bashing

Daebach

I'm creating my own bashing toggle. I have the script for it, except for one minor 'check' that I need to add.. Basically, when I'm targeting 'undead' and there are no 'undead' in the room, it spams out my bashing command until I toggle it off or I lose bal/eq. I need help with that first check..

Would it be easier to create a new variable and create a function out of it to check if target is inRoom or is there a different/easier way?

I think my example would be along the lines of..

local inRoom = function() <insert code here to check for inRoom> end 

then the check for it being like,

if inRoom then
    if bal and eq then
        BASH
    end
end

Oh, Mudlet user here.

Gjarrus

This is my 'in room' code (most of it anyway). E: Tags are stoopid anyway.

[code]

burn.select = function()

local target,shard = "",false

--contents is the results of gmcp.Char.Items.List.items

if #burn.contents > 0 then

-- mark a shard for harvesting

if burn.harvest_shard then

for i=1,#burn.contents do

if string.find(burn.contents[i].name,"shard") then

shard = true

end

end

end 

-- mark a mobile for killing

---Auto is dangerous af. Don't use it.

if burn.permit == "auto" then

-- just make sure not in exclusion list

for k,v in pairs(burn.contents) do 

if table.contains(burn.exclusion_zone,v.id) then -- do nothing

elseif table.contains(burn.exclusion_zone,v.name) then -- do nothing

elseif v.attrib == "m" then

target = v.name

break

end

end

elseif burn.permit == "limited" then

if not burn.targets or next(burn.targets) == nil then

local throw = ""

throw, burn.targets = burn.next_area()

end

for k,v in pairs(burn.targets) do

for i=1,table.getn(burn.contents) do

if burn.contents[i].name == k then

target = v

break

end

end

end

end

end
---threatCheck determines how dangerous the room is

if burn.threatCheck() then target,shard = "",false end

if target ~= "" and target ~= burn.last_target then

   if burn.announce == true then 

      send("say Kill the "..target.."!") 

   end

      if combatFocusEcho then combatFocusEcho("Targeting "..target,"target") end

 end

if target ~= "" then burn.last_target = target end

return target,shard
[/code]

Daebach

Thanks, I know how I can make the burn.contents table, so this really helps. 

Zyv

Worth noting is that you'll have to turn on CONFIG GMCPVITALSADVANCED after this recent change, in order to see your eq/bal in gmcp.

Daebach

Ya, I got that. Thanks for the input though! Might help others if they come across this thread and read as to why theirs is not working.

Eoghan

Balance and Equilibrium are always sent (not gated behind advanced gmcp) because they're also required by Nexus. This wasn't the case when I first put it in, but it was brought to my attention that I'd inadvertently broken that feature on Nexus and I moved them into the set that's always sent.

Tyanna

You can use gmcp to track mobs in room. If you're going off IH, don't bother with targetting undead, just use a database of approved targets and compare the mobs in room to your database of pre-approved mobs. The generic targets are good for manually bashing, but if you're writing something for mobs in room, just compare 2 strings. Can loop through and break when you encounter a match, then restart loop on a kill, and move room when 0 matches.

@Gjarrus why are you targetting shards and having that whole check? It looks like it's for an area sweep and harvesting, but you can do that more efficiently - try a separate macro (so you aren't forcing that if process every round) or just add shard to your target list and chuck in an if at the attack level (lower down, less called) that swaps in a harvest. You can also path find shard, if you want a harvesting bot.

Daebach

@Tyanna I was actually going to go with that and build a bashing database with it. I just have to officially figure out how to do that. I have some scripts I might 'steal' from other IRE games and incorporate it over to here. I was just using the 'Target Undead" as an example. But thanks for your input!

Gjarrus

Tyanna said:

@Gjarrus why are you targetting shards and having that whole check? It looks like it's for an area sweep and harvesting, but you can do that more efficiently - try a separate macro (so you aren't forcing that if process every round) or just add shard to your target list and chuck in an if at the attack level (lower down, less called) that swaps in a harvest. You can also path find shard, if you want a harvesting bot.

I'd have never made a dedicated shard harvesting bot (closest I got was using my looper to run harvest shard|path find shard|path go every 24s for uncontested falls, which isn't exactly efficient). That just picks up incidental shards after I clear rooms. It's also older code from the base burn I got from Iniar, and I was more focused on bug fixes and feature additions than optimization that doesn't matter much (especially when you look at everything else my system does)

Tyanna

@Daebach @Gjarrus - heh no worries. I was super loopy on painkillers when I wrote that. I'm graceful as fudge and tall as a giraffe, so managed to stick my hand in a ceiling fan.