MUSHclient

[spiegel06]

is there a way to make triggers go off at random times? Instead of going off every 5 secs instead like 5 secs then 8,2,12,ect...?

[zionpsyfer]

in lua, you could write a script that calls the math.random function. Something like math.random(12)

[spiegel06]

lua? Sorry I do not know what that is.

[brsingr]

I would like to know same.

[zionpsyfer]

lua is once of the programming languages in which mushclient allows you to write scripts in. I haven't used it in years, but here's something along the lines of what you're looking for in javascript.

function doSend() 

{

     world.send("look");

     world.AddTimer("relook", 0, 0, Math.floor(Math.random() *  + 1, "", 1+2+4+1024+16384, "doSend");

}

Where the script says world.send("look"); is the actual sending of "look" to the mud.

Here's an intro to scripting in mushclient that'll explain the basics. That code above *should* do what you need once you read the intro.

http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/bbshowpost.php?bbsubject_id=6030

If you're going to go further into scripting, you might check out lua before javascript. It's fairly painless compared to Jscript, python or perl.