Hi,

I've been modifying and testing my looting script, which is a never ending project, and was wondering if there was any advice on the following. I'll try to describe what I've done and what I'm seeing but if I'm not clear enough just ask.

The script performs a single finditem call to find desired items and places all of the results into an array for processing, ignoring, prioritizing and distance checking before proceeding(sounds complicated but I've worked on this the most and it's now efficient). In the past I noticed that since it iterates quickly to process all items it found it would occasionally miss an event property check on one of the items it found. To solve that I put the event property check into a repeat loop until it found something basic like weight or stone, words common to most items, until every item would be processed correctly.

I tested this extensively at live idocs and didn't find any issue with it until... I had a second account running on the same machine that was watching another idoc to get the fall time. That script was essentially looping to check for a condition change but the event property result of that script was being mixed into the event property of a completely different script running on the same machine. I know this because the repeat loop mentioned above would never finish, because the house sign had neither words in it(weight or stone). To solve this problem I washed the house sign out of the loop by adding the word owner and by slowing down the timer script to only check once per minute instead of continually. I eventually found it good to add the locked down check here as well to save having to do it elsewhere in the script, ie: locked , #spc , down not in yada yada...

Great, that should do it, or so I thought. All it did was move the problem over to the other script. If I am looting while the other is watching the sign check fails and at only 1 check per minute it risked timing out. I fixed the timeout loop to not be in the house sign check loop and solved that but it brought up some more interesting findings.

HOUSE WATCHER: If the house sign watching account is directly under the sign then the looting script(and entirely different script being run on the same machine by another account) considers the house sign to be closest and my looting toon begins to run directly towards the sign, even if it's on the other end of the map! It's fooled into thinking the sign is closest, lol. I fixed this by modifying the iteration to automatically ignore house signs... but it got me thinking some more.

Rails, if you have account logged on in Minoc and you want your character to run directly there from say the Britain pass you can make the minoc account finditem of something like an NPC or table or any item near it and have the other account move/pathfind to it. It actually works, assuming you don't get stuck on private steps or in someone's house etc, of course. The 18 tile range does not mean 18 tiles around the character performing the check, it means 18 tiles around any character that is logged in and has performed an event property. Theoretically it's possible to run rails over the entire map if a script logs in a 2nd account near waypoints.

Anyway, back to my question, has a solution been found that stops the sharing of event property results leaking into the results of other scripts on the same machine? It's not my script intentionally using namespace or globals that's causing the leak, it happens with none of that in the script too. How have others solved this sharing of event property results?

According to NASA people go potty and in space that's a problem - http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/nasa-issues-30-000-space-poop-challenge-to-solve-age-old-problem-1.3183232

Just curious as to how a bunch of scripters might approach the problem

My feeling is that you have to go with liquid undies! A pair of boxer like undies that "flood" the area with a liquid solution when you need to do your business and when done the fluid is circulated through a membrane until the waste is "flushed" away from the body and then all of the fluid is drained until you need to go again. The physics of water in space would make it ideal for this and pumping fluid would also work because of the elasticity of the undies pressing against the fluid... it would "want" to go wherever a pump let it. Oh, and you don't want to know about some of the other ideas being circulated that include things like actually having a device up in there... eeeks!

Are you happy to see me or is that a bidet in your pants?

 

Kid refuses to clean room, wants to play video games instead. Mom's answer...

Pros
- Can hold more items
- Can hold heavier items

Cons
- Require monitoring so a mongbat doesn't ruin your day
- More items doesn't mean better items, most idocs don't have more "good" items than 1 pack can hold
- Hold heavier items, such as full chests, but only a benefit from 500 to 1600 stones
- Not Fel IDOC friendly
- They announce your presence and, occasionally, generate hate(a concern if you plan an idoc career, getting reported etc)



Any other pro's and cons you can think of with using pack horses at an IDOC? I have always preferred being stealthy at idocs but took the plunge and wrote a packhorse control script that works great. 30+ IDOCs later I have picked up hundreds of chests I would only have looked in previously but of the 500 or so chests MAYBE there were 5-6 good items(worth 1M+) and a whole lot of common stuff. People tend to want to display their best stuff or it only works when locked down etc so a packhorse isn't needed for those. I'm considering going back to the stealthy way with a packhorse or two on standby(pet ball) if needed.

What are your thoughts, to pack or not to pack? I'll add a poll if you want to remain anonymous but share your preference(polls are anonymous right?). I'm posting this because I'm going to be developing my script even further to see what it can do but kinda need to decide on pack/no pack first What's your preference and why?

Heya,

Is there a way to have Razor log each character on, run a sript, and log off and onto the next character to run said script again?

I have a small script I'd like it to run for each character with RAZOR.

Thanks