course of terror WP

[rock5]

So if I understand correctly the repeat ticket allows you to repeat all Malatina games. I'd use a separate file so you don't have to modify the cot script, just in case the cot script gets updated or you want to change things around. It will be easier with a separate file.

[MalatinaRepeat.xml outdated version removed]

I just did some cut and pasting and came up with this.
It's sort of like my 'survivalnext' and can probably be used the same. It is completely untested and is specifically designed for your needs. It only works on English clients and only uses the one type of ticket. It can be modified later if other people want to use it.

Like my other files it can be controlled by the options. Let me know if you don't understand any of them.

[CanceR]

any idea how to make following code as usefunction:

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function checkRelog()
		-- Log result
		local filename = getExecutionPath() .. "/logs/cot.log";
		local file, err = io.open(filename, "a+");
		if file then
			file:write("Date: " .. os.date() .."\tAccount: "..RoMScript("GetAccountName()").."\tName: " ..string.format("%-10s",player.Name )..
			" \tShells gained/total: "..inventory:getItemCount(240181) - numshells.."/".. inventory:getItemCount(240181).. "\t" ..logentry .. "\n")
			file:close();
		end

because if I just paste is in userfuction, "logentry" generates error.
i just want to make userfunction, to be used to log info for how much time are done my daily quests and to log that amount of time. Bellow code is not working correctly:

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function LogToFileDQ(_message, _filename)
	-- Log result
	local filename = getExecutionPath() .. _filename;
	local file, err = io.open(filename, "a+");
	if file then
		file:write("Date: " .. os.date() .."\tAccount: "..RoMScript("GetAccountName()").." \tChar No: "..RoMScript("CHARACTER_SELECT.selectedIndex").."\tName: " ..string.format("%-10s",player.Name ).."\t DQ's '".._message.."' completed".."\t" ..logentry .. "\n")
		file:close();
	end
end

can i ask for some correction/explanation, please?
or how to add third parameter, depending on which - to add or not to add data for time of completition?

[rock5]

In that example, it looks like 'logentry' has no value.

[CanceR]

i found my misunderstanding. "logentry" uses data from "TimeKeeperFrame.startTime-GetTime()" to show only time left from Malatina mini game, and will not be usefull for my case.
then next idea: how to organize a timer inside a waypoint? to start counting time from start of waypoint and to assign amount of passed time, somewhere later in same waypoint? and later to be able to log that passed time value

[rock5]

Just save the current time. There are a few time functions. Eg.

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starttime = os.clock()

Then later when you want to know how much time has passed you can go

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elapsedtime = os.clock() - starttime

os.clock() is in seconds.

[CanceR]

i tried to steal some code from cot.xml

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	starttime = os.clock();

and later in WP code:

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	elapsedtime = os.clock() - starttime;
	local mm = string.format("%02s", math.floor(elapsedtime/60))
	local ss = string.format("%02s", math.floor(math.mod(elapsedtime, 60)))
	logentry = string.format("in %s:%s ",mm,ss);

but text in log file says: " in 00:02" - i think it does not calculate minutes, only seconds (may be). any advices?

[rock5]

It worked for me.

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        RomBot command line
Type in 'q' (without quotes) to quit.
Command> elapsedtime = 65
Command> mm = string.format("%02s", math.floor(elapsedtime/60))
Command> ss = string.format("%02s", math.floor(math.mod(elapsedtime, 60)))
Command> logentry = string.format("in %s:%s ",mm,ss);
Command> print(logentry)
in 01:05

Maybe it really did take 2 seconds.

[Cindy]

Ok, there are multiple repeater tickets...

One allows both to repeat (this is the awesome one)
One allows repeat of COT
One allows repeat of Survivor game.

Malatina Event Repeat Ticket - repeats both
Malatina's Dungeon Repeat Ticket (im not sure if this is COT or survivor)

I don't know what the third is called, because I don't have one at the moment.

[rock5]

Ok, there are multiple repeater tickets...

Is this a request to add support for them in malatinarepeat? So how do we want it to work? Just use whichever ones it finds otherwise leave everything else as it is?

Using InventoryPreview addon I can find the following tickets

• Malatina Event Repeat Ticket
  Malatina's Event Repeat Ticket (1 Day)
  Malatina's Dungeon Repeat Ticket
  Malatina's Dungeon Repeat Ticket (1 Day)
  Malatina's Course of Terror Repeat Ticket
  Malatina's Course of Terror Repeat Ticket (1 day)

[Cindy]

The important thing is that you don't want to use the one that resets both until you have done both. Logistically it means loading the WP files for the one(s) you have reset involves some decision making logic.

And yes the IP listing seems right, although I have no idea how the (1 day) one differs.

I was thinking along these lines and a question came up, can the 'chaining' mechanism be improved, so that execution returns to the calling script (at the called location) upon completion of the called script?

[lisa]

just make up a "control" WP which is onload only that will make the decisions of what WP to load.

