[quote="Roody_Yogurt"]Yeah, it's not really a bug; it's just an all-or-nothing dealie. If you have any character.after code, you're going to have to add make DoAsk responses for every feasible subject (going the normal 'select xobject/ case [object name]' route). The DoAsk routine only prints those defaults if there is no character.after code at all.[/quote]
Somebody should make a game some day with a bunch of Hugo-standard NPCs. Maybe if I get too frustrated, I'll do just that! ;)

But I think it's good to work with the defaults of an IF system, not against them, so I generally try to use the default library behavior when it's appropriate.

select xobject
      case player : return false
      case object : return false

Actually, Johnny points out that you could just return false from asking about the player or character object, like:

[code]
select xobject
case player : return false
case object : return false
[/code]

So yeah.

Yeah, it's not really a bug; it's just an all-or-nothing dealie. If you have any character.after code, you're going to have to add make DoAsk responses for every feasible subject (going the normal 'select xobject/ case [object name]' route). The DoAsk routine only prints those defaults if there is no character.after code at all.

elseif xobject = player
	{
		if not object.after
			VMessage(&DoAsk, 3)     ! asking about yourself
	}
	elseif xobject = object
	{
		if not object.after
			VMessage(&DoAsk, 4)     ! asking about him/herself
	}

case 3:  print "Hopefully "; The(player); " know"; \
			MatchSubject(player); " as much as anyone."
case 4
{
  print CThe(object); " would probably rather not talk about "; object.pronoun #4; "."
}

I noticed this code in DoAsk:

[code]elseif xobject = player
{
if not object.after
VMessage(&DoAsk, 3) ! asking about yourself
}
elseif xobject = object
{
if not object.after
VMessage(&DoAsk, 4) ! asking about him/herself
}[/code]
I hadn't known that default messages provide for the PC asking about himself or for the PC asking an NPC about that same NPC. I didn't test the second condition, but when I try asking an NPC about the player object, I just get a blank line. Note that if the NPC's after property has a default DoAsk response, that response is displayed. I get the blank line when asking an NPC that doesn't have a default condition.

The corresponding code in VMessage doesn't look like it should cause any problems:
[code]case 3: print "Hopefully "; The(player); " know"; \
MatchSubject(player); " as much as anyone."
case 4
{
print CThe(object); " would probably rather not talk about "; object.pronoun #4; "."
}[/code]