[OciXCrom]

Let's say that I have a plugin that saves the player's played time. I need to make it so on every X minutes the player will get a certain bonus. For example, the player will get a bonus on 500, 1000, 1500, 2000, 2500 and so on minutes, or 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000. What is the best way of checking this? For now I have only come up with setting a repeat task on 1 minute and check the player's time for each player separately and for each "time-circle" (1000, 2000, 3000...). Is there a more efficient way to do this?

[Depresie]

probably by adding a command so the player can check his time, then another one with which he can use those hours to recieve his bonus

Or set a global task every 5-10 minutes, if player has more than the minutes needed, he should recieve his bonus

[siriusmd99]

On client connect ?
Or you want exactly when he achieves x minutes?

[wickedd]

Are you saving players time with NVault or MYSQL?

[Bugsy]

I would use a thinking entity set to think every X seconds..depending on how accurate you want to acknowledge the time.

If you are checking at an even increment of the interval, you can use modulus.

PHP Code:

if ( PlayedSeconds  && !( PlayedSeconds % TheIntervalSeconds ) )
{
      //do whatever
} 


Here's a little demo to do something every 5 whatever.

PHP Code:

new iSeconds;
const iInterval = 5;
    
for ( iSeconds = 0 ; iSeconds <= 25 ; iSeconds++ )
{
    server_print( "%d % %d = %d %s" , iSeconds , iInterval , iSeconds % iInterval , iSeconds && !( iSeconds % iInterval ) ? "DO SOMETHING" : "" );
} 


Output

0  5 = 0 
1  5 = 1 
2  5 = 2 
3  5 = 3 
4  5 = 4 
5  5 = 0 DO SOMETHING
6  5 = 1 
7  5 = 2 
8  5 = 3 
9  5 = 4 
10  5 = 0 DO SOMETHING
11  5 = 1 
12  5 = 2 
13  5 = 3 
14  5 = 4 
15  5 = 0 DO SOMETHING
16  5 = 1 
17  5 = 2 
18  5 = 3 
19  5 = 4 
20  5 = 0 DO SOMETHING
21  5 = 1 
22  5 = 2 
23  5 = 3 
24  5 = 4 
25  5 = 0 DO SOMETHING

Thinking entity example:

PHP Code:

#include <amxmodx>
#include <engine>

const Float:EntityInterval = 1.0;

new g_Entity;

public plugin_init() 
{
    g_Entity = create_entity( "info_target" );
    entity_set_string( g_Entity , EV_SZ_classname , "BonusChecker" );
    register_think( "BonusChecker" , "EntityThink" );
    
    //Use this when you want to start it.
    entity_set_float( g_Entity , EV_FL_nextthink , ( get_gametime() + EntityInterval ) );
}

public EntityThink( iEntity )
{
    if( iEntity == g_Entity ) 
    {
        //Do stuff here.

        //Use this to make it repeat.
        entity_set_float( g_Entity , EV_FL_nextthink , ( get_gametime() + EntityInterval ) );
    }
} 


[OciXCrom]

Thank you for all the answers. I'll probably use an entity and set it on 60 seconds.

[xSav]

Originally Posted by Bugsy Thinking entity example: PHP Code: #include <amxmodx> #include <engine> ...         entity_set_float( g_Entity , EV_FL_nextthink , ( get_gametime() + EntityInterval ) );     } }

Will code work if I change the map?