Ok, I've gotten many helpful tips in the past from you guys, and just took a 6 month break or so. While recently reading the boards (Lots of posts, took about 4-5 days), I've learned of the PLAY rewrite. I guess Im just looking for a way to continue my instrument learning with the new system, as it seems so huge Im afraid to jump in and spend 2-3 hours (which I rarely have) just to find out Im doing something too easy or too hard. If someone could give me some helpful tips on how/what to play, etc, I'd really appreciate it.

Skills are:
Percussion 126
Strings 123
Winds 125

Any help is greatly appreciate, and thank you in advance.

-Master Ndin
"Always walk a mile in another man's shoes. That way, your a mile away, and you have his shoes."

> If someone could give me some helpful tips on how/what to play, etc, I'd really appreciate it.

On my website I have a script called Reckus NB that runs in StormFront. You edit the very beginning by putting in your instruments and tools... Then just run the script, and it automatically finds the proper style to play each of your instruments at. It will also adjust itself once it outgrows those. The only catch is that you need one of each type of instrument for it to work.
The simplest way to train instruments under Play 2.0!

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Go Aveda with the fancy scripts! You should consider making some other handy ones.


~The one who is obsessed with power.
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>You should consider making some other handy ones.

I need requests! And lots of pertinent messaging!
Anyone try out HighRoller yet? I had a lot of fun with that one, and have rolled up a couple of n00bish gnomes for testing. Works great!

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Ok, after looking at it, I think the problem is that it tries to shift to a 4th instrument, instead of going to the end and showing exp lore like it should. While not a problem, the script is done either way, it has not technically finished itself. More a cosmetic problem I think then anything. Maybe I'm just silly, I should have looked deeper before my prior post to realize that it is indeed finished at that point. The only problem I see, is that I think even if I were to remove the two #'s to make it loop, it wouldn't hit that point. Dunno for sure.

(Edit) Eh, something I just noticed is that it is technically a problem. My hands are full so I cant make it loop even if I wanted to.

Looks great. Testing it now. Thanks for the continued hard work, and sorry to be a bearer of bad news for ya. Im sure your regretting this script by now. LOL

Ok, this Im not quite sure on. I did it as a test, just to screw around with it a little. I had actually worn the pick, so it would always be on, and put a space in the stringtool section, just so it wouldnt cycle back and forth. This is the result I got. Maybe its cause I was wearing it still that screwed it up, or maybe its just my luck that all string instruments need a tool.


You put your lute in your traveler's pack.
>remove my
Remove what?
>put my in my pack
>get my spoons
What were you referring to?

You don't have one of those.


Make sure you have the proper tools to play
your instruments, and see to it that you
edit the beginning of the script to include
those tools and try again.

>
You get a pair of silver spoons from inside your traveler's pack.
>exp lore
[script done]


It still continued on to get the spoons, but because it had gotten the error, it ended the script. I promise, Ill use it how its supposed to be used now. Thinking its more an error with the change I made, than an error with your script. (just putting " " in the tool line, and wearing the pick.) I think I broke it.

-Master Ndin... A simple mage struggling to drive Aveda insane.

Its official Aveda... the prior bug you squashed about it not finishing right... make it go insane. Now, if your instrument doesnt use a tool, your screwed. I set it back to normal and it finished strings (cause it had a tool to match with) and then it broke after percussion.

-Master Ndin... the non-bard who thinks he's slowly accomplishing his goal.

>vagelo, again

Okay, I guess you're just way faster than me. Well, I spoke too soon. There was indeed three updates to Reckus NB today, and they're all your fault : )

I found a more creative bug fix. I really hope this one works out. Get your groove!

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Hot hot hot scripts, Antique P5 maps, training advice, and plenty of Bardly goodness.
Do you have the latest version of Reckus or Reckus NB?

I broke it. Im not saying where or how, Ill save that for tomorrow so you dont gotta do a 4th update today... but I broke it. It was one of the errors I've given you today. Oh well, Im off to bed now. At least I locked all 3. Have a good night, and take a vacation from editing that script for now.

-Master (at breaking Aveda's script) Ndin.

>Aveda, I think you just got your very own first QC team memeber ;P

Yep, I agree Siltoth.


~Eoworfinia~
A snow goblin reaches down and gently pets your corpse, then quickly looks about to make sure no one noticed.

>Aveda, I think you just got your very own first QC team memeber ;P

Woo! Hope they've got a day job!

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Aveda's Field Guide
http://dr.aveda.googlepages.com
Hot hot hot scripts, Antique P5 maps, training advice, and plenty of Bardly goodness.
Do you have the latest version of Reckus or Reckus NB?

>>Sort-of. Im a 24/7 stay-at-home father. Nobody judge me, there are reasons. Its not willing, and I will be returning to work at the beginning of the new year, if all goes well.

