My scripts

[Haldrik]

Why didn't tpick move on to the next lockpick when it failed on a 94 roll?

You remove a fine-toothed red kelyn lockpick from in your vruul-hide toolkit.
>
[tpick: Attempting to pick lock.]
[tpick]>lmas ptrick spin #31595530
With a quick flick of the wrist, you spin your red kelyn lockpick around in your palm, stopping it as the tip enters a plain maoral box...
You make a competent attempt (d100=61).
You are not able to pick the lock, but you get a feeling that it is within your abilities.
Roundtime: 18 sec.
R>
[tpick: Attempting to pick lock.]
[tpick]>lmas ptrick spin #31595530
>
With a quick flick of the wrist, you spin your red kelyn lockpick around in your palm, stopping it as the tip enters a plain maoral box...
You make an excellent attempt (d100=94).
You are not able to pick the box, but you get a sense that it has a moderately well-crafted lock. About a -420 difficulty lock (in thief-lingo).
Roundtime: 18 sec.
R>
[tpick: Attempting to pick lock.]
[tpick]>lmas ptrick spin #31595530
With a quick flick of the wrist, you spin your red kelyn lockpick around in your palm, stopping it as the tip enters a plain maoral box...
You make a miserable attempt (d100=11).
* SNAP * Crud! You broke your lockpick in the attempt!
Roundtime: 18 sec.
R>
[tpick: red lockpick is broken.]
R>
[tpick]>put my red lockpick in my cloak
You tuck the red kelyn lockpick into a small pocket inside of your leather cloak.
>
[tpick: Error found in broken lockpick stow.]

[Tgo01]

That's a darn good question. What do you have the roll checkie thingie at in setup?

[Haldrik]

That's a darn good question. What do you have the roll checkie thingie at in setup?

70 reg
90 vaalin

[Tgo01]

Well the reading said it was a "moderately well-crafted lock", do you happen to have the log for that box pick attempt and can say what your caliper reading was?

That roll number is based off the calculation of your lockpicking abilities and what you should be able to pick and shit and shit. You could make the number lower so it will attempt to move on earlier, or it's possible your calipers were really out of tune and it showed the lock being much easier so the script thought you would have an easier time picking it.

[Haldrik]

Hmm. My Calipers are absolutely out of tune since I don't have calibrate yet.

But I'm still confused. You don't actually look at the lockroll during the process? You just calculate based on the Calipers and pick til it's done? But that doesn't make sense either because it moves on in other instances.

[Tgo01]

Hmm. My Calipers are absolutely out of tune since I don't have calibrate yet.

That would be the problem then.

You don't actually look at the lockroll during the process?

This is correct.

You just calculate based on the Calipers and pick til it's done?

Basically. There is a relatively accurate formula for what difficulty of lock you can pick based on your lockpicking skill, DEX bonus, 403 strength, and type of lockpick used. So let's say with all of this added together with a copper lockpick you can manage to pick a -400 lock with a roll of 2, which means you can pick a -448 with a roll of 50. If you set your roll number thingie in setup to 50 then for any caliper reading with a lock difficulty of -448 or below you will attempt to pick this with a copper lockpick. If the caliper reading puts the difficulty at -449 or above it will automatically start with a steel lockpick (or whatever lockpick depending on lock difficulty.)

But that doesn't make sense either because it moves on in other instances.

There are some messages you receive after attempting to pick a lock that pretty much mean "Hey just give up! You can't pick this lock!" Going from the log you posted you didn't receive those messages. In fact with the roll of 61 you received the messaging that actually lowers the difficulty of the lock (well gives you a slight boost of like 5 or something to your lockpicking abilities for that lock.) Also the fact that you were able to sense the difficulty of the lock is a good message also, but you got that with a roll of 94 so that's probably why. If you had rolled a 20 it's possible you would have gotten a "too difficult" message and it would have moved on.

My best guess is your calipers are the culprit. I suppose you could calibrate them at the workshop or just buy a new set every once in a while

[Haldrik]

Cool, thanks TG. I'll just buy a new set. I'm almost rank 10 and then i can start calibrating.

