I'm having a hard time putting some anti-illusion lines in my system.. Particularly in the case of salves and purgatives..

Herbs are easy as the deafliction line does not come out even if i eat a herb.. for example:

True affliction

Illusioned
--0--0--

Now the problem i have as stated is with salves, mending, and health.. as they all give the same line



How do you do it? How does one determine what is what? although, i think relying on a variable would be fine.. but im theorizing that it is entirely possible for the health and salve to be applied successively thus confusing the system.

or what is a different approach? any pointers will be greatly appreciated..

thanks

A. You can ignore the "suffering from a severed artery in the left arm" illusion extremely easy by putting all your diagnose triggers in a class folder (or group) and only enabling the triggers when you actually send the diagnose command. Disabling it on a timer can be a good thing, too, just as an added failsafe.

B. When you apply health or some salve, you need to track that in a variable and use failsafes to reset your afflictions and a separate set of failsafes to reset the tracking variables. I recommend not applying more than one thing at the same time, just as you shouldn't sip more than one thing or smoke more than one thing at the same time, because you'll lose track of the action and might reset the wrong things.

C. Make sure you construct your trigger patterns carefully, so as to match on only exactly what you should. The most important thing is to anchor them at the beginning with ^ and at the end with $ (unless it's a trigger that cannot be properly anchored because of word wrapping).

The trigger pattern is not the issue nor the illusion i provided therein actually.. they are just examples i cobbled together..

but this is a good idea:



I'll try this..

Thanks

Contact me in game, I have some code for you.

Yeah, the way I do it is that I have a variable for every time that I actually try to do something, and another variable for when I actually do it. Then based on the lines that come out the variables are set accordingly.

The idea of enabling groups of triggers on certain events is still a good general anti-illusion/failsafe practice, even if your provided examples are quickly cobbled together.