Dying Flutchman
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Many architects have built custom tokens of some sort. However, it's impossible to get them to behave like normal tokens:
1) You need

imperative ghost-display

to be able to step on them, but then you can't right-click to see what the token is (this is difficult when there's several different tokens present).
2) You have to manually set which entities trigger the token, and you would like sensible behaviour like triggering tokens several times in a row when entities are swapped with other entities (e.g. Beethro moves off, mimic moves onto token). It's possible to code this to some extend, but it inevitably breaks down at some point, for instance when a clone switches to Beethro using TAB, the occupation state of the token changes where it shouldn't, and when one mimic is swapped for a different mimic, the occupation state stays the same while it should actually change.

I'd love to have the option to set correct token behaviour with

imperative token

, such that I only would have to mess around with what the token actually does. Natually, this imperative would have to come with something like

Wait for someone to toggle me

and perhaps custom tokens should even respond to the

activate item at...

command.

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[Last edited by Dying Flutchman at 04-27-2020 11:07 AM]

hyperme
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This isn't something that can really work, because NPCs are monsters. Several properties of tokens are due to them being T-layer objects, which are interacted with in completely different ways.

Really, the best hope for better custom tokens are imperatives/behaviours that allow for Ghost Display Tooltips. The toggling behaviour is something that's a lot trickery to solve, since DROD currently doesn't have a way of determining if two monsters of the same type are different entities.

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skell
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Imperative token is certainly not going to be implemented unless some big changes in the game logic are made (specifically, adding hooks to scripts which execute in the middle of something happening elsewhere in the room, kinda like in RPG for fighting).

What we could potentially add is a "Custom" token, and an accompanying command "Wait for custom token to activate at...". The way it would work would be that the token would remember being activated even if whatever moved on top of it was pushed off or killed on the same turn.

I am not really sure how useful such a feature would be for you but if anything it has the possibility of being implemented.

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Xindaris
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"Custom" token would be excellent, honestly. Just something that fixes the various problems making current "custom token"s not behave or really even look like real ones in terms of layering would be pretty neat. Preferably it would be something created by a drodscript command which includes a place to put an image so that multiple different custom tokens can exist in the same room at once.

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