Posted by Lazlo on February 14, 2000 at 12:47:19:

Wouldn't it be nice if you could follow a road. Instead of always ramming your head against the wall.

It would be logical if your character would know that if you are standing on a road with two exits and you came in from the west, then you might want to continue further east.

Consider that you are walking to eastern road .. east (it's just an example)

Eastern Crossroads

[exits: north, south, east, west]
<100%hp 100%m 90%mv> continue e

Eastern Road

[exits: east, west]
<100%hp 100%m 87%mv> continue

You continue east.

Eastern Road

[exits: south, east]
<100%hp 100%m 87%mv> continue

You continue south.

Approaching the Large crossroads
[exits: east, west]
<100%hp 100%m 85%mv> continue

You continue east.

The Large Crossroads

[exits: north, south, east, west]
<100%hp 100%m 83%mv> continue

You are at an intersection, which direction do you wish to go ?

<100%hp 100%m 83%mv> continue n

The eastern road might be a bit too simple an example, but you get the idea. Navigating the roads north of galadon would be swell with something like this.

I could easily come up with an zMUD-script, that could do what my example does, but I would want it to be able to follow a road with fields on the side.

/Lazlo

Follow Ups:

• Is this the road to Sebeok/Mendeiron's house? nt Agent14 15:05:57 2/14/2000 (0)
• Re: IDEA: Following roads and paths Bill 13:00:16 2/14/2000 (3)
  • Re: IDEA: Following roads and paths Lazlo 13:08:03 2/14/2000 (2)
    • it's a good idea.. dr. penTel 13:32:24 2/14/2000 (1)
      • heh, way back when, the eastern road was only 12 squares long. The imms wanted it to appear that the cities were actually quite distant and needed a bit of travel. Course now the eastern road has become even more of a pk zone before *cackle* Old timer 14:39:26 2/14/2000 (0)

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