Very strange! Tried on multiple browsers and computers. Nada.

Okay, bit silly but I figured it out. It turns out that the maximum range you can see other peoples' overhead text is 9 tiles, which is much shorter than I thought, and they're actually just spamming guards constantly. This makes it appear as if they just started talking when you get in range -_- Terrible quality video to illustrate lol: https://i.imgur.com/tgjaOEd.mp4

I was stealthing around Fel Delucia to check on people farming eggs and I came across a group that is obviously scripting, but what threw me for a loop is they instantly start spamming guards when I get within a certain range and stop the moment I step away despite being in stealth the whole time... Is there some clever way to detect stealthed people that isn't tracking? It's too instant to be that and I tried polymorphing to a monster and didn't make a difference.

Editing to add: There doesn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary in their backpacks. They're putting their loot inside a trapbox and i notice they are periodically setting the trapbox off for some reason. Also, tried hiring an NPC and walking it near them and that does not trigger the behavior. Range of detection is 9 tiles.

Yeah, salute is great as long as you're not mounted or in animal form.

In Orion, you can use Timer or I usually just use Orion.Now() + 300000 and then check it against Orion.Now()

var endTime = Orion.Now() + 300000;
while(true)
    {
    if(Orion.Now() > endTime)
        {
        Orion.EmoteAction('Salute');
        endTime = Orion.Now() + 300000;
        }
    Orion.Wait(100);
    }

Necroing a thread a bit, but figure I'd throw in a solution for this for anyone looking. In JavaScript there's a few options for changing a string to an integer. Number('1') and +'1' both work pretty much identically.

As for actually grabbing the durability values, RegEx is the way to go.

function DurabilityTest()
    {
    Orion.WaitForAddObject('myTarget');
    Orion.Print(GetDurability('myTarget'));
    }

function GetDurability(objSerial)
    {
    var obj = Orion.FindObject(objSerial);
    var durabilityArr = obj.Properties().match(/Durability (\d+) \/ (\d+)/) //evaluates to e.g., ['Durability 250 / 255', '250', '255'] OR null if match isn't found
    if(!durabilityArr) //if a match isn't found returns false
        return false;
    var minDurability = +durabilityArr[1]; //convert string to int
    var maxDurability = Number(durabilityArr[2]); //convert string to int
    return [minDurability, maxDurability]; //e.g. [250, 255]
    }

Here's a little snippet I put together to verify the total amount of teleport charges in a bag full of teleport rings. Can be used in the trade window!

function TeleportChargeCounter()
    {
    Orion.CharPrint(self,1159,'Target container full of rings')
    Orion.WaitForAddObject('myTarget');
    var container = Orion.GetSerial('myTarget');
    while(!Orion.GumpExists('container', container))
        {
        Orion.UseObject(container);
        Orion.Wait(1300);
        }
    var rings = Orion.FindTypeEx(any,any,container).filter(function(ring)
        {
        return Orion.Contains(ring.Properties(), 'Ring') && Orion.Contains(ring.Properties(), 'Teleport Charges:')
        });
    var charges = rings.reduce(function(sum, current)
        {
        var currentCharges = +((current.Properties().match(/Teleport Charges: (\d+)/) || [])[1] || 0);
        return sum + currentCharges;
        }, 0);
    Orion.Print('Total charges: ' + charges);
    Orion.Print('Average charges per ring: ' + (charges/rings.length));
    }

Well met, I go by Ali. I've played UO off and on since I was about 8 years old when my older brother allowed me to make a character on his account in '99. I created my own account shortly after AoS released. My brother stopped playing at that time and gave me his account and both of these accounts are my mains to this day! If only I had kept their subscriptions active the entire time, I'd have some shard shields lol

I played pretty heavily from 2002-2009 on Sonoma and Pacific. I was living at home with my parents and used dial-up internet most of the time, but occasionally I'd visit a relative or a friend with broadband and it was like a super power! I took a fairly long break after I graduated high school all the way up until 2020 during the pandemic; I logged into my main account on OSI as Endless Journey just to poke around and relive some nostalgia and someone approached me purely by chance at Luna bank and said they liked my name and invited me to their guild. I was inducted in and have met plenty of awesome friends who have kept me engaged with the game! I honestly didn't expect I'd still be playing UO now nearly 3 years after coming back, but as they say, you never really quit UO, huh?

As for my interest in ScriptUO and scripting UO in general, I'm no stranger to automating things in the game, it's probably 80% of my enjoyment of the game at this point lol. My main focus has always been focusing on QoL scripts and automating various resource gathering. I also love PvP, but it's one of the few aspects of the game that I refrain from automating, preferring to actually press buttons to smack people around . I used EUO primarily back in the day (I see some familiar names around these forums, though I'm not sure what username I went by on the EUO site back then), but have gotten into Orion primarily which finally gave me some motivation to become competent with JavaScript. I had a lot of free time these past couple years and it was a lot of fun teaching myself how to use Orion's scripting engine and solving the unique problems that arise in this game.

I'm active in the Orion Discord with the same username and love to help people however I can. The Discord format isn't the greatest as a script repository, so I sought out an active forum and landed here! I hope to make some helpful contributions to ScriptUO's Orion script library! Thank you for having me!