Time limitations on auctions
 

I'm making an auction house on my server that is ran entirely by one NPC. I know how to make everything for bidding and selling, however, the time limit is what's nailing me. I have an idea, but I have to know more first.
1st question-does timevar2 continue to increase, or does it stop at a certain number?
2nd is timevar2 exact seconds? Would lag throw it off?
Ex: would it be safe to say that timevar2+3600 is 1 hour from now?
Thanks!

Timevar2 (serverside) keeps going and going. It doesn't stop.


It's exact, and very accurate. Measures seconds since 1/1/1970. It even measures within a millionth of a second I believe.


Yup. Although, I would do int(timevar2) + 3600;

I hope that helped. Good luck with your script.

Hrm...I know people hate this :frown: but what am i doing wrong?

NPC Code:

---

if (created)

{

  setshape 1,32,32;

}

if(actiontime)

{

  triggeraction x,y,timer,#v(int(timevar2));

}

if(actionsell)

{

  removeweapon #p(0);

  setstring serverr.bid_#p(2)_item,#p(0);

  setstring serverr.bid_#p(2)_acct,#p(3);

  setstring serverr.bid_#p(2)_img,#p(4);

  setstring serverr.bid_#p(2)_price,#p(1);

  setstring serverr.bid_#p(2)_time,#v(int(timevar2));

}

if(actionreclaim2)

{

  with(getplayer(#s(serverr.bid_#p(1)_acct)))

  {

    addweapon #s(serverr.bid_#p(0)_item);

  }

  setstring serverr.bid_#p(0)_item,0;

  setstring serverr.bid_#p(0)_acct,0;

  setstring serverr.bid_#p(0)_img,0;

  setstring serverr.bid_#p(0)_price,0;

}

//#CLIENTSIDE

if(created)

{

  timeout=1;

}

if(playerchats)

{

  tokenize #c;

//selling

//item name, price, table number, acct, img

  if(strequals(#t(0),/sell))

  {

    if(hasweapon(#t(1)) && !strcontains(#t(1),staff) && strtofloat(#t(2))<100001 && strtofloat(#s(serverr.bid_#t(3)_item))==0 && strtofloat(#t(3))<23 && !strcontains(#t(1),system))

    {

      triggeraction x,y,sell,#t(1),#t(2),#t(3),#a,#W;

    }

    else

    {

      say2 Illegal!;

    }

  }

}

if(timeout)

{

  triggeraction x,y,time,time;

  if(actiontimer)

 {

    for(this.i=0;this.i<20;this.i++)

    {

       if(strtofloat(#s(serverr.bid_#v(this.i)_time))+(10  )==#p(0))

       {

//reclaim2 :this.i, seller account

          triggeraction x,y,reclaim2,#v(this.i),#s(serverr.bid_#v(this.i)_  acct);

        }

    }

  }

  timeout=1;

}

---

why don't you try debugging it yourself first? -.-
see if the triggeraction is being called, and etc. seriously, if this trend continues, i think you should be banned from the forums.

nvm, Fixed it.
Also, is it posible to display the image of a weapon that is not the player's selected weapon?

#W(index)

for the selected weapon, it's just #W I believe.

I would suggest just to do the entire thing serverside.

This generally won't cause lag

timeout = time of auction;

If the auction ends before that
timeout = 0;