Example conversation · Desolation

// This is an example of a mob that has conversation options in it.

inherit ADVERSARY;
inherit M_CONVERSATION;

void setup() {
   set_name("Scruffy Murphy");
   set_proper_name("Scruffy Murphy");
   set_id("scruffy", "murphy", "scruffy murphy", "shopkeeper", "merchant", "man");
   set_gender(1);

   set_in_room_desc("Scruffy Murphy stands here, waiting for you to talk to him.");
   set_long("True to his name, Scruffy Murphy is grubby, scruffy, and filthy.
   Thin and lanky, the twenty-five year old man stands at about five feet eleven
   inches tall, with dark brown eyes and a shock of dark brown hair to go with it.
   Signs of premature aging is all about him, he has strands of silvery hair, and a
   few wrinkles around his eyes. He wears a dirty off-white t-shirt and has an
   unbuttoned, collared blue checkered shirt to go with a pair of dark blue,
   grubby looking jeans. With a bored look on his face, he seems to be minding the store.
   \n");

set_wearing("/domains/gear/clothes/tshirts/stained_tshirt.c");
set_wearing("/domains/gear/clothes/pants/oldjeans.c");

/*
The first thing you should do is have a conversation tree set out.
You can write one down manually - ideally this is better.
Draw out a flowchart. For example:

Player: Hello there.
Scruffy says: Hello there. How are you?

Suppose you want the player to have to responses to that.
Draw out a tree like this:

                 Good
How are you?  <
                 Bad

Scruffy says something in response to either of that, and more conversation options may
turn up from there. For example: (The ones in brackets are S's replies)

Let's put this into practice, huh.
*/

//This is the conversation options that the player is allowed to have.
   set_options( ([

     "hello"   : "Hello there.",

     "good"    : "Good.",
     "bad"     : "Bad.",

     "likeguns": "I like guns.",
     "noguns"  : "I dislike guns.",

     "talk"    : "I fell down this morning.",
     "notalk"  : "Rather not talk about it.",

   ]) );

/*These actually set out the conversation trees in particular.
They HAVE to respond to an option above, otherwise they won't work.
This is actually the bulk of the conversation trees.*/
set_responses( ([
"hello" : "Why hello there. How are you? @@good,bad@@hello",

/*   Why is it set up this way. @@good, bad in the first part refers to giving
     new conversation options of GOOD and BAD in the next line. The following
     part, @@hello, disallows the use of hello as a conversation option.
     Normally this is not needed, but I placed it there just in case.
     There is to be NO space inbetween the options.
*/

"good" : "That's nice. What do you think about guns?@@likeguns,noguns@@bad",

/* This way, I disallow the "bad" conversation from continuing, keeping the discussion
sweet and simple. */

"bad" : "That's bad. Do you want to talk about it?@@talk,notalk@@good",

/* Similarly, here I disallow the "good" conversation from continuing, keeping the discussion
simple. */

"likeguns" : "!emote pulls out a gun. 'I like this one', he says.@@-@@noguns",

/* Here, I made it so that he actually doesn't SAY it, but EMOTES the action. Also, I disallowed
further conversation options, and made it so that the noguns option is removed. */

     "noguns"  : "Well you suck.@@-@@likeguns",
     "talk"    : "Ah. I sympathise.@@-@@notalk",
     "notalk"  : "Fine then.@@-@@talk",

]) );

/*
This part is important as it tells the code which option to direct the player to
at the start of the conversation.
*/
set_start( ({ "hello" }) );

}

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