by VeryGnawty » April 7th, 2015, 7:26 am
Assuming that the subject and the 'tist are good enough, there is no limit to how complicated triggers can get.
The question isn't how many conditions you can put on a trigger as much as how well you will remember the trigger. If you have a trigger with a billion different possible outcomes, it probably wouldn't help that much because the person triggering you wouldn't be able to remember and use each potential result.
You will run out of practical utility for a trigger long before you will hit any barrier to what you can physically do with a trigger. The only time the complication may not matter is for random triggers such as one that makes you horny when you hear certain words. But if you are talking about triggers which you and other people are going to intentionally use, then I would advise making the conditions of using the trigger as simple as possible.
In general, the more complicated a trigger is, the more difficult it will be to actually use.
What you are talking about is more like a multiple option trigger. This is a trigger that will trigger a different outcome depending on what the input is. I have such a trigger which has almost a dozen different results depending on what my masters say, and I think it also has other things like conditions and durations built into the various results. It's not something that I would particularly want to talk about publicly, but you can ask me about it in a private message if you are interested in learning about it.