So I've played around in the past trying to get my mapper script for Mudlet (which is originally due to Groderick I believe) to follow me around well in brief mode/the dark, and I -think- I've successfully done so. Was hoping to get feedback from other people on whether it works outside of how I have mudlet set up personally for myself. I've heard success from one friend so far, but more test cases would be nice as well
If anyone's interested in testing it out, you can download folders for triggers/aliases/scripts here (lemme know if the link don't work for some reason):
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b5k3mwonr3ap ... P4IUa?dl=0
You'll probably have to download these three/import into mudlet/deactivate any previous mapper things you have and activate these/possibly restart mudlet to clear some variables/see if the map still follows you around.
What it -should- do is:
in non-brief, non-following: track where i am on movement, and flees assuming no connecting rooms are duplicates in names/desc/exits
in brief, non-following: track where i am on movement, and flees assuming no connecting rooms are duplicates in names/exits
in dark, non-following: track where i am on movement, firetruck up on flees.
If it appears to be following you around in all these cases, awesome!
More detail on what you can expect then for some specific cases:
The most likely times the mapper will lose you is if you're in brief mode and have happened to flee into the dark or to an area with lots of rooms with the same names/exits (think TV-Caem Road along a long n/s stretch). Looking at a room should reset your position, assuming no two rooms in the mud share the exact same name/descriptions/exits. Alternatively, if you're still moving along in brief mode and happen to come across a room with a unique name/exits combination, it should reset to your position.
Ex: I'm 2n caemlyn egate in brief mode. I flee n, but mapper can't tell dif between n/s because they have the same name/exits. So I get "multiple matches". I move s, end up 2n egate. Mapper still can't tell where I am, because the name "The Outer Road" with exits n/w/s is not unique. I move 2s, and finally mapper finds me because egate caemlyn has a unique room name.
If you are following someone, I (at the moment) treat that as you fleeing around. This is in order to be rather general, as you might be following someone who's sneaking and therefore I wouldn't (or don't think I could? maybe I'm wrong on what the MUD displays) be able to determine what direction they went. You could certainly write something up for the separate cases where you can pick out the direction a leader moved, but I was not motivated enough to do that quickly yet, and found no particular reason to for myself atm.
This will cause the same issues as above if you're following around in brief mode, and the leader moves from room A to room B, except room C also connects to A and has the same name/exits as B.
Ex: same as above, except instead of fleeing from 2n egate I'm following someone who moves n, then s, then 2s.
If you find that troublesome, turn off brief mode when following someone and mapper should work fine.
In most cases, a quick "look" to reset the mapper on your room and a "resetqueue" to clear out any dirs/flees stored in the commands table should fix things if it appears broken.
Thoughts/comments/suggestions appreciated! I'll probably shortly get around to updating/changing some commands for actually mapping places or easily updating rooms previously mapped so people can do that as well (you'll find some commands in the aliases folder already, but no promises how well they work still lol).
Edit: fixed the link/files in there bc I didn't export things properly
Edit 2017-8-05 afternoon EST: fixed a slight bug where you might be in non-brief mode, pass through a room with a changed desc so the mapper would lose track of you, then not be able to pick up your location again.
Edit 2017-08-09 shortly after reboot: slightly fixed how the map tracks when you're following others. Still not ideal, but I'll have a better feel once I make my way n for blight pk and can see how it does. Updated some aliases, and it seems that being able to map new areas is working well. I may write up a short how-to on that sometime soon.
