Question Crash bug - trigger

I seem to have an issue with mob speech triggers. No matter what I do, it seems to crash on %name%. I am including one of the triggers.


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Librarian Speech~
0 G 100
~
if %actor.is_pc%
eval name %actor.name%

wait 2 sec
mecho The librarian eyes you briefly, sizing you up before beginning to speak.
wait 20 sec
mecho %name%, she begins, "I can help you with but little of what you seek."
wait 20 sec
say "The collection here is modest, and much of the material is of great age."
wait 20 sec
say "I am told that true scholars must go to the High Tower..."
wait 20 sec
say "I personally have not had a chance to examine their collection, but"
wait 20 sec
say "there is no doubt that they have much magical knowledge of worth."
wait 20 sec
mecho Turning back to the shelves, she falls silent.
end

This doesn't look like a TBA trigger. Where is it coming from and are you trying to put it into TBA?

Also, why are you evaluating the name?

Hello all, in port Rio with my first decent internet access, less than a month left of deployment.

As Parna said there is no need to eval, just use:
mecho %actor.name%, she begins, "I can help you with but little of what you seek."

Also I would avoid creating variable names that match existing variables, I'm guessing that is what is causing the crash.

As much as I see no reason to evaluate a name. And that's not a matter of personal preference, it's just a bad thing to do.

What is arguably a good idea is to do this:

set name %actor.name%

(I still wouldn't do that, since it makes little sense to add an extra line when you only have their name in the script once anyway.)

Evaluate uses more cpu time than set, and should only be used in the few scenarios where it is actually required.

For everything else set is superior.

Regardless of that though, I see no reason this should cause a crash.