Timer problem

[icecreamassassin]

So I'm trying to create a day timer that will trigger a quest stage after 30 days. So far this is what I have, and it all appears to function properly from a script error stance, but it doesn't seem to trigger after the desired number of days pass. Basically you get a loan from a banker, it sets a script variable at the same value as the current gameday and then has another variable which is the same value +30 (indicating the 30 days later) and when the gameday timer is equal or more than this second timer, it triggers the next stage of a quest.

 

Scriptname CRbankloanscript

short repayday
short loanstart

Begin GameMode

if CRbankloanamount > 1 ; this passes as true when the loan is opened and the global variable is set to the loan amount
if loanstart == 0 ; passes if this section hasn't run yet
	set loanstart to gameday ; sets the variable to the current gameday value (hence making the previous step fail in the future)
	set repayday to loanstart +30 ; variable is set as the current gameday value +30 (the day that the loan must be repaid by)
endif
endif

if loanstart > 0 ;passes if the above section executes
if gameday >= repayday ;when the game's built in gameday timer meets or exceeds the variable set in the last block
	setstage CRbankaccount 20 ;sets the stage of the quest which puts the global variable at -1 and sets a bounty for the loan amount
endif
endif

if CRbankloanamount == 0 ;if the loan is repaid properly or no loan has ever been opened the two variables for the above blocks will remain at 0
set loanstart to 0
set repayday to 0
endif


end

 

So any insight? what am I missing here?

[MShoap13]

Did you try waiting 31 days?

 

Also, did you include a global reference to "gameday" in your plugin?

Edited July 25, 2011 by MShoap13

[fg109]

Use GameDaysPassed instead of GameDay. GameDay loops, it goes up to 30 (or however many days there are in that particular month) then goes back to 1 for the next month. Unless you're lucky enough to start the loan at the first of a month, and there is a month somewhere with 31 days, the quest stage would never update.

[icecreamassassin]

Use GameDaysPassed instead of GameDay. GameDay loops, it goes up to 30 (or however many days there are in that particular month) then goes back to 1 for the next month. Unless you're lucky enough to start the loan at the first of a month, and there is a month somewhere with 31 days, the quest stage would never update.

 

OH yeah that's what I intended on doing, was using gamedaypassed! duurrrr, thanks I'll give that a try.