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Time limit on zone

How would I make a quest that did this: I want a timer to start when the person zones in, and then 10 minutes later kick them back to Pok. I don't know where I would put that quest if I wrote it.

Easily done. You'd use player.pl, and set a 10 minute timer under sub EVENT_ENTERZONE. Then, under sub EVENT_TIMER when it expires, move them to PoK. The timer would be on the individual player, so you will have multiple timers going at once for multiple players.

So, basically would it be something like this:

Code:

sub EVENT_ENTERZONE{

quest::settimer("zonekick",30);

}

sub EVENT_TIMER{

if ($timer eq "zonekick"){

 quest::stoptimer("zonekick");

 quest::movepc(202, -107,-190.-156);

 }

}

I have never used timers in any quests before, so I'm not sure what I'm doing

Yep, that's exactly it, except that timer is for 30 seconds.

Haha, yeah because I was planning on testing it and didn't want to wait 10 minutes to see if it ported me.

Yeah I do the same. :)

Another quick question, if I wanted a monster to spawn based on the person's class that enters the zone, would I just do something like if

Code:

if ($class eq "Warrior"){

quest::spawn(ID,0,0,x,y,z)

}

in the sub event_enterzone and repeat that for other classes using elsif?

I see no reason why that wouldn't work.

Alright, I don't think my timers are working. In the player.pl I made it like this

Code:

sub EVENT_ENTERZONE{

quest::settimer("zonekick",10);

quest::ze("You have 10 minutes to finish.");

if ($class eq "Warrior"){

 quest::spawn(1207, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.50);

}

elsif ($class eq "Ranger"){

 quest::spawn(1214, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.50);

}

}

sub EVENT_TIMER{

if ($timer eq "zonekick"){

 quest::stoptimer("zonekick");

 quest::movepc(202, -107,-190.-156);

 }

}

sub EVENT_DEATH{

quest::depopzone(1);

}

The correct monsters are spawning based on the class, which is good, but the zone-wide emote doesn't show and the timer doesn't seem to work either. I lowered it to 10 seconds just so I could test it. I have this is another quest and the timer doesn't work here either.

Code:

EVENT_SPAWN{

 quest::attack($name);

}

sub EVENT_DEATH{

 quest::summonitem(20488);

 quest::summonitem(20487);

 quest::emote("collapses to the ground.");

 quest::settimer("peaceout",5);

}

sub EVENT_TIMER{

 if ($timer eq "peaceout"){

 quest::stoptimer("peaceout");

 quest::movepc(202, -107,-190.-156);

}

}

Are you sure the timer isn't working? Or could it be the period instead of a comma in the movepc() commands?

I fixed the commas thing, but its still not working. Now the monsters arent even spawning when I zone in.

Hopefully you didn't change the periods in the spawn() statements. Only the movepc() statements.

Did you change anything else or is it still the same script as above?

Same, just changed the commas in the timers.

Is the zone static? I am not sure if once it triggers, it will allow it to trigger again if the zone is still up. I've never tried.

No, it's not static.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Randymarsh9 (Post 167819)

Alright, I don't think my timers are working. In the player.pl I made it like this

Code:

sub EVENT_ENTERZONE{

quest::settimer("zonekick",10);

quest::ze("You have 10 minutes to finish.");

if ($class eq "Warrior"){

 quest::spawn(1207, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.50);

}

elsif ($class eq "Ranger"){

 quest::spawn(1214, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.50);

}

}

sub EVENT_TIMER{

if ($timer eq "zonekick"){

 quest::stoptimer("zonekick");

 quest::movepc(202, -107,-190.-156);

 }

}

sub EVENT_DEATH{

quest::depopzone(1);

}

Code:

EVENT_SPAWN{

 quest::attack($name);

}

sub EVENT_DEATH{

 quest::summonitem(20488);

 quest::summonitem(20487);

 quest::emote("collapses to the ground.");

 quest::settimer("peaceout",5);

}

sub EVENT_TIMER{

 if ($timer eq "peaceout"){

 quest::stoptimer("peaceout");

 quest::movepc(202, -107,-190.-156);

}

}

The timer in your monster code won't work because an npc will not set, and persist a timer if it is dead.

as for your player code... try this.

Code:

sub EVENT_ENTERZONE

{

quest::settimer("zonekick",10);

quest::ze("You have 10 minutes to finish.");

   if ($class eq "Warrior")

      {

      quest::spawn(1207, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.50);

      }

   elsif ($class eq "Ranger")

      {

      quest::spawn(1214, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.50);

      }

}

sub EVENT_TIMER{

if ($timer eq "zonekick"){

 quest::stoptimer("zonekick");

 quest::movepc(202, -107, -190, -156);

 }

}

sub EVENT_DEATH{

quest::stoptimer("zonekick");

quest::depopzone();

}

If it continues not to work. Can you post Error Logs?

Just a minor thing error with the quest documentation I discovered I was digging in questmgr.cpp - quest::ze needs to be in the format:
quest::ze(#colourid, "Message");

Then it works, same with quest::we (world emote). 15 is yellow text, FYI, so
quest::we(15, "You hear wispers on the wind, that becon you to the Karanas");

Will print exactly that on all clients connected to world in yellow. It uses the same function as the GM command: #emote <name|world|zone> <#colourid> <message>

Quote:

Originally Posted by BWStripes (Post 168100)

I'll add that to the wiki, good catch!