Make an NPC use OOC or Auction

[Lord of Steel]

I wanted my buffing NPC's in East Commons to use ooc and advertise like a real player. I couldn't figure out how to do that so i make the player think they are seeing OOC text. It's basically messages sent to the client in the format of a PC OOC. This is from my global.pl file

sub EVENT_ENTERZONE { 
	if($zoneid == 22 ) 
	{
		quest::settimer("syal",390);
		quest::settimer("garren",400);
		quest::settimer("sweet",410);
		quest::settimer("mezzum",420);
		#quest::settimer("avienda",270);
		
	}
}
sub EVENT_TIMER {
	if ($timer eq "syal") 
	{
		$client->Message(2, "Syal says out of character, 'Casting Shammy buffs for donation near the magus'");
	}
	if ($timer eq "garren") 
	{
		$client->Message(2, "Garren says out of character, 'Cleric for hire!  Castin Aego line buffs for donations near shady.");
	}
	if ($timer eq "sweet") 
	{
		$client->Message(2, "Sweet Leaf says out of character, 'Do you need Damage Shields?  Come by Commander Farang because I need donations.'");
	}
	if ($timer eq "mezzum") 
	{
		$client->Message(2, "Mezzum says out of character, 'Casting crack and haste in the tunnel'");
	}
	if ($timer eq "avienda") 
	{
		$client->Message(2, "Avienda says out of character, 'Selling everything on me!  I'm on the crate near banker Cogswell.  Come inspect and make an offer!'");
	}
 
 }

[Kingly_Krab]

I made a post a while back about this here. Although you can just do this:

quest::we(1, $npc->GetCleanName() . " says out of character, 'BLAH');

[Huppy]

I implemented a bunch of buff bots in PoK (hanging around main bank like the old days)(my old days anyways,haha), but I just used an enter_zone "ooc" style which did it just once, since the npcs are static anyways. I set up some npc "traders" in bazaar as well, but had to stock them with pricing and have them doing a serverwide "auction" message.