Correction, dak's patch does something completely different.
"I would suggest an event system," says Belgarath, lamely, trying to avoid
looking idiotic.
-B.
At 06:49 PM 8/6/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Your way is one possible method. The other is to get dak's "Mana Drain"
>patch, available at George's web site (http://www.van.ml.org/CircleMUD).
>
>BTW, I've found that it helps to completely go through your code idea on
>paper before attempting to code it. Leaves less loopholes in the code,
>also lets you decide if you want to go through with it before you've got a
>jumbled mess of code.
>
>Just a thought.
>-B.
>
>*Note. As soon as DG Scripts PL5a is released, I will update the OLC+
>package. I haven't as of yet as I've been sick, off the list due to ISP
>problems, and going to funerals. Anyway, bubye.
>
>At 09:26 PM 8/6/98 EDT, you wrote:
>>I am thinking of a way to add 'casting times' to spells. Where they type
cast
>>and it takes a certain duration before the actual completion or failure of
>the
>>spell, instead of all spells being instantaneous. I don't really know
>where to
>>start, I was thinking of creating ch->player.casting, to the current spell
>>number being cast and then 1 second refresh to check if duration is complete
>>if so send ch->player.casting to the spell parser =/ But thats just a basic
>>idea ... any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>>Okay,
>> JinX
>>
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