On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, John Evans wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Wesley Fonvergne wrote:
>
> > This is a really stupid question, but here goes...how would I put
> > something on a timer. This goes along with the invasion stuff...say I use
> > my siege command, and siege a city. How to make it actually call some
> > function...start_invasion, for instance, in like 3 or 4 minutes?
> >
>
> I've never done it in response to similar questoins, the answer has always
> been. Check out the event code. I guess it's availble in the contrib
> directory of ftp.circlemud.org.
>
> John Evans <evansj@hi-line.net> -- http://www.hi-line.net/~evansj/
>
> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
> --Arthur C. Clarke
Have do_siege create an item of type corpse with the name of "siege
counter", short desc"city" with a timer of 3 or 4 in limbo. Where it says
that stuff agout a quivering horde of maggots, put in a check for if the
name is "siege counter", if it is, pass short_desc to start_invasion.
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Just an idea.
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