Anybody that speaks poorly of you for staying home to take care of your kid should be flogged.

~Arwinia

It's mind over matter. I don't mind, because you don't matter.

>>I think it was the 'father' part of the equation that many small-minded people might mock, not the stay-at-home part alone.

Like I said...

~Arwinia

It's mind over matter. I don't mind, because you don't matter.

>Like I had said before, it still works and locks all 3 scripts, just gotta put stuff away and re-loop it by restarting it myself.

Huh, did you try the new new new version? Sometimes stuff I save on that host doesn't immediately "publish", but the latest one says "3rd Edition" at the top..

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Aveda's Field Guide
http://dr.aveda.googlepages.com
Hot hot hot scripts, Antique P5 maps, training advice, and plenty of Bardly goodness.
Do you have the latest version of Reckus or Reckus NB?

Ok. I see what you did. I had indeed copied it too fast, and after looking at the 3rd edition, I see your fix. Groove looks like it will work perfectly, testing it now. Thanks a ton again for your patience and helping to make it work for me. I used to just love musical skills, but now I think Im addicted. Play 2.0 plus your script.. Im in heaven. Sad thing is, Im a Warrior Mage. My musics will soon pass half my survivals, and maybe someday pass my combat skills.

-Master Ndin, proud new owner of a perfect-looking script.

I just returned from a DR vacation Aveeda and haven't been touching the new PLAY yet except for with my Bard. I just tried your scripts, though and wow-- they work fantastic. I do, however, have a quick question.

Common wisdom (it seems to me? So I have been told a couple times) seems to say that you should practice something that is just a little difficult for you. Your script seems to prefer something that is moderately easy to play. Is this always the case? I've tried it with a few instruments.

>>It actually surprises me how taboo it seems to be, for the "father" to be the primary caregiver. You wouldnt believe how many odd looks, or "You must be a great father" comments I get from complete strangers when I run errands and such. I guess just the fact that Im holding my daughter outside of my home, or while my wife is not around, makes me the worlds greatest father.

I think the taboo is breaking down gradually. My husband is making the transition to stay-at-home dad in the next year, and he is wonderful at it. I love that it allows him to have a stronger bond with our son, and that he experiences a lot of things men traditionally don't as a father. There are actually a lot of dads in our area that work at home and choose this option, so it's not too hard on him.

I actually get a lot of flack for being the main breadwinner. I guess I'm supposed to feel guilty that I have a successful career? (Yeah, right.) I couldn't believe that my son's teachers stepped over the line the other day and made an inappropriate comment. You'd think it was still the 1950's or something!

~Tahra, player of Tashya~

Well, my wife has 2 physical therapies from car accident injuries in the past 2 years, and I have some legal problems that can be hindering sometimes. So for now, she is the main breadwinner, as I am the driver. She has seizures sometimes, so she's not allowed to drive. So, between the legal issues, doctor visits (baby daughter and wife) and being her driver, its hard to keep a steady job willing to fit to my schedule. I wish I could find something good to do at home, but oh well. She loves the fact that I get to bond with my daughter, and experience things that fathers dont normally get to do... like yell at the people at Medicaid. :P It was sad though.

Im on her medicaid account, its my daughter (Im on her birth certificate, which we had to provide to them) yet she has to talk to the person on the phone to authorize me to speak on her behalf. I understand people are finally starting to realize that men are (usually) capable caregivers, but this world still has a long way to go before us men are seen as equal in that regard. Until that day, Ill just smile at the people that give me the odd looks like they are retarded, and continue with my day.

I get to spend so much time with my daughter, that my wife can't comfort her near as well as I can. When she was first born, I was working and used to have to ask my wife what type of toys/techniques/etc my daughter liked most. Now, she has to come ask me those questions. Not that she's any less of a mother than most, just that I spend more time with her nowadays. Now she asks me which foods my daughter likes, toys, whether she's crawling or not, etc.

Anyhow, glad to hear your husband is good at what he does, and may you both have happiness and joy in your lives with your child. Sorry to hear about the teacher problem, its things like this that have me and my wife wanting to home-school our daughter, and we aren't using a daycare center until our daughter is old enough to at least let us know somehow that something bad happened while in someone elses care.

As this is off-topic, we'll probably get this thread shut down shortly, but its fine while it lasted.

-Master (Proud Father) Ndin

Y'all can still chat, just mosey over to the "Bards in Real Life" folder. :)

-V

(There is nothing more adorable than a father holding his little baby. Nothing. Period.)


"Reject me not, sweet sounds! oh, let me live,
Till doom espy my towers and scatter them.
A city spell-bound under the aging sun,
Music my rampart, and my only one."
-Edna St. Vincent-Millay