Repop Loop

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Dec 9 2008, 12:40 pm
I was wondering how to write a repop that happend every 10 minutes. (6000 ticks)

I know I would either use while, do while, or for, but I'm not to familiar with them. (And the DM Guide is too confusing)

Please help, thanks!
Dec 9 2008, 12:46 pm
Here is what I would do. Not saying its correct, but it works. I don't use repop though.

world/New()
 spawn Repop_Loop()
 ..()
proc/Repop_Loop()
 while(1)
  sleep(6000)
  world.Repop()
Dec 9 2008, 12:48 pm
In response to Dragonn
Thanks!
Dec 10 2008, 12:14 am
Hi1 wrote:
And the DM Guide is too confusing

Just out of curiosity, could you be a bit more specific on the matter, in case there are attempts to improve the guide, it might be helpful to know what to focus on.
Dec 10 2008, 10:30 am
In response to Dragonn
Dragonn wrote:
Here is what I would do. Not saying its correct, but it works. I don't use repop though.

> world/New()
>  spawn Repop_Loop()
>  ..()
> proc/Repop_Loop()
>  while(1)
>   sleep(6000)
>   world.Repop()
>


That will not work. After the sleep proc runs out, it will spam the Repop. This works better:

world/New()
Repop_Loop()

proc/Repop_Loop()
world.Repop()
spawn(6000) Repop_Loop()


You may need to add 'Set background = 1' at the beginning of the main proc to help with lag/errors.
Dec 10 2008, 10:36 am
In response to Developous
Developous wrote:
That will not work. After the sleep proc runs out, it will spam the Repop.

Huh? No it won't.

This works better:

IMHO, an actual looping construct works better.

You may need to add 'Set background = 1' at the beginning of the main proc to help with lag/errors.

That should have no effect whatsoever with your implementation, because it doesn't have a proper loop at all, as far as the language is concerned; and all setting a proc to background does is cause it to (arbitrarily) sleep between loop iterations.