Just Shoot Me Now

Ya could have figured by the topic title who it is - and you'ld be right! :-)

Once again the whole Mprog Oprog Rprog thing has me stumped.

I've looked at most of the examples of Mprogs in the game and still can't find one that does what I want to do.

Situation -
Player enters a room with a MOB in it.
Player Asks, tells, says to or whatever MOB about Dragons
"You say, Where does the red dragon live?"
"MOB says, The red dragon lives in the lost cave north of town."

How do I write the mprog to react to the KEYWORDS red dragon?


The other one that I still can't figure out is how to write a rprog.
Player walks into a room with no obvious exits - and no hidden ones either. The only thing in the room is a mirror. DO I put a real object called mirror in the room and write a oprog for it or can I simply have the word MIRROR in the room description, and if and when they LOOK MIRROR the mirror description would tell them to ENTER MIRROR and the mirror would then take them to a new location/room? How would I write that?

I guess I'm just a thick headed, to old to learn, dried and dusty dummy, but for the life of me I just don't understand how to write mprogs and thier kin.

-_- you got nothing outta what I told ya, huh, geez you should have saved the elevator prog from my mud that I showed you it did exactly what you asked...plus quite a bit more.

I thought I had it saved - I guess thats what I get for thinking though LOL.

Any chance you might email it to me?
Garaelb(at)kc.rr.com

if it's not too much trouble rob, could you email it to me too (theworldisflat@comcast.net)? i've been thinking about instituting elevators in my MUD too.

ahh, sorry been pretty busy lately, after disecting the elevator prog just tell me what you want and I'll make a quick prog for it, I was copy and pasting mine and it would just be plane confusing for you cause I have it broken and scattered over objects/mobs/rooms between the elevator buttons the elevator people , and th actuall elevator it self, but be specfic what you want ie do you want the prog to be object or room oriented etc and I'll make a basic outline of it and you should be able to learn from there.

Thanks again Rob -

1st)

Here is the room description for one room -


The south exit is the one they came from. The idea is that the player is to Enter the mirror and it will exit them in a different room.

2nd)
room description -



The idea here is like your elevator - wherein a player would press a button or in this case a glyph and would be 'magically' transported to another location

Glyph 1 = Darkhaven
Glyph 2 = Ellehcym
Glyph 3 = Korrinth
Glyph 4 = Drakmoore Castle
Glyph 5 = Stoole
Glyph 6 = Olfhiem
Glyph 7 = Sinibar
Glyph 8 = Thracia
Glyph 9 = Mount Ghoa
Glyph 10 = Meulerburg

3rd)

room description -


If a player mentions the word Dragon while in this room the Dark Patron walks over to the player and says "For a price I can tell you of the dragon which you seek"

If the player gives the dark patron 500 coins or more he will tell the player all he knows of the dragon. Any ammount less than 500 coins and the dark patron scoffs at them and says "you don't want to know very much do you?

Thats what I am trying to do :-)

I hope that is enough information for you.

mpedit <mobname> add speech 'red dragon'
then in the editor type what ever you want to happen