[Proposal] Ot-cron

[scriptha]

Hi

I was thinking about a system which would allow you to execute scripts at specific times, like cronjobs in linux. You could clean old account once a week (luasql), you could make a raid that's executed every friday 13:00, or every hour, you could make an automatic clean, items respawning at a location, or npcs that are only there at specific locations to make quests more difficult.

I don't think this is really hard to make, and it would be a nice feature to switch to TFS for.. Any supporters?

 

[Jonern]

Yeah, I've thought about the same and I think this can be done already with Lua, I'm just not sure what's the best way to execute it.

 

[Vagabond]

you could just make an npc that occasionally checks whether or not it's time to do the work? like the old restarter npcs?

 

[Jonern]

I'm thinking of using onLogin and addEvent

 

[scriptha]

you could just make an npc that occasionally checks whether or not it's time to do the work? like the old restarter npcs?

Can you let an npc do something at 15:30?

 

[4220niller]

use os.date to find the time of the hoster computer and simply execute it if the hour is 15 and the minutes is 30.

You could either put it in the onThink or in a NPC