averagemoe
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I propose a script command. A query that returns true if the threat clock is in the position indicated by the value of _MyScriptX, or whatever number the architect inputs to the individual instance of the command.

My purpose for suggesting it is so that a hypothetical scripted monster that's supposed to be influenced by the threat clock doesn't get messed up by speed potions.

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Xindaris
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Take my +1's. The existence of workarounds like "timekeeper" characters and characters that "watch" speed potions and set an "ishasted" variable or whatever does not change the fact that this would be immensely convenient to have.

EDIT: Obviously the integer in question should go from 1-60 to account for "half turns". Or, 0-59, whatever. At any rate, given the option between not having access to half turns when they happen and having a slightly confusing convention where we divide by 2, I'd choose the latter. But possibly someone else will have a better suggestion for how to handle half-turns.

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Terrible half solution from my terrible software engineer brain: use positive numbers to wait for full turns, negative numbers to wait for half-turns. So we have [1, 30] + [-60, -1] as the inputs.

Please provide objections before I do something stupid and implement this good feature request in a terrible (or secretly very good?) way.

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kieranmillar
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In that implementation would 15 and -30 always be equivalent, or would the negative numbers only be valid when the player is hasted, and positives only work when moving at normal speed?

If it was the latter it would give us a way to check the status of the players haste (checking if the threat clock is below zero would return true) but I guess might also add complications if you want to check the clock but don't know what the players haste status will be, but maybe that's rare enough to not matter.

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I demand the use of imaginary numbers to denote quarter-turns.

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Dragon Fogel
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It might work better for negatives to just be the half-turn after their positive counterpart. So -1 is a half-turn after 1, -30 is a half-turn after 30 (or 0 if you step on a potion as soon as you enter the room). This way, you can easily have a custom element that pauses on half turns by having it check if the threat clock is positive.

(Maybe even make that an option you can set in the interface for the command, for convenience?)