On the game I entered last night, AB's Aliens Amoung Us, the gamestats showed this:

# of Active Corps are 0
Users? 200 of which 1 are active
Ships? 1000 of which 1 are active

At the time of it's capture there were 2 corps and about 10 players. So it seems that the gamestats are updated at tern but what about the other info screens? I would like to know the update times for:
1. Daily News screen
2. High Score screen

Both the daily news and the high score displays are updated as they happen, sometimes during very high processor useage, and a few secs b4 extern it may take a few seconds for these displays to update but that is an extreme.

also the v screen display updates hourly.

The V screen display updates when checked but no more than once per hour. So if someone checks it at 3:15, it will show the same stats until at least 4:15. So if someone else presses V at 4:00, it will show the same info that was shown at 3:15. However, when 4:15 hits, it won't update automatically, it then waits for the next person to hit V. So if the first person to hit it after 4:15 doesn't hit it until 4:45, it will update at that point, give the data for that moment in time, and set the timer for 1 more hour, until 5:45.

What if you keep pressing "v" in a loop? I've made a script that uses the time off of it as a game timer. Will it ever update if you keep pressing the "v" once a second or less?

Harley already answered that question... Once per hour.

quote:Originally posted by Akor

What if you keep pressing "v" in a loop? I've made a script that uses the time off of it as a game timer. Will it ever update if you keep pressing the "v" once a second or less?


Why not use CT to get the time unless you are using more info from the V screen?

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quote:Originally posted by Promethius

quote:Originally posted by Akor

What if you keep pressing "v" in a loop? I've made a script that uses the time off of it as a game timer. Will it ever update if you keep pressing the "v" once a second or less?


Why not use CT to get the time unless you are using more info from the V screen?
Hard to find a trigger that is applicable at all times. The year is the only variable that I can use. I made the script to find the year from the "v" screen to be the message to trigger on when I then go to to loop on the computer time.

Trigger on AM and PM?

One of the first things I tried. It can't tell if it is "AM" or "PM" so if I try to run it at the wrong time of day, it just hangs.

Do both. Something like:

send "ctq"
waitOn "(?=Help)? T"
killtrigger am_trig
killtrigger pm_trig
setTextLineTrigger am_trig :parse_time " AM"
setTextLineTrigger pm_trig :parse_time " PM"
pause

:parse_time
killtrigger am_trig
killtrigger pm_trig
setVar $line CURRENTLINE
stripText $line ","
replaceText $line ":" " "
# Do more stuff with $line here. Returning so far:
# 05 55 34 AM Tue Jan 09 2018
# So it's now rather easy to parse stuff w/ getword.
# hh mm ss AM/PM Gameday mm dd yy