Access Players Datums Offline

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Aug 10 2010, 9:27 am
I'm not exactly sure on how I should handle this, let me explain. Every player will have 2 datums associated with them.
Cave
    var
        _size
        _defense //etc.
        
Dragon
    var
        _name
        _strength
        _defense //etc..


The object is to do things such as quests and attacking other player's Dragons. Attacking a Dragon will take say, an hour to complete. I want players to be able to attack an enemy's Dragon, even if the enemy is offline.

How would I go about handling this?
Aug 10 2010, 9:35 am
The dragons could just be held elsewhere, for example you create a DragonManager datum, that holds Dragons and who owns them (probably just a ckey of the owner, as they may be offline) in some form. Makes one of these DragonManagers, as a world variable, and the Dragon (if referenced by the DragonManager) will stick around after the user has logged out (as long as the world carries on running). Datums themselves are not tied to users, unless you tie them in that way.
Aug 10 2010, 10:23 am
In response to Stephen001
I took your advice, however I think that I may be doing something wrong. Here is what I have so far:
var/DragonHolder/DragonHolder=new()
    //Initialize Datum

DragonHolder
    var
        list/_dragons 
            //Holds all dragons
        
        
Dragon
    var
        owner       //Dragon Variables
        strength
        name
        
mob
    New()
        ..()
        var/Dragon/Dragon = new()
            //Create a new Dragon
            
        Dragon.owner = ckey
        Dragon.name = input(src,"Name your Dragon!") as text
        Dragon.strength = rand(10,100)
            //Set owner, Input name, Set strength
            
        DragonHolder._dragons.Add(Dragon)
            //Add the Dragon to DragonHolder
        
        
    Stat()
        statpanel("Dragon")
        for(var/Dragon/D in DragonHolder)
            if(D.owner==ckey)
             //Display your Dragon's stats
                stat("Name:",D.name)
                stat("Strength:",D.strength)


As far as I can tell, it never gets past 'var/Dragon/Dragon = new()'. Am I doing this correctly?
Aug 10 2010, 10:37 am
In response to Dice1989
Dice1989 wrote:
> DragonHolder
>   var
>       list/_dragons 
>           //Holds all dragons
> ...
>       for(var/Dragon/D in DragonHolder)
>                    ...


The dragonholder datum doesn't have a contents list, being a datum, so it can't be looped through like that. Loop through DragonHolder._dragons instead.
Aug 10 2010, 10:48 am
In response to Skyspark
Thanks, I should have noticed that.

The initial problem still occurs though, after creating the Dragon, none of the variables are set and I am not prompted with an input.
Aug 10 2010, 10:56 am
In response to Dice1989
I tried testing out your code, with some debug messages sent to world added in.

The reason the input() box doesn't show up is because in mob/New(), the player's client hasn't yet attached to the mob.

mob/Login() might be a better place. Also, you might want to initialize the _dragons list with '= list()' so that it starts out as an empty list instead of as null.