Find the trigger in the list of triggers, they're listed by what they match on. Edit it. Change the trigger text from
<*>
to
<*>*
then change the #say line in the commands section from %1 to %1,%2

This is tryiung to make sure the mud isn't sending the prompt along with other stuff on the same line. If it is then hopefully the second * will catch the other output, and the %2 will make sure the other output is still displayed.

It's a problem I've had when I was using mushclient as well. Some muds, in fact most it seems, don't properly terminate the prompt. Either the prompt appears at the beginning of a line of output, or otherwise it is hard for the client to distinguish it as a distinct line. This is sadly not unique to VIP.

Wish I could fix this for you, but honestly I've no more idea than you.

I'm assuming for some reason the mud's wimpy setting isn't helping enough? Wimpy is basically an auto flee system most muds have.

All very true, and I can actually understand this since I've had to play without prompts before. I always found them incredibly irritating and spammy, so I've had to turn them off on more than one occasion so I can actually keep track of the action.

And as I said, I've never actually managed to trigger on a prompt before sadly. I haven't tried with VIP, but I've tried with GMud and MushClient without success. There was even a topic I found before on the mushclient forum discussing how hard it is to trigger on prompts sometimes.

Without actually trying MM and trying to script it directly myself there isn't a lot I can do. I might try that some time actually, but no promises on my success or failure.

Well most games have a help file on prompts, so you can type "help prompt". Most allow you to customise the prompt in some way, allowing you to remove the < and >. There are also sometimes ways to check your health, though this doesn't help with mana or other stats sadly.

Hurrah! yes indeed finally! after many attempts that does indeed work.

I'm not sure why spaces should make a difference, ---- but so it goes.

thanks a lot Cx2, I owe you a favor.

the only trouble is, I'm not likely to get much mud time this weekend owing to a small role I have in a production, ----- but never mind! I'll get to it certainly soon.

Well it certainly does work.

Hopefully this will give me a chance to actually try some mudding out with an interesting game and so look into scripting, and thus be able to deal with this problem should it occur again in another mud, ----- that's assuming your script wouldn't work in Medeivia (interesting, ---- i'll have to try it).

I'm afraid thus far the only thing close to scripting i've done is to use the in built alias feature of the game to set some quick commands for casting spells, ---- but I'm sure I'll learn soon.

Medeivia did appear to, but I will admit I was mainly trying it for interest's sake and as a comparison of the problem, sinse the right up suggests it's far more hack n' slash than materia magica.

The only other muds I've been tempted t look into are some of the Iron realms ones like Lusternia, but I'll give mm a good chance first and see how that goes, sinse it seems to both have combat and lots of quests, ---- and I've now even got a sound pack for it as well.

It'd be nice to find a space mud with quests, ---- but I've yet to hear of one, and those I've heard of like Miriana, Federation 2 or Humanity seem far more about pvp and economics than quests and exploration.

That's sad, sinse there's imho far more scope for interesting quest plotting in scifi, sinse many of the fantasy games (even those with quests), have worlds that are often just basically rips of D&D, and the potential for world building, unique races and environments and interesting quests (everything from basic to epic), is very much there in scifi.

But this seems to be the way things go, and lots of people seemto have this bizarre desire to slaughter other human players.

Well, I could see magitech working quite nicely, ---- something similar to the Final fantasy universe for example, ----- or certain starwars elements come to that.

One of the things that pleased me in Smugglers 4 was the greater array of missions, and I've made several suggestions upgrade wise about increasing this aspect of the game, sinse it is rather fun, and could be made very open ended in the smugglers type system.

apparently eeve online does feature as many diverse missions and the like as world of warcraft does (though I know far fewer people who are eeve players than wow players), but I suppose when you've got the amount of monetary resources going into a game as the big developers have, you can afford to satisfy everyone.

Rise of the golems showed me pretty well that quests are not popular, sinse when I suggested them on the forums when the game was in it's developement phase, I got shouted down by the pvp mob, ---- that's why I no longer play that game.