Lloyd said:
I know that most of the script was easy to write, but I am completely new to scripting.
If you read through the script more carefully, you'll understand why I'm annoyed. I am not annoyed because it was easy, as there are dozens of easy scripts which don't annoy me at all; I'm annoyed because you created a list of things you wanted it to do, in the order you wanted it to happen, and the commands matched so closely it had to either be laziness at reading the manual, laziness at providing us a script you had already written, or both.
Maybe if I put everything that you said right next to it, the reason for my annoyance becomes more clear. The lines with "#" symbols in front of them are what you typed, and the lines without # symbols are the script commands that did what you wanted. Please compare your statements with the corresponding script command and ask yourself, "Were you intentionally wasting everyone's time by not providing your sample script, or did you blow off the manual, come directly here and post your script request?"
Code:
# buys 6 jumbo olives
buy 6 jumbo olive
# buys 3 bottles of gin
buy 3 bottle of gin
# buys 15 lucky surprise eggs
buy 15 lucky surprise egg
# makes ands drinks 3 dirty martinis
drink 3 dirty martini
# eats 15 lucky surprise eggs
eat 15 lucky surprise egg
# Adventures at Icy Peak * turns
adventure * icy peak
# sends 6, 7, 5, and 8 meat to testudinata
send 6 meat to testudinata
send 7 meat to testudinata
send 5 meat to testudinata
send 8 meat to testudinata
# sends 3 meat to sneaksie
send 3 meat to sneaksie
Lloyd said:
The main difficulty involved in making the script (the weird combat script I couldn't manage to write) you didn't manage to do,
Please re-read the first and last paragraph of my previous post carefully, as they fully explain why your script should not be written. I will re-iterate the points here in a vague fashion, just so you know what to look for.
I provide reasons why, even if it were written, it wouldn't work in the present release. I provide reasons why it's advised that you don't do so, because it's really ass-hattish to meat farm in this fashion given the yield difference. Finally, I provide a reason why you shouldn't bother writing the settings file if you ever plan on upgrading KoLmafia, even if you were the sort of person who wanted to optimize meat drops at the expense of other players.
I have no idea what kind of stunt you're trying to pull here, but you're seriously insulting everyone by not bothering to read the manual before posting a script request, not bothering to read the post (skipping only to the script).
Lloyd said:
so please don't tell me off for requesting help
I will make this absolutely clear: I am demanding to know why you felt the need to waste everyone's time by not providing a base script to work from OR by not reading the KoLmafia scripting manual, as it is absolutely clear that one of these two must hold true for you to have provided the kind of list that you provided which matched script commands so closely it would annoy anyone who would bother to write such a script in the first place.