Are there scripts that will update the twx db when figs are killed? Which ones? I would have thought swath would do it as long as you had parsing on, but it doesn't seem to.

Your best bet is to write a script that uses sectorparameters to update when fighters are killed. This works well unless a corpie is gridding because you don't update a newly gridded sector unless you rebuild your list. Read the help file on parameters and you will find that it is easy to write.

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Mombot does this, fyi. Several scripts out there do.

Swath only updates on scan, not on hits.

Vid's Quick figs write paramiters and out put files in 3 main formats used by other scripts.
Vid's Fighits removes them when extern runs as well as player/alien hits.

There are some grid scripts that will place the paramiter back so its seen as figs/mines are placed.
Otherwise you will have to do refresh once in awhile.

But your question was to remove .. so that would be fighit.cts

your welcome to re-invent the wheel if you want tho.

Thanks, that's what I figured, but my problem is the text to trigger on ... that particular line starts with a variable, and the string doesn't look very unique. I guess I might have to trigger on the previous line...



What? Really? I use mombot... do i have to change a setting or something? I'll have to test it... if it's been doing it for me all along I'll be really surprised.

Also, can i get swath to update sector parms from twx automatically? It would be nice if the map was always as up-to-date as possible...



Cool, thanks Vid that's pretty much what I was looking for, I'll try it out. Only problem is the .cts, since I want to M()M-ify it ... but if mombot does this already then it's all moot.

It does half of it. There's a routine "removeFigFromData" that gets called anytime a bwarp, pwarp, or twarp fails. It doesn't update on fighit, but that'd be a tiny thing to add. Just make a daemon that does it or something.



Nah. Wouldn't that be nice.