Chain Events for everyone

[manikus]

Originally Posted by Paul Stevens 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]

Originally Posted by manikus 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.

[manikus]

Originally Posted by olivier_leroux 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]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by manikus 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...

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

Originally Posted by manikus Logical reasons? We don't need no stinkin' logical reasons...

[JonnieR]

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]

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]

Any consensus on this? Is this
what the confusion is about?

[Paul Stevens]

"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."