[Nahkaev]

A while back I bribed you to make the script bountysitter.lic for me, essentially what it does is swap out tasks over and over until I get one of the category and of the monster or gem variety that I feed in as variables. It works beautifully, however I currently have to run it inside of a wrapper because I'm too stupid to figure out how to make it ;go2 back to the spot it was started from once it trades tasks or (the part i couldnt get to work correctly: ) while it's waiting to trade again. I'm sure I'm just missing something stupid- I tried pirating code from ;useherbs because it does the behavior I want, this was probably a mistake.

here's your unmolested code:

go_to = nil
target_room = nil
target_room_list = nil
person = nil
bounty_type = nil
bounty_target = nil
bounty_check_list = nil
get_new_bounty = nil

bounty_type = "#{script.vars[1]}"
bounty_target = "#{script.vars[2]}"

if bounty_type =~ /cull/
	bounty_check_list += "You have been tasked to suppress|"
	bounty_check_list += "they have a creature problem|"
end
if bounty_type =~ /heir/
	bounty_check_list += "need your help in tracking down some kind of lost heirloom|"
	bounty_check_list += "You have been tasked to recover|"
end
if bounty_type =~ /skin/
	bounty_check_list += "The local furrier|"
	bounty_check_list += "You can SKIN them|"
end
if bounty_type =~ /gem/
	bounty_check_list += "The gem dealer|"
	bounty_check_list += "The local gem dealer|"
end
if bounty_type =~ /escort/
	bounty_check_list += "provide a protective escort|"
end
if bounty_type =~ /herb/
	bounty_check_list += "The healer|"
end
if bounty_type =~ /dangerous/
	bounty_check_list += "hunt down and kill a particularly dangerous|"
	bounty_check_list += "they have a creature problem|"
end
if bounty_type =~ /child/
	bounty_check_list += "You have been tasked to rescue the young runaway|"
	bounty_check_list += "It appears that a local resident urgently needs our help in some matter|"
end
if bounty_type =~ /bandit/
	bounty_check_list += "It appears they have a bandit problem|"
end

bounty_check_list = bounty_check_list.chop

get_new_bounty = proc{
	person = nil
	target_room_list = Map.list.find_all { |room| room.tags.include?('advguild') }
	go_to.call
	fput "ask #{person} about bounty"
	person = nil
	if (checkbounty =~ /#{bounty_check_list}/) and script.vars[1] != nil
		if checkbounty =~ /they have a creature problem|need your help in tracking down some kind of lost heirloom|It appears that a local resident urgently needs our help in some matter/
			target_room_list = Map.list.find_all { |room| room.tags.include?('advguard') }
			go_to.call
			if person == nil
				target_room_list = Map.list.find_all { |room| room.tags.include?('advguard2') }
				go_to.call
			end
			fput "ask #{person} about bounty"
		end
	end
	if (checkbounty =~ /#{bounty_check_list}/) and script.vars[1] != nil
		if checkbounty =~ /The gem dealer|The local gem dealer/
			target_room_list = Map.list.find_all { |room| room.tags.include?('gemshop') }
			go_to.call
			fput "ask #{person} about bounty"
		end
	end
	if (checkbounty =~ /#{bounty_check_list}/) and script.vars[1] != nil
		if checkbounty =~ /The local furrier/
			target_room_list = Map.list.find_all { |room| room.tags.include?('furrier') }
			go_to.call
			fput "ask #{person} about bounty"
		end
	end
	if (checkbounty =~ /#{bounty_check_list}/) and script.vars[1] != nil
		if checkbounty =~ /The healer/
			target_room_list = Map.list.find_all { |room| room.tags.include?('npchealer') }
			go_to.call
			fput "ask #{person} about bounty"
		end
	end
	if (checkbounty =~ /#{bounty_check_list}/) && (checkbounty =~ /#{bounty_target}/) && (script.vars[1] != nil)
		echo "Found a suitable bounty!"
		exit
	else
		target_room_list = Map.list.find_all { |room| room.tags.include?('advguild') }
		go_to.call
		2.times { fput "ask #{person} about remove" }
	end
}

go_to = proc{
	target_room = Room.current.find_nearest(target_room_list)
	fput "stand" unless standing?
	move 'out' if checkpaths 'out'
	kill_script "go2" if running? "go2"
	wait_until { !running? "go2" }
	until Room.current.id == target_room
		if Room.current.id != target_room
			start_script 'go2', [ target_room.to_s ]
			wait_while{ running?('go2') }
		end
		sleep 0.1
	end
	wait_while { running?('go2') }
	person = GameObj.npcs.last
}

loop{
	if Spell[9003].active?
		wait_until {!Spell[9003].active?}
	end
	get_new_bounty.call
	sleep 1
}

[Tgo01]

You want the script to go back to where you started the script from?

You could set a variable at the beginning of the script to remember which lich room you started from.

Like:

this_room = Room.current.id

Then when you want to go back to that room start go2 thusly:

start_script 'go2', [ this_room ]
wait_while{ running?('go2') }

[Nahkaev]

that is exactly correct - and it works great if the script finds a bounty that I like (and thus exits), but I am having trouble making it do that while it's still running (when it gets bounties that I *don't* like.)

I am, apparently, very stupid.