Time limitations on auctions

[excaliber7388]

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!

[napo_p2p]

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

1st question-does timevar2 continue to increase, or does it stop at a certain number?

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

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

2nd is timevar2 exact seconds? Would lag throw it off?

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

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

Ex: would it be safe to say that timevar2+3600 is 1 hour from now?
Thanks!

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

I hope that helped. Good luck with your script.

[excaliber7388]

Hrm...I know people hate this 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;

}

---

[ZeLpH_MyStiK]

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.

[excaliber7388]

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

[Ajira]

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

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

#W(index)

[ApothiX]

Originally Posted by Ajira

#W(index)

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

[jake13jake]

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;