Why does reset() not work if stop() is called before it? That makes no damn sense...

It's like, instead of saying "stop what you're doing and try again" you say "try again, THEN stop what you're doing."

 

But I can solve all your problems... trust me, this next section of code will fix every issue you've ever experienced:

 

While 1 == 1

   debug.notification("I hate this goddamn engine")

EndWhile

 

Or at least if it doesn't solve the problem, it gives some much needed venting.

It's better than my other usual thing:

 

Event OnLoad()

   ;impressive code goes here!

EndEvent

I was asking myself the other day if I should recommend you to post this as a blog entry as this is too important for people to have in a thread which is drown beneath "OMG MY PRON MOD DOESN*T WORK HAPLZ!!"

Now with that out of the system...

Isn't "reset" just what it does?
Resetting variables and quest stages, if you take the word by its defintion.
On the other hand, if the function was called "restart" it wouldn't make sense.
I hope this made sense.

Not trying to be an arse, I know exactly how frustrated you were at the time.

I was asking myself the other day if I should recommend you to post this as a blog entry as this is too important for people to have in a thread which is drown beneath "OMG MY PRON MOD DOESN*T WORK HAPLZ!!"

 

Now with that out of the system...

 

Isn't "reset" just what it does?

Resetting variables and quest stages, if you take the word by its defintion.

On the other hand, if the function was called "restart" it wouldn't make sense.

I hope this made sense.

 

Not trying to be an arse, I know exactly how frustrated you were at the time.

 

I didn't realise the blog feature existed. I've been wanting a place to put my modding WTFs but didn't want to dick around with starting a WordPress blog myself or anything heheh.

 

Ehhhh, Ehhhhh ehhhhhhh... so Reset() doesn't actually really do a reset though. Resetting suggests that you would flush and refill to default states, when what actually happens is it just flushes. All aliases get turned to None, all stages get set to 0. Depending on your personal definition of what a reset is, that may be good enough in your opinion. Which is totally fine. What I just said is what it is documented as doing.

 

The crazy thing is how not only does the Reset explode, but it messes up the Start() that comes after it when you call Stop() before it! Isn't that wild? I assume there must be some broken race condition in the engine itself. Technically what should have happened is I never noticed, because Start() should have refilled the aliases after the Reset(). So maybe the problem is actually Stop() is broken in the engine? This is crazy stuff.

What I just said is what it is documented as doing.

OK, I see what you mean, more on this below.

 

...This is crazy stuff.

I sense this to be some sort of "reconstruct" as in, they didn't plan or think about the event of actually restarting quests if they failed on unhandled reasons etc. So they sat down, developed something which worked for the moment.

 

I didn't realise the blog feature existed. I've been wanting a place to put my modding WTFs but didn't want to dick around with starting a WordPress blog myself or anything heheh.

I'm glad you did! Soon if you have enough patience to continue you'll have a "Traps to avoid while scripting" guide.