Using onlinetime or something similar...
 

I've been toying around with the idea of a sort of exp system based off of onlinetime, but I'm having some serious trouble getting any thoughts relative to this from my NATs.

In principle, a player would make a class, and when made, it would set a flag in their account equal to their online time. Then when the player goes to some sort of shop (we'll call it an exp. shop just for sanity's sake), the shop's script compares the player's current online time to the time in the flag. It would find the difference between the two and give the player exp according to that amount (calculation still to be figured). The shop would then set the original online time flag to the player's current online time.

As far as I've heard, there probably isn't a command for detecting online time, so is there any way possible, if this is so, that a system could be rigged to work LIKE this without having timeouts run for 60 seconds and adding on, to prevent lag? (Like Mithica's horrible EXP system).

Any help would be much appreciated.

Re: Using onlinetime or something similar...
 

not that hard.. i could do it when i have the time

use a counting var in a timeout in your system NPC...
so u just refresh the time string every 10 seconds and there is no big lagg...

erm.....
or just use timevar..

this.second=int(timevar)%60;
this.minutes=int(timevar/60)%60;

that will give seconds and minutes.

figure the rest out from there, im not your ***** ;)

Timevar is server onlinetime.

ok then..

use the var i did b4
then do..

onlinetime=(int(timevar)%60)-this.second;

Yes but it works offline too, so you could still be able to test the NPC to some extent.

he meant time for server, not player, but i fixed it

That would mean everyone has the same online time :/

Anyhow...

NPC Code:

---

if (playerenters&&!(hasweapon(-OnlineTimeSystem))) toweapon -OnlineTimeSystem;

//#CLIENTSIDE

if ((created||timeout)&&isweapon) {

  setstring client.seconds,#v((strtofloat(#s(client.seconds))+  0.05)%60);

  if (strtofloat(#s(client.seconds))==0) {

    setstring client.seconds,#v(strtofloat((#s(client.minutes))+  1)%60);

    if (strtofloat(#s(client.minutes))==0) setstring client.hours,#v(strtofloat(#s(client.hours))+1);

  }

  timeout=0.05;

}

---

Would be an acceptable way of easily keeping track of the online time a player has, though it would reset if the player's account is reset.

Wow, really good! We think we may use that, with your permission, of course...

Wow.. sorry for not responding to here for a while, but I've been pre-occupied lately (ie. doing damn near everything for Delteria. That time system, Squeaker... simple efficient and really rather nice. So, with your permission, could I use that code for the EXP system I'm creating? Full credit would be given to you for the timer. ^^

I don't think going by onlinetime for anything is a good idea. :(

It's a work in progress... again, these are just ideas. Once we get everything finished, we DON'T want Delteria to be known as a newbie PK server, so we AREN'T going to give Experience for player killing. So I feel that the best basis for experience that I can come up with for now is online time...

Feel free to use it. :)

You can think of something else, just script everything for onlinetime now, untill you find a better away. :)

And PK'ing is one of the funnest things on graal. :D

I agree x.x But since Delteria has such a bad name, we're trying hard to pull a complete 180 now that Ice is gone.. Err, anyway this has gone off topic.

Fixed a few slight flaws, and with the help of Nyght, got a rough EXP system up and running based around onlinetime. Thanks again Grim :)

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Like delteria is liek the Noob Factory it will neever Become Un-Nooby it's been Nooby Since it got up Like almost everyone there Uses Npcs and Pauses I Got like Alota deaths by stupid Npcs and crap Omg and Using Online time for Exp omg like total Lameness how Dull And Saying pking For exp is for Noobs lool Hell no fool!!

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Though it sounds like a good system you should decide if you want to do hours or not, and maybe you could do an age script!!! that would be ub3r leet, and your appearance changes...somehow...that would be a fun server to work on p2p or no?