Joined: 09 Feb 2002 Posts: 39 Location: USA

you miss the key point here...

I want the list to be fluid on the fly...when I'm health nothing is there...as I get afflictions they are added to the list, when I click to cure it's removed

it has to remain in the order of which I was afflicted, for the cures to work right.

so not only is it a list of cures, like the button you suggest, but it's the list of cures ONLY for what currently afflicts me, not the over 100 possible afflictions

Dazed glazed and having fun

GURU Joined: 14 Oct 2000 Posts: 556 Location: USA

Then you'll have to remove them from the list as you're cured.

#TR {Your scalp feels much better now.} {#VAR AfflictionList %delitem("losing hair:drink rogaine", @AfflictionList)}

#TR {You stomach feels better.} {#VAR AfflictionList %delitem("puking:drink pepto", @AfflictionList)}

These will remove the afflictions after they have been cured.

Troubadour

Novice Joined: 28 Sep 2001 Posts: 45 Location: USA

Could you use a status window and just set up some MXP stuff on the stuff in the window? that might be a little easier and that way you can type stuff without having to use the menu

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