#Hardcore Timer

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lapis pike
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Ok let me rephrase it

little tendon
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yep^^

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explain again from the beginning pls

mild carbon
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not granted

lapis pike
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I have a server, I coded it so when a player dies they turn into spectator mode

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Now another player can either redeem their totem at the hub to respawn them or they respawn automatically after 24 hours

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I already did the totem part, I just need some help knowing how I can check and run something after 24 hours

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If the player is offline or online

little tendon
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to respawn them automatically after 24 hours, I'd just use a scheduled timer that runs every second and checks if any "ban" has expired

lapis pike
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Would that cause performance?

little tendon
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no

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it's no problem. you're simply comparing a few numbers every second

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you will not notice ANY performance problems

delicate prairie
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every few seconds or minute would be fine. You don;t need such accuracy

lapis pike
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But how would I have a timer for each player

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Because they don't all get the same timer

delicate prairie
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you only use one timer

mild carbon
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you should make sure to cache it instead of rereading the file every second

little tendon
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where Long is the timestamp when the ban expires

lapis pike
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Ok thank you all

little tendon
lapis pike
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So with a HashMap

little tendon
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load the file on startup and save it on shutdown

lapis pike
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So I also have to create a file for the players?

delicate prairie
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only 1

lapis pike
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Ye

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A json file?

delicate prairie
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stored player UUID and a Long for the time

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any file

lapis pike
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kk

delicate prairie
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Spigot has built in support for YAML and Json

lapis pike
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What is "YAML"?

delicate prairie
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YAML would be easier to implement as its in teh API, Json is shaded in Spigot but no API

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YAML is the language used for Spigots configs and plugin.yml files

lapis pike
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Ok so everytime a player dies, I add them to my file and cache from the file to check if their timer is up every minute or so

delicate prairie
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FileConfiguration

little tendon
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YAML is easier to use within spigot. I'd simply use a YamlConfiguration object

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of course JSON is fine too

lapis pike
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Then when I run the "respawn" event

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I get rid of the players UUID and Long

little tendon
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but if you never used neither of them, I'd start with YAML

lapis pike
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I know how to use JSON

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But I think I prefer YAML from what you guys are saying

delicate prairie
lapis pike
delicate prairie
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Is your respawn event somethign you manually trigger?

lapis pike
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I can do that

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I can trigger it when the timer is up

delicate prairie
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What I'm sayign is, after the 24 hours are up for a player, shoudl they automatically respawn, or are they stuck in spectator untill an event happens>?

lapis pike
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They should automatically respawn

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So I can run the respawn event in the part I check if their time is up

delicate prairie
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ok, so respawn happens when their timer expires, OR they are revived, or you run a respawn for everyone?

lapis pike
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No they respawn automatically

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I already have a respawn event

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Because of my totem system, when another player claims a players totem I make them respawn

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So I think in my checking if timer is up event

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I can run the respawn function right? @delicate prairie

delicate prairie
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yes

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if time has expired, remove them from the Map, save Map, respawn player

lapis pike
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Ok thank you

little tendon
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and pls remember: iterating over a small map (I assume that you do not have more than 10,000 players) and comparing some timestamps is really no problem at all performance-wise

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so no problem in doing it every second or every X seconds

lapis pike
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Ok thank you :))

little tendon
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np!

lapis pike
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I will check it every minute it doesn't need to be that accurate

little tendon
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