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Posted by

Metsuro USA (389 posts)

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Sun 04 Jun 2006 07:25 AM (UTC)

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I'm looking to make characters age based on the time they log in, the current time, then each game year it will set them 1 year older, any way to do this? Any suggestions? Any methods that would be best?

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David Haley USA (3,881 posts)

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Reply #1 on Sun 04 Jun 2006 10:35 AM (UTC)

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Do you mean:

- players log on at time T
- for every game year after T, increment age by 1

Or do you mean:

- players log on at time T
- every time a game year ticks, increment age by 1
(This is different from the first option; every ages at the same time)

Or do you mean:

- keep track of total log in time
- divide log in time by game year time to obtain age

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Metsuro USA (389 posts)

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Reply #2 on Mon 05 Jun 2006 12:59 AM (UTC)

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They create their character then are given a birthday, 18 years or so earlier from the current game time, then every game year that the birthday arrives they advance 1 year in age. so if they were born on the first of said month, the next year on the first of said month they age by 1 year.

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Posted by

Conner USA (381 posts)

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Reply #3 on Mon 05 Jun 2006 01:53 AM (UTC)

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You do know that unless you drastically change how game time ticks by, you're going to have some very ancient characters that way...

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Posted by

Metsuro USA (389 posts)

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Reply #4 on Mon 05 Jun 2006 02:08 AM (UTC)

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I'm using SmaugFUSS right now and I have players who login for 12-15 hours at a time, and they are already 100-200+ in age... because age is done by hours played. I just feel like this would be a slightly better way to do this, instead of aging over a 100 years, in less the a year via game time.

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David Haley USA (3,881 posts)

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Reply #5 on Mon 05 Jun 2006 02:23 AM (UTC)

Amended on Mon 05 Jun 2006 02:24 AM (UTC) by David Haley

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Sounds like what you really want is to leave age exactly as it is, except that you divide the ticks differently; instead of dividing by real-time hour, you divide by game-time year.

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Posted by Metsuro USA (389 posts) bio

Date Reply #6 on Mon 05 Jun 2006 02:27 AM (UTC)

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short get_age( CHAR_DATA * ch )
{
   return 17 + ( ch->played + ( current_time - ch->logon ) ) / 7200;
}

Here age is based on hours played, I dont want that, I want to make age based on in game "birthdays" then every time their birthday comes to be, they age 1 year.

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David Haley USA (3,881 posts)

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Reply #7 on Mon 05 Jun 2006 05:31 AM (UTC)

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If you really, really want it to be incremented every "birthday" then you are creating extra trouble for yourself. If your goal, in the end of the day, is to make people age only according to game years, then simply don't divide by 7200 (which is two real-time hours). Find out how many seconds a game year is, and divide by that. Make sure you also adjust save/load.

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Posted by Metsuro USA (389 posts) bio

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Reply #8 on Thu 08 Jun 2006 02:48 PM (UTC)

Amended on Thu 08 Jun 2006 03:03 PM (UTC) by Metsuro

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short get_age( CHAR_DATA * ch )
{
   int age;

   if( ch->pcdata->cdate[0] == 0 )
    ch->pcdata->cdate[0] = (time_info.year - 17 );
   if( ch->pcdata->cdate[1] == 0 )
    ch->pcdata->cdate[1] = time_info.month + 1;
   if( ch->pcdata->cdate[2] == 0 )
    ch->pcdata->cdate[2] = time_info.day + 1;

   age = (time_info.year - ch->pcdata->cdate[0]);
   if ((time_info.month - (ch->pcdata->cdate[1] - 1) ) >= 0 && (time_info.day - (ch->pcdata->cdate[2] - 1) ) >= 0)
    age += 1;
   return age;
}

this is what I came up with, you'll see that cdate[1] and cdate[2] have + 1 and - 1, I did this because month and day start at 0 not 1 and it would screw with my setting portion on the top, only way I could figure to do this. It seems to work for me now, but I havn't had much testing done with it yet... If I did something that seems really stupid or could be improved on, please say so, so I can make things work more... effiencetly?

Note: the orginal code made the player a year to old, so I lowered the 18 to 17 *shrug*

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David Haley USA (3,881 posts)

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Reply #9 on Thu 08 Jun 2006 08:34 PM (UTC)

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I don't think this will work because, if I'm not mistaken, time_info.year is reset to zero every time the game reboots, and is not a continuous value. So your players will only age during one game.

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Metsuro USA (389 posts)

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Reply #10 on Fri 09 Jun 2006 12:09 AM (UTC)

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time_info.year is currently set to 499. I thought that was the case too, but after hotbooting and rebooting a few times its remained 499. So I'm waiting a few more days, because there is 18 or so months a game year, so if it does I'll have to rework things but untill then it seems to be working decently.

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David Haley USA (3,881 posts)

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Reply #11 on Fri 09 Jun 2006 01:11 AM (UTC)

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It does indeed seem that the current game time is set at boot by calculating how much time has passed since a certain constant (which looks like it's about 1989 sometime). So looks like I misremembered that bit.

Instead of doing -17 for the creation date, it would be safer to set the creation date correctly, but then for the age, getting current year - creation year + base character age you want (in this case, that appears to be 17).

But, if you are storing this creation date with their pfiles, you should know that your characters will be aging even if they are offline...

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Metsuro USA (389 posts)

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Reply #12 on Fri 09 Jun 2006 01:30 AM (UTC)

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right thats how it should be, the game moves on, even if they arn't in the realms. But I store the creation dates as is. However I dont really see how it would be safer to store the dates as is, and have the age portion in the actual check, but I could be missing something? and the actual age is 18, because when they create its their birthday already, making them get +1 from the way I've done it.

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