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manikus 07-23-2009 09:40 PM

Re: Chain Events for everyone
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul Stevens (Post 1232487)
Is there some prose we can add to the
Chain Event Dialog that will make things
more nearly clear?

Excellent idea. It could be something to the effect:
"If the conditions for the Chain event to occur are met, any events in the "Chained Events" branch will occur (if conditions for individual events are met), else, any events in the "Normal Chain" will occur (if conditions for individuals events are met).

That seems wordy and contains a bit of obvious stuff, but for a completely new user that might be necessary.

If anyone can reword this and still retain the meaning and warnings, that would be greatly appreciated.

olivier_leroux 07-23-2009 09:49 PM

Re: Chain Events for everyone
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by manikus (Post 1232498)
That seems wordy and contains a bit of obvious stuff, but for a completely new user that might be necessary.

Ah, of course, I didn't think about that. For newbies that would be a great help.

So, er, ADDITIONALLY to adding extra instructions, I'd recommend to tune DC so that it always sets the event conditions back to default ("Always") for every new event. :givingspeech:

manikus 07-23-2009 09:52 PM

Re: Chain Events for everyone
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by olivier_leroux (Post 1232497)
So, instead of adding extra instructions, I'd recommend to tune DC so that it always sets the event conditions back to default ("Always") for every new event.

The only issue with this, is that they are the way they are because users earlier on requested that CocoaSpud do this.

JonnieR 07-23-2009 10:00 PM

Re: Chain Events for everyone
 
Manikus, Oliver and Group,

I went back and reset the condition on the initial chain to "If event doesn't happen" and it worked. When you come from the North it reads "Chained Event" and when you come from any other direction (E, W or S) it reads "Normal Chain".

This like using a calculator with reverse Polish notation or Superman in Bizzarro World, but I can live with this.

manikus 07-23-2009 10:04 PM

Re: Chain Events for everyone
 
I don't think it is working right yet, though.

In my example, aside from the Chain events, all other events were set to Always.

Hmmm, Bizarro, huh. A while ago Uatu and I spent a lot of time thinking up bizarro cretures for a bizarro AD&D demi-plane that PCs could visit. :) The thread is here some where...

olivier_leroux 07-23-2009 10:05 PM

Re: Chain Events for everyone
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by manikus (Post 1232501)
The only issue with this, is that they are the way they are because users earlier on requested that CocoaSpud do this.

Oh well. Those infamous demanding users again, they always ruin my suggestions... :animated_scratchchi

And again I don't see any logical reason for their request (well, this time even less). But, like you wrote elsewhere:

Quote:

Originally Posted by manikus (Post 1232469)
Logical reasons? We don't need no stinkin' logical reasons... :D:D:D

:yellowangel:

JonnieR 07-23-2009 10:14 PM

Re: Chain Events for everyone
 
Thats okay I don't need to see bizarro creatures. I can go to downtown San Francisco to do that. BTW I now recall that this is what I had to do to get the chained statements to work in our last project. I always figured it was a programming error.

manikus 07-23-2009 10:25 PM

Re: Chain Events for everyone
 
Well, there is some type of error somewhere, as I cannot recreate your particular issue. For me it works as I've described or not at all.

Paul Stevens 07-23-2009 10:36 PM

Re: Chain Events for everyone
 
Any consensus on this? Is this
what the confusion is about?

Paul Stevens 07-23-2009 10:41 PM

Re: Chain Events for everyone
 
Quote:

"If the conditions for the Chain event to occur are met, any events in the "Chained Events" branch will occur (if conditions for individual events are met), else, any events in the "Normal Chain" will occur (if conditions for individuals events are met).
"If the conditions for the Chain event are met, any events in the "Chained Events" branch will be attempted, else, any events in the "Normal Chain" will be attempted."


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