Vice City: Multiplayer

Q: is it good to use onTimeChange instead of an infinite timer for some function such as savestatsall(a function that save the stats of all players)?

I made something through onTimeChange and it works. Let me show what i made.

function onScriptLoad()
{
InfiniteTimer <-0;
InfiniteTimer = time() + 14; // just example i wrote on mobile but exact code is in pc so
}

function onTimeChange(oldHour, oldMin, newHour, newMin)
{
if ( time() > InfiniteTimer && InfiniteTimer !=null)
{
print(" we passed 15 secs and it works ");
// there we can use our function but for example i am using print and it prints after every 15secs
// to avoid repeating we can set InfiniteTimer = null  here

// to repeat we can set more time
// InfiniteTimer = time()+14;
}
}
Now please answer my question :)

It would be same as running a timer every sec :P

Use timer and save your self a couple Squirrel function calls that aren't necessary. This is an incorrect use of this function.

Timers are not bad, and why would you need a timer to save stats in the first place? Just save them when a player leaves.

"Omg dude my server can crash what about that!"

Create stable scripts which cannot crash as simple as that. Losing 20 - 30 kills won't matter anyway if it crashes, vcmp nerds can obtain them again.

Sorry forgot something to add now updated

Please guys look it once more
@KAKAN @S.L.C

Quote from: Doom_Kill3R on Dec 26, 2015, 02:33 PMTimers are not bad, and why would you need a timer to save stats in the first place? Just save them when a player leaves.

"Omg dude my server can crash what about that!"

Create stable scripts which cannot crash as simple as that. Losing 20 - 30 kills won't matter anyway if it crashes, vcmp nerds can obtain them again.

I agree but what about some other stuff thus need an infinite timer or a timer with 20secs

Don't get me wrong this is just an idea

Small stuff which need infinite timers aren't that bad just never ever run queries in timers, for example running queries on a timer of less than 20 minutes will cause lags.

Alright i got you. Thanks for the replies :)