Official bored at work / just shooting the shit / no rails to derail thread

[Taskmage]

Re: Official bored at work / just shooting the shit / no rails to derail thread

Mind if I have a look? I've spent the afternoon writing xml for Yyg.

[Feba]

Re: Official bored at work / just shooting the shit / no rails to derail thread

Oh yeah, let's all trust our important technical shit with Taskmage.

As if our lives weren't hard enough already.

[Taskmage]

Re: Official bored at work / just shooting the shit / no rails to derail thread

Hey I have a better record on data security than Sony, and come through on my promises faster than SE.

[cidbahamut]

Re: Official bored at work / just shooting the shit / no rails to derail thread

I'll post it up in a minute. Gonna spend a little bit fiddling with it since I just got home.

[Taskmage]

Re: Official bored at work / just shooting the shit / no rails to derail thread

[cidbahamut]

Re: Official bored at work / just shooting the shit / no rails to derail thread

[XML] RDM.XML - Pastebin.com

Everything in there should currently be working except for the part where I'm trying to dynamically grab my max mp total after converting, since that's the only difference right now between that file and my stable version. As it stands it's just grabbing my MP from before Converting because MPAfterCast doesn't understand that there's MP changes involved with certain JAs, or at least that's my guess as to what's happening with it.

[Taskmage]

Re: Official bored at work / just shooting the shit / no rails to derail thread

Thanks. That reminded me I needed to add chainspell exemptions and a fishing set to my xml, too. I finally figured out how to get spellcast to upload to Guildwork, so it's up there if you care to critique: Lago | Guildwork

[cidbahamut]

Re: Official bored at work / just shooting the shit / no rails to derail thread

Under healing magic, you're gonna trigger Cursna with that "Cur*" bit. I had that pointed out to me in mine, so it seems to be a common oversight. Anyway, put that on pastebin so I can browse it more thoroughly at work tomorrow. Pretty sure the firewall doesn't like Guildwork.

[Taskmage]

Re: Official bored at work / just shooting the shit / no rails to derail thread

ooh, good point. drat. that's a pain.

[XML] <?xml version="1.0" ?> <spellcast> <guildwork character="Lago" server - Pastebin.com

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Looking at your code again, you could make it more efficient with more liberal use of elseif statements. If the spell is "Protect*|Shell*" then there's no reason to check if it's "Sneak|Invisible" for example.

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Also, you have the opposite problem I have with my Cur* rule. Cure* won't catch Curagas.

[cidbahamut]

Re: Official bored at work / just shooting the shit / no rails to derail thread

I would probably care more about that if I hadn't bloodily murdered my /WHM, stuffed it in a body bag and hurled if off a bridge.

/SCH or GTFO.

If you need me /WHM then what you really need is a White Mage.

[Firewind]

Re: Official bored at work / just shooting the shit / no rails to derail thread

Another great Pony Polka video:

[cidbahamut]

Re: Official bored at work / just shooting the shit / no rails to derail thread

Other thought: do we actually need our XML to be even moderately efficient? I can't imagine these rulesets are complex enough that it's actually slowing down the response time to the point where it actually makes a difference. Or am I totally off base on that? I mean it's not like we're putting in while(true) loops in the middle of stuff or anything.

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Holy cow! I think I figured out my Convert dilemma.

Instead of running it all through the rules, I can do it through the in-game macros.

//sc set maxMP

//sc var set ConvertMP %MPMax

//convert


That should get me a dynamic maximum mp shoved into a variable for gear staggering. It's not elegant, but I think it'll work until I can figure out how to make Spellcast do it properly for me on the XML side.

It's always right before bed that I come up with all my solutions to programming problems for some reason.

[Taskmage]

Re: Official bored at work / just shooting the shit / no rails to derail thread

I just assume that if you're of the mind to demand the added efficiency of xml-managed gearswaps and savvy enough to code your own, your the type of person to want clean, lean code. That's me, anyway. As to whether it makes a difference, probably not at the level we're currently using it, but if you want it to do more interesting things like incrementally stepping down your max mp gear and such then you might start to notice, especially as finicky as XI can be about timing in moderate lag.

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It's always right before bed that I come up with all my solutions to programming problems for some reason.

Middle of the night: best time for creative coding solutions

[cidbahamut]

Re: Official bored at work / just shooting the shit / no rails to derail thread

ARGH! Monkey wrench in the plans. I can't get right syntax for the line:
//sc var set ConvertMP %MPMax

I've tried every combination I can think of, but it always parses it as a string and not as a variable, so my ConvertMP variable gets assigned text instead of a number. This is gonna bug me all day.

[Aksannyi]

Re: Official bored at work / just shooting the shit / no rails to derail thread

You know how I know Facebook is killing America?

My cousin, whose birthday is the same day (and year) as mine, apparently changed his birthday on his profile for whatever reason, and when I happened to look at his wall, more than three dozen people had wished him a happy birthday - a mere three months after he already had his 30th birthday. Some of these people are family members.

Granted, I don't remember the birthdays of all my friends - but those would be the friends I wouldn't wish a happy birthday at all if not for Facebook, honestly. I'm really not sure if it's funny or if it's just sad.