What's better: per-player timers or a global timer?

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What's better: per-player timers or a global timer? - Aerotactics - 29.10.2015

What I mean is, Which is better?

Код:

public Timer()
{
for(new i=0; i<MAX_PLAYERS; i++)
{
SetPlayerHealth(i,100);
}
}

Код:

public Timer(playerid)
{
SetPlayerHealth(playerid,100);
}

Keep in mind both timers are doing the same thing, per se.

Re: What's better: per-player timers or a global timer? - Gammix - 29.10.2015

Per player timers.

Actually depends on what you want to do and in how much interval. Frequent ones should always be per player.

Re: What's better: per-player timers or a global timer? - DobbysGamertag - 29.10.2015

Depends entirely on what you need timers for. Instead of timers for setting health to 100, why don't you use

https://sampwiki.blast.hk/wiki/OnPlayerGiveDamage
https://sampwiki.blast.hk/wiki/OnPlayerTakeDamage
https://sampwiki.blast.hk/wiki/OnPlayerWeaponShot

Some things can be done without timers.

Re: What's better: per-player timers or a global timer? - Aerotactics - 29.10.2015

Quote:

Originally Posted by DobbysGamertag

Depends entirely on what you need timers for. Instead of timers for setting health to 100, why don't you use

https://sampwiki.blast.hk/wiki/OnPlayerGiveDamage
https://sampwiki.blast.hk/wiki/OnPlayerTakeDamage
https://sampwiki.blast.hk/wiki/OnPlayerWeaponShot

Some things can be done without timers.

Of course, I was just using it as an example.

To elaborate: If I want to do the same thing to all players, should I use a per player timer or a global timer, and why?