At the end of each WP you use make sure it gets back to the same spot and you do the loadpath of the control WP.

You can keep track of what has been done using global values.

example in the survival WP you could add the characters name to a table for survival.

in the control WP you can look in that table to see if the character has done the WP or not.

Something to remember though, you need to have a table defined in order to insert info into it but if you define the table each time you run the control WP it will clear old data.
A few ways around it.

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if survivaltable == nil then survivaltable = {} end

that will check if it exists and if not then it will define it as a table, just remember to use unique names as if there is a function, value or table for the name elsewhere then it won't be nil lol

hope I didn't confuse you to much.

[rock5]

The important thing is that you don't want to use the one that resets both until you have done both. Logistically it means loading the WP files for the one(s) you have reset involves some decision making logic.

I wasn't going to do any decision making. I was just going to use a ticket then repeat the games. Eg.
survival -> cot -> malatinarepeat (use a ticket) -> survival -> cot -> malatinarepeat (no more tickets) -> next file
That might mean you try repeating a game you have already done but the scripts can handle that and will skip the game if already done. I guess if I don't have a double game ticket it will try to use 1 ticket of each game before repeating.

And yes the IP listing seems right, although I have no idea how the (1 day) one differs.

I think I'll ignore the 1 days as it will require different programming and I don't know how they work. If someone ever gets one of these then we'll see.

I was thinking along these lines and a question came up, can the 'chaining' mechanism be improved, so that execution returns to the calling script (at the called location) upon completion of the called script?

Lisa explains how it could be done but I find the idea more trouble than it's worth trying to keep track of where it's up to. I do sometimes use a starting script though, that makes some decisions on how to start, which chains to use, where to start in the chain, etc.

[Cindy]

I guess what I was thinking of is being able to have an optimized route (minimum ports to minimize crashes?) and as i go along I can do different things (even load an event specific sub-loop for example), and always return control to the main function (sort of like how software execution path goes).

Phase two of this plan involves logging as I move along, so when crashes happen I can recover progress so far from the log files, and continue the grind loop.

This of course relies on success in the work that someone else here is doing on being able to re-launch rom, and start character, etc.

[harbifm]

thanks Rock, the maltina repat worked,
tried for like 20 times, where i rune leave for 2 hourse, come back where ther is almsot 1000 shells


but yeasterday, when I left the pc overnight , it choged 40 tickets

it may run out of phirous tokkens or something, but somthing went wrong unfortent

so everyone be carfull with the repeat waypoint

[rock5]

You make a good point. It would have to check if you have enough coins. I forgot how many they need. How many coins does cot and survival need? Was it 30 for all games? I seem to remember something was different. Maybe it was the reward shells. Anyway, I'll add a check for them. I was also going to add code for the other types of tickets. Forgot all about it. I'll do that too.

[rock5]

Ok, here is version 2. It checks to make sure you have enough coins before using tickets, it uses all 3 types of tickets, and it is now language independent. It's untested so let me know if it works.

[MalatinaRepeat.xml outdated version removed]

More details on how it uses the tickets:

• - It first checks if you have a double event ticket and only uses that if you have 60 coins.
  - If you have 60 coins but no event ticket then it tries to use both survival and cot tickets
  - If you have only enough coins for one game it will try to use a cot or survival ticket but wont use both.

[kenzu38]

Hi lisa, first of all, let me thank you for making this script. It's working really well for me. I'm using the cot_tele one btw.

I just have a small request though, hope you can help me. I want the script to also talk to the NPC (I think it's also Malatina?) to teleport out after getting all the chests. Can you add that as an option to your script?

Would really appreciate it if you can. Thanks.

[rock5]

Sort of like I did with AT? That should be easy. I'll just copy it and modify it.

Ok, took me a bit longer than I thought. My version had a lot of little modifications that I had to go through and decide if I'd include them.

I've added the option

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	ExitBeforeNextFile    = false	-- If you want it to exit game before loading next "waypointfilename".

I've defaulted it to "false" so if you want it to exit then set it to "true". Please try this version and let me know how it goes as I haven't tested it myself.

[kenzu38]

Hi rock5, thanks for sharing your scripts.

Your toat.xml file worked fine. Unfortunately, the cot_tele.xml did not. I tried it with 2 chars now, and the errors on both run were always on exiting COT. Log reports errors as: Option "I want to leave" not found. Option "Confirm" not found.

I had to click Malatina manually to leave but good thing is it still loads the next waypoint after I exit the minigame.

If the bot is the one that clicks Malatina, a different dialogue pops up with only the "Leave Conversation" option. If I click it manually, only then does the usual dialogue pop up.

Btw, I am using 5.0.5.2592 and updated Rombot and I wasn't lagging either.

[rock5]

Sorry. wrong Malatina id. This should work.

cot_tele.xml

Version 1.81

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Also here is the MalatinaRepeat script with the updated id.

MalatinaRepeat.xml

Version 2.1

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