How So? I "Need" someone to help, which means it should be under the Classified Ads, besides, everywhere else I go I get flamed -_-

Green Lime wrote:

I don't see how you can't just read the savefiles section of the guide and not know how to use savefiles. Back when I first started DM. I had to learn all of the DM from just the reference. Cause back then there was no other source of information.

So did I, but I never really understood the stuff with saving, hence the reason I need help...ANYWAY

I need something like this...

An Obj Saver that does the following:

Saves ONLY Objs that have been modified (Ex. This is a Space game, so If I colonize a planet, I want it to save the planet changed, but if I never colonized the planet, don't save because planets are default added to the map file)

Loads all SAVED Planets, and deletes all the planets that have a saved planet over them. (Ex. I Own Planet 1 and 2, but not Planet 3. When the world loads up, I want the ORIGINAL Planet 1 and 2, from the Map File, to be deleted and replaced by the saved Planet 1 and 2, but Planet 3 to be left alone, so that nothing happens to it.)

obj/planet
    var
        update = 0  // This variable will hold are updates the player has made
        owner // He owns the planet
        _x
        _y

world/Del()
    for(var/obj/planet/P) // defaults to whole world
        if(P.owner) // if there is an owner save it to file
            var/savefile/F = new("planets.sav")
            F << P // We save the P object to a savefile

obj/planet/proc/Write(savefile/F)
    _x = x
    _y = y
    _z = z
    return ..()

world/New()
    var/safefile/F = new("planets.sav")
    while(!F.eof) // Not end of file
        var/obj/planet/P = new()
        F >> P
        if(var/obj/planet/oldP in P.loc) // Find old planet
            del(oldP) // Delete it

obj/planet/proc/Read(savefile/F)
    x = _x
    y = _y
    z = _z
    return ..()

No Duplicates (Ex. Several Times, I have gotten 1 and 2 to work, but then I get like 2 - 10 of the Non-Colonized version of that planet, over/under it. Not only does it screw up the stuff with the planets, but it also will very easily reach the obj limit.)

Saves certain special planets. (Ex. There are "Markets" where while you do not colonize them, you can sell parts and resources to them, and other people can buy those parts that you sold. I don't want every planet saved, if its unnessicary, BUT I do want these planets to be saved specially because of their special function.)

I've never been able to do ALL of that in one obj saver, and it's getting on my nerves. and so I need help.

Okay, I changed a couple things because I have 2 Different types for Markets and for Planets (obj/Markets and obj/Planets) So, I'll repost it here because it's not working. If i changed anything vital accidentally, tell me.

> obj/Planets/Write(savefile/F)
>   saved_x = x
>   saved_y = y
>   saved_z = z
>   return ..()
>   
> obj/Planets/Read(savefile/F)
>     x = saved_x
>     y = saved_y
>     z = saved_z
>     return ..()
> 
> obj/Markets/Write(savefile/F)
>   saved_x = x
>   saved_y = y
>   saved_z = z
>   return ..()
>   
> obj/Markets/Read(savefile/F)
>     x = saved_x
>     y = saved_y
>     z = saved_z
>     return ..()
> 
> 
> world
>   New()
>       ..()
>       var/savefile/F = new("planets.sav")
>       while(!F.eof) // Not end of file
>           var/obj/P = new()
>           F >> P
>           var/obj/oldP
>           for(oldP in world)
>               if(oldP in P.loc) // Find old planet
>                   del(oldP) // Delete it
> 
>   Del()
>       for(var/obj/P) // defaults to whole world
>           if(P.owner) // if there is an owner save it to file
>               var/savefile/F = new("planets.sav")
>               F << P // We save the P object to a savefile

That should be all of it, Please tell me what is wrong.

Okay, I added a new thing for the Normal Planets, it saves, loads, but I get Duplicates. I thought this line:

if(locate(P) in locate(O.saved_x,O.saved_y,O.saved_z)) del(P)

was there to prevent that, but it's not working. Other than that, I don't see any major problems yet, I'll check around and repost if I find any.

EDIT: On Markets, it does the same thing, I have 2 of the same Market when I tried to sell something to it and reloaded the game. And I'm not sure if it's saving the changes or not, I'd have to wait till it stops making dups to find out for sure.

EDIT 2: Okay, I verified that it is saving everything inside Markets (By going by variables that are changed when saving) Though, I still have the problem with dups and I'm trying to fix that. I'll reply here if I figure out the problem on my own.

if(var/obj/oldP in O.loc) // oldP then will equal any planet on the turf of O.
// But NO! O is an object in array not on the map. So before the statement above.
// Lets move it to its orignal location.
O.Move(locate(O.saved_x,O.saved_y,O.saved_z))
// Now do the if statement from aove.
// Inside the if just do an del(oldP)