[DGD] Skills

[Stephen Schmidt]

On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Ben Chambers wrote:
> Say that you had a multipart skill or spell... What would be the best
> way of storing the current state of execution  (skill/state of skill)
> for each user and making sure that each round it steps through to the
> next phase of each skill?  Callouts?  Some sort of global stack that
> keeps all the information of what is going on?

Callouts -is- a global stack, so all else equal, I would use
callouts rather than duplicate the function in the mudlib.
You can pass arguments through the call_out function, which
will handle the problem of storing state, and you can use
remove_call_out to manage the stack if you need to (if you
need to alter the args or something, remove the existing
call_out and insert a new one with the changed args and the
remaining time).

A side note based on my experience doing such things: Be sure
you block the user from executing other commands during the
casting of the spell (such as movement) and from making combat
attacks, if that is desired.

Steve


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