Well, this would be for any and all messages, not necessarily mobiles. It's been done in ROM and I figure it would be very useful when you have ~20 corpses disintigrating around you after a brief war skirmish. And it isn't just six soldiers, its closer to a hundred. Roughly, I'm looking for ideas on how and where to do this: add a new descriptor variable if its neccessary (char *last_output) and also a counter (int repeat_count). But I'm not sure what comm.c functions would need to be modified (as a rule, I try to avoid changing comm.c unless its to add some new update related func in heartbeat), process_output, write_to_output, etc. The changes would be along the lines of, checking the previous output with the current one, if they are the same, add one to repeat_count and move on, if they aren't the same, print out the old output and reset everything. Any ideas on a bit more detail in working with this? To go with Caniffe's idea, a method like the one I described above would be easy to arbitrarily set some limit of grouped messages, ie if (repeat_count > 3), etc. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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