Delay Script Suggestion

Ministry of Affairs The Dread Factory
#1

I’m trying to script an NPC so it will deliver some text lines and then do further actions,

My idea was to give it a gossip and then use that to initiate the sequence,

  1. On First Gossip Open -> Close Gossip
  2. On First Gossip Open -> Make NPC Talk (Linked Event)
  3. On Linked Event -> Make NPC Talk (Linked Event)
  4. On Linked Event -> Make NPC Talk

This way the NPC Delivers multiple lines in a sequence, HOWEVER.

There is no method to allow for a delay between the lines being delivered, so the end result is that the NPC spews out everything at once.

My suggestion is to add a Delay Action, similar to Periodically but specify a time, and then link the event, so it will only begin the next event when the delay finishes.

Considering how the scripting is setup now, where,
Action -> Effect -> LinkedY/N
it may be better to just code a delay into the whole website, so instead have scripting occur as
Action -> Delay(Specify) -> Effect -> LinkedY/N

With Delay being 0 by default

I know nothing about WoW’s scripting code, but under current NPC scripts I cannot see a feasible method of making an NPC deliver NPC talk lines without some kind of delay, and no, Gossips are not the solution.

#2

It’s, hey you can technically do this now, you’d need a dummy NPC nearby which is set to a hostile faction when the option is selected, then periodically in combat at 4 seconds it casts X spell, which when it hits the target makes it say the first thing, then at 8 seconds it casts another spell which triggers the second thing. Etc

For the record, I absolutely support this suggestion and may have made it before, I don’t recall, but I doubt it will be implemented so in the mean time, there’s that.

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