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Sounds pretty cool but then it could blend into the text and get really confusing.
So I vote "No"

this is good, tho i may be wrong but it may already be developed, just not implemented in the scripting engine.., except u cant make it go to fifty different places or w/e u said, cuz thats what LINKDEST does...

so yeah, in theory the linktext works, but u should test adn see if it is implemented. the syntax for linktext is:

$LINKTEXT{linknumber} := "{description}"

so on the first link of one of your pages, in the page script, put:

$LINKTEXT01 := "This is new description for this link!"

alright, so i tested it, cuz yeah, i wanted to see for myself, and it does infact work, so i moved this to adv forum.

Yeah, it works. I use it all the time on one of my advanced story games I'm working on.

A good example of having changeable link text:

The link might be a skill check. The player has to roll 2d6 against one of their skills, and get higher than it, to succeed. By altering the link text in the Page Script, you can tell them what their chance is of succeeding.

()      Sneak up behind the guard (Stealth=6. Chance=50%)
()      Shoot at the guard from where you are standing (Firearms=2. Chance=20%)

Using variables, you can display whatever their current Stealth score is in the link's text, then calculate the chance of that score succeeding a 2d6 roll, and display the Chance of Success in the link as well. That way, if there's almost no chance of them succeeding the dice roll, they might choose a different option instead.

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%CHANCE1 := 100/12
%CHANCE1 := %CHANCE1 * %STEALTHSKILL
$LINKTEXT1 := "Sneak up behind the guard (Stealth=" + %STEALTHSKILL + ". Chance=" + %CHANCE1 + "%"

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If %STEALTHSKILL was 6 then when you go to that page, the first link would look like:

()      Sneak up behind the guard (Stealth=6. Chance=50%)

oops! In my example, I just guessed the percentage chance for the skill score off the top of my head. I realised immediately after posting that the percentage Chance numbers I gave in my example are wrong, but besides that, the actual idea is still right :)

lol, good example! i should include the $LINKTEXT in the intermediate scripting article, will do tonight or tomorrow morning...

CAN WE MAKE EM CHANGE COLORS?

lol thats awesome and i will add it in a bit... just gotta get some organizing here in the real world done and i can actually focus the article. (gonna add all these discoveries to the Intermediate/advanced article)

ROFLMAO THIS IS AWESOME!

necro necro necro

Ahem, this still isn't in any of the articles other than the Scripting Code Reference. This is a cool feature, but not many people will know of it...

Yeah, there's a lot of cool info in the Advanced Editor Forum that has to be mined for to find  ;)

Also in the text scripting. I think I am going to create a Complete Guide to Scripting.

That would be rather ambitious, but certainly worthwhile  =)