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Ok, this is a pretty weird problem, and maybe one I shouldn't even be worried about because it's kind of a cosmetic thing.

There's a church with a door. The only reason there's a door there is that it's stupid to have a church without a door. I don't want the player to ever enter the church through the door. It also looks nice with the windows.

My beta tester ran into the following situation. He said, "Pastor, unlock door" and the default response was "What do you want the pastor to unlock the door with?". The tester said that this makes him think he ought to go looking for a key, and since that's not the case in this game, it would be nice to have some other response that makes it clear to the user that no one's opening the door and there's no point in pursuing it. I think it's a good point. It's one thing for the player to not be sure whether he should enter through a door or a window, but it's another to bring up a "key" that doesn't exist.

I tried some variations on "Instead of asking the pastor to try unlocking the door, say "That's never going to happen". But the response is always the same as above, because you haven't supplied a second noun.

So I tried to do this ridiculous hack:



Two things aren't working. The program isn't supplying the missing noun, and the custom response isn't firing even when the second noun is explicit:



This variation and others like it either gave me an error or didn't work:


So... the questions are, is this the best way to do this? And if so, what's wrong with this code?

Thanks!

OK, I just imported this code into a clean project and it's working there. It turns out I get the responses I get because the pastor is wearing a suit and tie.

This fixed it:


Still wondering if this is the best way to do this though.

also





Why didn't that work?

The example 351 in chapter 17.30 explains how to supply missing nouns for NPC actions.


This applies only when the player is the one doing the action. You need

Thanks Nitku, I'll give that a try!