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Random timer and random give?

ZaibatsuTEAM
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18.10.15 03:12:10 pm

Probably a bad title, but anyway -
I want some help to make a timer that chooses times from 300,000 milliseconds to 3,600,000 millisecond. and whenever some random amount of time was chosen inbetween these values, you'll be given 5 to 500 "gems" (random amount inbetween that too)

My gems are called "yourgem" in the scripts.

Any help?

Re: Random timer and random give?

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18.10.15 03:19:27 pm

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function newGiveaway()
	local randomGiveawayTime = math.random(300000, 3600000)
	timer(randomGiveawayTime, "doGiveaway")
end
newGiveaway()	-- call the function as soon the server starts?

function doGiveaway()
	local playerList = player(0, "table")
	local targetPlayer = math.random(1, #playerList)
	
	newGiveaway()	-- launch next timer
	-- give muney here:
	msg2(targetPlayer, "You lucky dumbass!")
end

Should work.

Ty!

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19.10.15 03:13:46 pm

Thanks VADemon! Just what I needed

Edit: Uh, it actually does not start the function newGiveaway() on server start... I tried changing the values from (300000, 3600000)
to (3000, 5000) to see if it worked, but nothing - the message isn't shown. I did try and add addhook("second","newGiveaway") on top of everything.. but it started spamming the message

edited 1×, last 19.10.15 03:58:47 pm

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19.10.15 04:05:00 pm

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function newGiveaway()
     local randomGiveawayTime = math.random(3000, 3600)
     timer(randomGiveawayTime, "doGiveaway")
end
newGiveaway()     -- call the function as soon the server starts?

function doGiveaway()
     local playerList = player(0, "table")
     local targetPlayer = playerList[math.random(1, #playerList)] -- little fix here
     
     newGiveaway()     -- launch next timer
     -- give muney here:
     msg2(targetPlayer, "You lucky dumbass!")
end

uhhh

ZaibatsuTEAM
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19.10.15 04:11:19 pm

Still not starting on server start though so idk xd
That message should pop up inbetween 3000 to 3600 MS but it doesnt ;o

edit: it works on a new fresh cs2d server with no other scripts than just that... hmm

edited 1×, last 19.10.15 04:26:12 pm

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Gaios
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19.10.15 04:30:28 pm

ZaibatsuTEAM has written

it works on a new fresh cs2d server with no other scripts than just that... hmm

For me it should work even with other scripts. Don't have* anything that can damage another script.

edited 1×, last 19.10.15 04:52:50 pm

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ZaibatsuTEAM
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19.10.15 04:38:34 pm

But I have tons of scripts though... so yes it's possibly possible that some of my scripts damages this script. but it really makes no sense

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19.10.15 04:44:32 pm

Check if it has 'freetimer()' in any of those scripts

Check if there's no variable names that are the same

ty

ZaibatsuTEAM
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19.10.15 04:55:47 pm

ty rainoth, will check that

edit: nope i dont find any freetimers stuffs or anything with the same variables.... epic

Edit 2: It did work when i did the addhook("second","newGiveaway") but it started spamming the timer so more and more text started to spam the server. It's something with the startup thing that doesnt work.

Edit 3: LUA ERROR: sys/lua/autorun/1aawtf.lua:9: bad argument #2 to 'random' (interval is empty)

Edit 4: Trying with no scripts again. and now it doesnt work and gives me the error i provieded in edit 3.

edited 4×, last 19.10.15 06:04:59 pm

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19.10.15 06:13:50 pm

call newGiveaway() after msg2

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ZaibatsuTEAM
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19.10.15 07:06:45 pm

Still same error

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VADemon
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19.10.15 09:24:49 pm

In the autorun folder:

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function newGiveaway()
     local randomGiveawayTime = math.random(3000, 3600)
     timer(randomGiveawayTime, "doGiveaway")
end
newGiveaway()     -- call the function as soon the server starts?

function doGiveaway()
     local playerList = player(0, "table")
     local targetPlayer = playerList[math.random(1, #playerList)]
     
     newGiveaway()     -- launch next timer
     -- give muney here:
     msg(os.date("%H:%M:%S") .. " ".. player(targetPlayer, "name") .." (" .. targetPlayer ..") won the lottery!")
end

UPD: https://youtu.be/nZ6hNzqo5Ig

okay uh

ZaibatsuTEAM
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19.10.15 10:53:24 pm

So I just figured out that the script works only on listen server but doesn't work on dedicated... uhmm xd

because on dedicated it gives me the same error *still*

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20.10.15 12:05:48 am

Yea, the player list is empty when the server is empty, makes sense

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function newGiveaway()
     local randomGiveawayTime = math.random(3000, 3600)
     timer(randomGiveawayTime, "doGiveaway")
end
newGiveaway()     -- call the function as soon the server starts?

function doGiveaway()
	newGiveaway()     -- launch next timer
	
	local playerList = player(0, "table")
	
	if #playerList <= 2 then	-- less than N players/bots online?
		return -- do not raffle
	end
	
	local targetPlayer = playerList[math.random(1, #playerList)]
		
     -- give muney here:
     msg(os.date("%H:%M:%S") .. " ".. player(targetPlayer, "name") .." (" .. targetPlayer ..") won the lottery!")
end

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ZaibatsuTEAM
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20.10.15 12:10:45 am

Hahahaha damn it

makes a lot of sense but im too noob to understand

thanks once again