I don't know if anyones done this sort of thing before, but its quite simple:





I haven't actually tested it, whichj is why its in theory.Blasted trigger thing won't work...

Funny, I thought of the exact same thing today, except instead I decided that it would use the actual countdown timer, simply pause the timer, then using death counts, add 1 second every 8 deaths.(with hypers)

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jun 17 2008, 4:50 am by Falkoner.

I've seen this in a puzzle map by, I think, urmom.

I tihnk i might have had a better version in my head the other day but i cant remember it now.

Heh I also used to do that a lot of time ago, but using the old Wait 1000 ms method instead

TRANSLATION:

Trigger("Player 1"){
Conditions:
Always();

Actions:
Pause Timer();
Preserve Trigger();
}

//-----------------------------------------------------------------//

Trigger("Player 1"){
Conditions:
Deaths("Player 1", "Cantina", Exactly, 8);

Actions:
Set Countdown Timer(Add, 1);
Set Deaths("Player 1", "Cantina", Set To, 0);
Preserve Trigger();
}

//-----------------------------------------------------------------//

Trigger("Player 1"){
Conditions:
Always();

Actions:
Set Deaths("Player 1", "Cantina", Add, 1);
Preserve Trigger();
}

//-----------------------------------------------------------------//

(Don't forget to use these triggers in conjunction with Hyper Triggers)


So old school. I remember seeing maps, that were created along time ago, with the 1000 ms to 100 ms and even 1 ms hyper triggers. Makes us all stop and thing of how much we have grown.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jun 29 2008, 2:25 am by Brontobyte. Reason: Forgot something. :D

Yeah, I thought about that at first, and then I realized that since waits run separate from the game speed, the timer would always run the same speed, no matter what gamespeed, which I guess is what you might want in some cases, not in mine though, so death counts worked the best since their speed increases and decreases with the game speed.

I know I used it in my Minesweeper map, not sure about my puzzle one though. Sad that I can't even remember my own maps...

Anyways, I've never seen this done through the leaderboard.

I'm not even sure if it was made by you, I'd have to remember the map name and look. Your name just stands out brightly in my memory.

Edit: Found it. I guess it doesn't have one. I remember something like it having a timer...

What's that famous map? I want it!

The leaderboard in both SP and MP updates every second (every 12 trigger cycles for fastest, every 3 for slowest), so you wouldn't be able to do anything faster than that. You could go slower, though it would probably have to be in multiples of 1 second, because the leaderboard refreshes all at once once per second, and not as the scores change.

It's also impossible to refresh the leaderboard by redisplaying it every trigger cycle. It will only refresh at the same once per second. It must be tied to whatever's driving the "elapsed game seconds" timer and the waits.

I'm assuming that a millisecond timer is begun with every game, and waits/elapsed time are calculated against that timer. Or maybe it works off the system time? Anyone know?

The one by urmom or Puzzling?

im pretty sure from rming puzzling so much and losing that i can remember clearly that id did not have any countdown or up. im not even sure if it had a leader board.

This idea has been done and implemented. I created a clock system in which the countdown timer acted as a clock, counting up through the minutes.

Was that the one where if you stepped onto a beacon is would say the time in some creepy voice?

A better way is to just have 20 triggers all with "wait 100 ms" and "preserve trigger". That way you get fast triggers at a predictable rate (10 per second).