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Apprentice Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 137

Hello, my tick timer is configured from my MUDs uptime.

EG..

The Two Towers has been up for 2d 4h 48m 50s.
Timer now at 720 secs.

Roughly speaking the game ticks every 15 minutes, on the 15,30,45 and 60 minute intervals. Once synced my tick timer then resets to 900 seconds at quarter of an hour.

So I can get a bit more use out of this function is there a way I can #CALL how many seconds are left until the next tick?

I know #T? shows me how many, but I can't really use this in a function, lets say an alias broadcasting how many seconds to the next tick.

Cheers,

Scarn

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 6:37 pm

Not that I am aware of, you just need to make a trigger on the output to capture the value when it is needed.

Apprentice Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 137

Yeah, that is what I've done... just means I'll have to use a #WAIT in a sequence to capture it, I don't like using that many #WAIT functions.

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 7:55 pm

Make use of a #WAITFOR to pull the info?

Apprentice Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 137

One step ahead of you! My only dislike of WAIT and WAITFOR is that if something else triggers during the wait, or the build up to the wait, they conflict... or rather make me so something I don't want to do.

Apprentice Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 137

I might just make an alarm instead of using the tick timer, I think you can #CALL time remaining on alarms...

Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 1:37 am

Easy enough to do a post test when you do have to wait, but an #ALARM works as well.

Sorcerer Joined: 15 Apr 2011 Posts: 809

%tick does this.

Predefined variables :)

Apprentice Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 137

Jesus how did I miss that. Haha, thanks!