Time left until Observer Mode

[bscharff]

Why not tell Trials how long they have left until Observer Mode?
At least tell them an estimate on how long they have left ("About __ minutes left").

[cbk1994]

I thought it did do this?

[bscharff]

I asked a few trials, they said it doesn't.

I just thought it might be nice to tell them how much longer they have.

What would even be better would be to have some sort of clientsided var (player.obstimeleft) or something

[MysticX2X]

Probably because they ran out their real time and thats the time where they go to observer mode every few often.

[Rufus]

I don't know if I've misinterpreted the OP or not, but I think he means time left until you hit observer mode when your time has ran out, which would be once your free time has already been and gone.

[cbk1994]

He means like time left until you go into observer mode.

I suppose you could do something like this for events

PHP Code:

if ( ( player.isTrial && player.timeLeft > 500 ) || ( ! player.isTrial ) )
{
  teleportPlayerToEvent();
  w00t();
}
else if ( player.isTrial && player.timeLeft <= 500 )
{
  player.chat = "Sorry, you don't have enough time! You must have atleast 500 seconds to join. Upgrade to P2P to remove this.";
} 


So observers couldn't join events.

Or even if it is in less than 10 seconds, warp them to a safe place until they're back. So they aren't stuck in events or blocking something, etc.

[bscharff]

I really would like this done. I'll keep bumping it lawl.

[Tigairius]

I like this idea.

[zokemon]

I vote yes on timetillobserver variable!

[Admins]

So some way to access the time from script (serverside) or for displaying it on clientside?

[Chompy]

Originally Posted by Stefan

So some way to access the time from script (serverside) or for displaying it on clientside?

player.timetillobserver as Zero said?

[napo_p2p]

Originally Posted by Stefan

So some way to access the time from script (serverside) or for displaying it on clientside?

The Graal client should display the time left for the trials, but there should also be a way for scripts to access the variable.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Stefan

So some way to access the time from script (serverside) or for displaying it on clientside?

From the script, so that if someone is in an event you can safely warp them away 10 seconds or so before observer mode happens (this way you don't have the problem with players sticking somewhere).

[Admins]

The observer time is accessble neither by client nor server side, the simpliest thing that could be added is to send a trigger to an npc to do the warping or so. Normally you can also catch the events triggered when the player is switched to observer mode though.

[Crow]

Originally Posted by Stefan

The observer time is accessble neither by client nor server side, the simpliest thing that could be added is to send a trigger to an npc to do the warping or so. Normally you can also catch the events triggered when the player is switched to observer mode though.

I would love to have an event thats triggered like 5 seconds before you are switched into observer or something. With the event that triggers when you are switched, I just cant warp people out of events, they would still stand around, and be warped out after they get back.