Lua Server save more often

[Powtreeman]

In tfs 1.0 how do I get it to save more often? I really hate the method of saving once a day.
If power goes out or something else happens the players are screwed.

 

[Ninja]

Save players individually (onAdvance) or global event?

 

[Powtreeman]

my global event is this

function onTime(interval)
broadcastMessage("Server is saving game in 5 minutes. Please logout.", MESSAGE_STATUS_WARNING)
Game.setGameState(GAME_STATE_STARTUP)
addEvent(firstServerSaveWarning, 120000)
return not shutdownAtServerSave
end

But I want it to save every 30 minutes or an hour or so

 

[Ninja]

Then you should use onThink (e.g interval="1800000") instead of onTime (e.g time="08:55:00")

 

[Powtreeman]

Nice ok. So is the interval in seconds or minutes or what?

 

[Powtreeman]

Actually I changed it to onThink but now the console is saying onTime is not found in the scripts

 

[Ninja]

It's in MILLIseconds, 30 minutes = 30 * 60 * 1000 = 1800000

You need to change time to interval in globalevents.xml

 

[Powtreeman]

what do i change this to in the xml?

<globalevent name="Server Save" time="09:55:00" script="serversave.lua"/>

 

[Ninja]

<globalevent name="Server Save" interval="1800000" script="serversave.lua"/>

 

[Powtreeman]

So I got it to save more often but it still kicks everyone at each save. Here is my full script.

local shutdownAtServerSave = false
local cleanMapAtServerSave = false

local function serverSave()
   if shutdownAtServerSave then
     Game.setGameState(GAME_STATE_SHUTDOWN)
   else
     Game.setGameState(GAME_STATE_CLOSED)

     if cleanMapAtServerSave then
       cleanMap()
     end

     Game.setGameState(GAME_STATE_NORMAL)
   end
end

local function secondServerSaveWarning()
   broadcastMessage("", MESSAGE_STATUS_WARNING)
   addEvent(serverSave, 60000)
end

local function firstServerSaveWarning()
   broadcastMessage("", MESSAGE_STATUS_WARNING)
   addEvent(secondServerSaveWarning, 120000)
end

function onThink(interval)
   broadcastMessage("", MESSAGE_STATUS_WARNING)
   Game.setGameState(GAME_STATE_STARTUP)
   addEvent(firstServerSaveWarning, 30)
   return not shutdownAtServerSave
end  [code/]

 

[Powtreeman]

anyone know?

 

[Ninja]

Replace Game.setGameState(GAME_STATE_CLOSED) with saveServer()

 

[tommy91]

Does this work with the latest Tfs?