Re: Too Many Verb Calls

• Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 13:47:12 PDT
• From:
  Don Schwarz <don@darkowl.tezcat.com>
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  darkowl@tezcat.com
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> > On my MOO, I have a combat system.  Now, the combat system calls alot of 
> > verbs for each round of the fight, and after about 20 rounds, I get a 
> > traceback, with the error 'Too many verb calls'.  Is there any way to 
> > stop this?
> 
> Don't make that many verb calls. :) Really though, I've programmed combat 
> many moons myself and unless I get myself into a infinite loop, I never 
> get that error. Try to merge as many verbs as possible.
>
You could always increase the number of recursive verb calls by changing 
the value of MAX_VERB_DEPTH in options.h but I wouldn't recommend setting 
this number too high because it will cause more lag if someone accidently 
makes an infinite loop.

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