Jatopian
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Make an NPC with the following commands:

Appear
Wait for player to touch me
Speech "Player touched me once."
Wait for player to touch me
Speech "Player touched me again."

The intuitive behavior would be that the second line of speech would happen only when the player has bumped the NPC twice. This is not the case: Once the player touch event has happened once, subsequent such commands are virtually ignored and the proceding instructions are processed without waiting for another player touch.

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TFMurphy
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This has been brought up before.

It's important to remember that "Wait for player to touch me" holds true throughout the entire turn it's activated on. Hence, you should use a Wait 0 Turns command to delay the next wait until the next turn.

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Yes. The "Wait 0 turns" command is the DROD equivalent to the "root." thing that you see in languages like Action Script.

You need to use the command a lot, but it's too hard to describe where.
Adding it in seemingly random spots will make programs work. And, eventually, you will always be putting it in the right spots and never in the wrong ones. But even then, you won't know why or when you add it.

Except for the few people who actually do know why you add them in the places you do. But I generally stay away from those people, 'cause they're aliens.

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Chaco
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Actually, this is true for *all* events - if you want to wait for three monsters to be stabbed, you need to have your character wait a turn between those three waitings.

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Jatopian
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Well that's silly.

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So, how then would you ensure that a script only fires if Beethro both walks onto a particular square and stabs a monster?

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Mattcrampy wrote:
So, how then would you ensure that a script only fires if Beethro both walks onto a particular square and stabs a monster?

That could be done with nested if commands.

But, oh, would you look at that? In order to use If commands in a loop, you have to use Wait 0 Turn(s). It strikes again!

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Jatopian wrote:
Well that's silly.

Not if you want to check the same occurrence at multiple places. Just think of events lasting the whole turn (why should they be cleared after a they're successfully waited for?), and the "Wait for..." commands to finish immediately if the condition is already true when they're executed.

If you want several of them, you need to wait for the next turn in-between. Makes perfect sense.

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