Nuntar
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Blondbeard discovered this issue and asked me to write it up for him. "Wait for event <Player activates orb>" is triggered when the player uses the Portable Orb accessory. Semantically, one could argue that the Portable Orb is an orb, but practically from the architect's point of view this behaviour is almost always undesirable.

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mrimer
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Yes, this is by design. We could change this if it won't break anything.

Nuntar wrote:
from the architect's point of view this behaviour is almost always undesirable.

Why is this typically undesirable?

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(Sorry, I kind of forgot to come back to this topic.) It's undesirable because "Wait for event Player triggers orb" is generally used to test for the striking of a particular orb in a room. ("Wait for door to open at" may not be a suitable substitute; you may wish to have an orb scripted to do something, and not connected to any doors.) With the current behaviour, the architect must remember to program a separate check and abort the script if the player has used the portable orb; worse, architects may not know about this exception and so unintended behaviour may slip into holds as a result.

Conversely, I can't imagine a case where one would need a check for "has the player either just struck an orb or used the Portable Orb?", but supposing one did, it would be easy enough to test for the two separately.

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Okay, that makes sense. Any objections from other architects on making this change in a future build?

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Now activating a portable orb will no longer trigger the "Player activates orb" script event (rev 229).

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Can confirm in Steam v1.2.5.230 that using the portable orb does not trigger "Player Activates Orb" while striking a regular orb does.