[TheMasterNico]

Hello all.

I try made a conquer script. But i have question. What is the best way to conquer a zone?

First: Use a SetTimer like ZoneUpdate and make a loop for all zones and check the time of players inside in zone and conquer area.

PHP код:

public ZoneUpdate()
{
Loop all zones
Check if zone have player inside
Check if Player inside
Check if player is in mode 'conquer zone'
Check the time of player inside with a var++
Check if time inside is the neccessary
conquer the zone
} 


Second: Use OnPlayerUpdate for playerid and check if player is still in zone when time inside

PHP код:

public OnPlayerUpdate(playerid)
{
Check if player is in mode 'conquer zone'
Check if player is insde a zone with a variable
Check the time with gettime of player inside
Check if time inside is the neccessary
Conquer the zone
} 


What is the best way and why the other no?
What are the pros and cons of both in this case?

[Vince]

How is this "conquer mode" triggered? Is it activated upon entering the zone? It seems silly to run continues timer when the actual action only starts when a player is in "conquer mode". In any case I recommend using the Streamer plugin's dynamic areas. Those callbacks make it very easy to track when someone enters and leaves a zone. Perhaps there's also a function to count the number of players in a zone, but I'm not sure about that.

[Awide]

If you refrain from using Streamer make a timer that's clicking every second for the first method, because that's way better for your hardware than using OnPlayerUpdate.

[TheMasterNico]

Yes. For the zones i use streamer's area for controlling the in the area players and use OnPlayerEnterArea for the 'conquer mode' like PlayerInArea[playerid] = areaid and PlayerInConquer[playerid] = true

Then, is best for hardware and speed use one timer instead OnPlayerUpdate

[darkdrago]

I would use a global timer with a foreach loop, but it's just my opinion