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Aug 16 2006, 12:51 am
Procs would be useful for letting a player choose his race or class?
Aug 16 2006, 1:03 am
I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but if you want to let a player select their race or class from a list of choices you'll want to use the input proc.

If you're only giving them one or two choices the alert proc would suffice. I wouldn't recommend switching between input and alert very often though as the inconsistancy can make a game look thrown together.
Aug 17 2006, 8:06 am
In response to DarkView
To be honest, I have absolutely no knowledge of how to make savefiles and player managment systems. So find that out, and try to adapt my work to your game:

world
    name="World Name"

mob/var //saying that it is the mob's variable
    race //race var
mob
    Login() //when the player logs in
        race1 //if a player is not satisfied with their choice afterwards they can return to it
        switch(input("Welcome to [world.name]. Of what race would you like to be?","Race")in list("Human","Alien","Blorg Race")) //List what races they could be
            if("Human") //If they choose humans
                switch(alert("You have chosen to be a \"Human\" Are you satisfied with your choice, or do you want to return and choose a different race?","","Satisfied","Cancel"))
                    if("Satisfied") //If they are sure they want to be a human
                        src.race="Human" //They are a human.
                        //Here add icons and vars that make them who they are.
                        src.Move(locate(1,1,1))//Put the human where the humans start (perferrably Earth ;) )
                    if("Cancel") //If they want to change
                        goto race1 //Go back to choosing, where race1 is.
            if("Alien")
                switch(alert("You have chosen to be an \"Alien\" Are you satisfied with your choice, or do you want to return and choose a different race?","","Satisfied","Cancel"))
                    if("Satisfied") //If they are sure they want to be an alien
                        src.race="Alien" //They are an alien.
                        //Here add icons and vars that make them who they are.
                        src.Move(locate(1,1,1))//Put them where aliens start on your map.
                    if("Cancel") //If they want to change
                        goto race1 //Go back to choosing, where race1 is.
            if("Blorg Race")
                switch(alert("You have chosen to be a \"Blorg\" Are you satisfied with your choice, or do you want to return and choose a different race?","","Satisfied","Cancel"))
                    if("Satisfied") //If they are sure they want to be a blorg
                        src.race="Blorg" //then they are a blorg
                        //Here add icons and vars that make them who they are.
                        src.Move(locate(1,1,1))//Put them where blorgs start on your map
                    if("Cancel") //If they want to change
                        goto race1 //Go back to choosing, where race1 is.
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Hope it helped a bit.

If thats what you wanted, then feel free to use it. If its not, then ill try again, but expain what you want in more detail