GS2 'cron jobs'

[LoneAngelIbesu]

Originally Posted by Tigairius

There is, but scheduled events are cancelled when the npcserver restarts, so it would be better to use a sleep or a timeout which is not interrupted by the npcserver.

Timeouts are reset each time the weapon is updated, right? Is there any way to prevent this, or would I have to create a separate weapon for the timeout?

Originally Posted by Loriel

This is retarded, just do nothing until a player actually enters the shop and then calculate how much restocking you have to do.

That would defeat the purpose. I don't want the shops to have an endless stock of items at all times. I want a static amount of items each 24 hours; more specific, I want to make sure that there's nothing out of stock after 24 hours. Calculating when 24 hours has passed based on players entering the level seems overly complicated, especially since no facet of the system is used in level NPCs.

[Tigairius]

Originally Posted by LoneAngelIbesu

Timeouts are reset each time the weapon is updated, right? Is there any way to prevent this, or would I have to create a separate weapon for the timeout?

There's not really a way to prevent that, but loriel gives a good suggestion.

Originally Posted by LoneAngelIbesu

That would defeat the purpose. I don't want the shops to have an endless stock of items at all times.

I think what Loriel means is, save a timevar2 each time the shop is restocked, then each time someone enters the shop, subtract the saved timevar2 from the current timevar2, if it's > 86400 (24 hours), then divide the result by 86400 and it will give you how many days have passed since the last restock. Then you can stock based on that data. It's probably the best way to approach it.

[Inverness]

Originally Posted by Tigairius

I think what Loriel means is, save a timevar2 each time the shop is restocked, then each time someone enters the shop, subtract the saved timevar2 from the current timevar2, if it's > 86400 (24 hours), then divide the result by 86400 and it will give you how many days have passed since the last restock. Then you can stock based on that data. It's probably the best way to approach it.

Or you can just do serverr.restocktime = timevar2 + 86400 then if (timevar2 >= serverr.restocktime) restock().

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Inverness

Or you can just do serverr.restocktime = timevar2 + 86400 then if (timevar2 >= serverr.restocktime) restock().

That's what I'd do, but I'd save it in a 'server.' var; no need to send it to all the players (not a big deal here, but it's a good idea to encourage people not to use serverr when not needed).

EDIT: To be honest, I'd probably use a database NPC.

[DarkReaper0]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

EDIT: To be honest, I'd probably use a database NPC.

This.

But I'd use the database NPC for a variety of different shop functions like keeping inventory or whatever.

Because if you just use it to time it's a waste of resources, and that makes Scripters want to beat you upside the head with a Pipe Wrench.

[Tigairius]

Originally Posted by Inverness

Or you can just do serverr.restocktime = timevar2 + 86400 then if (timevar2 >= serverr.restocktime) restock().

Yeah, that's basically just a different way to do what I just said.