EDIT: Alright so...If I make an alias for this and want 'defup' to be the alias to execute the script, I put that in the pattern name?

Okay it worked...but it didn't. When I just had:
send("insomnia")
tempTrigger ( 1, ] )

it sends insomnia on an infinite loop.

Change tempTrigger to tempTimer?

And for the love of god, remove the extra spaces! You're violating PEP 8.

You would temp triggers for that:
send("defense 1")
tempTrigger( 5, ])
tempTrigger( 10, ])
tempTrigger( 15, ])
tempTrigger( 20, ])

This would send defense 1, wait five seconds, then send defense 2, then five seconds later, send defense 3, etc. The temp triggers are all created at once, so you have to make sure they're spaced out properly. If you put 5 in every one, they'll all fire five seconds after defense 1. This isn't the best solution, but's it worked alright for me until I found demonnic's chaser script. It's able to know what requires/takes balance/equlibrium and what doesn't. If you use it right, your system can do balance and equilibrium things at the same time. I don't know if he's made it available on it's own, but it's part of the influencer he wrote.

That worked! Thanks!

And I like my spaces, coming from Java I'm used to some very spacey code lines.

EDIT: Probably another easy question...is there an echo command? Or something similar?

I have it as a stand alone, though a lot of names and variables are changed around, since it was pulled from Stygian. It's basically the same code, but changed names and no debugging stuff in it.


Yes. echo(), cecho(), hecho(), and decho().
My own opinion. Don't quote me.
Echo is for just regular uncolored echos. You can add color, but it'd just be better to use cecho(), hecho(), or decho().
Best place to learn about them is from the manual, then looking at some examples on the mudlet forum, and in a few of the mudlet scripts posted on these forums.

Stick

showColors()

in an alias and execute it.

I'm amazed by these colours Way more than expected. Thanks!

Another question - how do I trigger something to fire based on my health/mana/ego? I have the code for how to determine when my health reaches a certain point, but don't know what to put in the trigger line or what the trigger is supposed to look like ...

You do not need to trigger much as the value can be called from the main system API, as per your usage of mm.stats. What I personally do ( assuming your PC is sufficiently fast enough, although this -is- Mudlet ) is to simply create a single trigger, the type needs to be set as a Lua Function with the contents on line one being:



Once done, just stick your code in the large box provided.

NOTE: You will need to add in a failsafe if you use this method. A simple variable will suffice.

HTH.

target = string.title(string.lower(matches))

The string.lower is rather redundant there. Personally opinion, I guess, though I just use string.upper for both instances.

Does string.title() do what I think it does? I wonder why I went and made my own function for that...