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KathAveara wrote:If all goes to plan, which /eval suggests it will, head down anytime in the nest 25 hours. Better sooner than later.

Drat, visited twice but missed the eclipse* - and missed your reply, because the forum logged me off without my realising, and I didn't spot there were unread messages I hate it what that happens!

Do remind us when the next one is due!

*edited to make clear what I was on about!

Rather, you need the waking timer to behave as though the timer had been running while asleep.

This is the right trick.

(Also correct that datetime.now is not a database property.)

Look at the http://seltani.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Fuel_Runs_Down code sample to see how I handled Goldspring. There's a timer that runs every ten minutes while the instance is awake. It also runs at on_wake time, and immediately computes the correct current value, so that the newly-arrived player sees the right state.

(Since the fuel generator in Goldspring drops one notch every 30 minutes, a check every ten minutes is plenty sufficient.)

I realize this sleep/wake architecture is a nuisance, but it ensures that the server load stays low.

I'll try to write up a simpler code sample for a day-night cycle. The Fuel_Runs_Down is slightly more complicated than that, because the start point of its "day" is the moment somebody presses the "fill" button.

That was a typo. I meant to say that it is *in* a property.

How does one actually use players.player(player)?

You might say, in one bit of code,

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prop = ObjectId(player)


And then in another:

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_player = players.player(prop)


_player would then refer to the player object you started with.

Is there a way to use it if you don't know the player's ObjectID?

No. All references to a player must originate from code (the player global, players.list(), etc) or from word-of-mouth (you type /playstate and copy down your objectid).

I don't want a way to look up players by email (email addresses should be private) or by name (I think eventually there will be a way to change your avatar name, so hard-coding references to names is a mistake).