WHAT YOU CAN DO
by Hazed
You write events by issuing instructions to the game about what you want to happen. Those instructions take the form of scripts. Alan is writing this version of the event editor in stages and the first release has eight scripts in it which allow you to do the following:
- Send an announcement to a specific location, so that everyone in the room sees the message
- Send a message to the player that makes the event happen, or to everybody in the room with the player
- Move a player to another location on the map
- Check the player's gender and vary the outcome accordingly, so you can have different things happen to male, female and neuter players
- Check if the player owns the planet - in other words you can have an event happen just for you, or to everyone that isn't you, in order to provide yourself with something special or to keep people out of a private area
- Check the location a player has entered a room from and vary the outcome accordingly, so she gets a different response depending on which entrance she used
- Introduce an element of randomness into events by getting the game to "roll a dice" or calculate odds to determine what will happen
More scripts will come in the next release of the event editor which should be in a couple of weeks time.
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