Way I always saw it, If they're clever enough to create scripts to take care of all the mundane functions like sleep, drink, etc, and they're using them to train skills, hats off to them. Nobody likes training skills. :)
Besides, if they go on "Life Support" as we used to call it, (we had a whole system whereby a brother of one of our groupmates would log his character in, and had triggers set for each command, so, say we say his thirst scratching him, we'd nod at him, and he'd drink. If we didn't, we knew his jug was empty), they open themselves to getting attacked, unless, of course, they're at lower levels. What we did for this was disallow any skill to be trained past 80% until you were in PK range (ie, on our mud, > level 10). Aside from that, probably just going to have to have the imms keep an eye on it, if you really foresee it as a problem. -Crypt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 1:09 AM Subject: Re: client scripts > Pointers by reference: > Thank you, Michael. That's exactly it. > > As for the automation question.. the only way to break automation is to break > continuity. That is, make gold not load in the same spot, items, etc. However, > this is definitely not a fix. A MUD I once played on made heavy use of immortal > supervision; players who were logged on for abnormal amounts of time were > observed and queried to see if a live person ever responded. If not, the > character was either 'jailed' or dismissed from the game. > > You may wish to pose this question to the Mud-Dev mailing list. You can find > the list at http://www.kanga.nu/. They do have a copy of their archives which > are browsable, but I haven't found a method to search the archives. > > > -- Jeremy > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Barton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "ROM" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 11:30 PM > Subject: client scripts > > > > Does anyone else have a problem with players who over automate everything with > > scripts? > > Like, say, scripts that collect gold or items for them overnight while they > sleep? > > > > I'm wondering if anyone has figured out a way to break them. > > > > --Palrich. > > > > > > -- > > ROM mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom > > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom >
