crons and missions and crons

Vast Deathmaster

before I do a REAL search and maybe find what I'm looking for, I thought I would give you this:

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crons, crons, everywhere there's crons,
blocking out the missions, breaking my mind
don't do this, don't do that, can't you read the crons?
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I want to get paid for a mission 3 days after it ends.
I thought I had it right....have a cron test for a bit,
have a duration of 3 and everything else zeroes.
It would run off 3 days and on the end it would set a bit

The payment mission would be testing for that bit and I would
get paid.

Sadly, it isn't working out that way.
I have the Day/Month/Year stuff at zeroes, because I don't have
a specific time period to work with.

I'd rather avoid the Contribute and Require fields if at all possible.

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Ivanova: "I can only conclude that I am paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate."

mrxak

The crön should (instead of setting a bit), start a mission that auto-aborts and pays you.

Bomb

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Originally posted by Vast Deathmaster:
**crons, crons, everywhere there's crons,
blocking out the missions, breaking my mind
don't do this, don't do that, can't you read the crons?

**

Crons crons everywhere
using them makes me lose my hair
I missed a ! here and a / there

I think my egos about to take a hit
I can't figure out what to do with this control bit
and to top it off, my scenario's a piece of ****.

_bomb

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"I want to tell you about a time I almost died...."

Vast Deathmaster

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Originally posted by mrxak:
**The crön should (instead of setting a bit), start a mission that auto-aborts and pays you.

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(snip)
(snip) Ah confusion, I am so good at it

I can make the mission --> cron --> mission work fine
How do I reset a started mission in the BBS( it has already accepted the bit even if I not it later) I could just run the mission and abort it, but I am still testing things and I'd like to reset all the missions at once.
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Ivanova: "I can only conclude that I am paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate."

(This message has been edited by Vast Deathmaster (edited 04-03-2003).)

mrxak

Wha?

You want to abort all of your missions?

Vast Deathmaster

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Originally posted by mrxak:
**Wha?

You want to abort all of your missions?

**

I've been working on a plugin. It has like 4 or 5 missions in it including crons and such. Instead of starting a new pilot every time, I have a mission that nots all the bits !b1 !b2 etc. involved with this plugin.

I can then start over and retest the plugin from scratch.

But for some reason a particular mission (set off by a cron event) won't go away when I not/negate its bit or the bit that the cron sets.

When I run and abort the mission, it comes up again in the BBS.

I may have to just create a pilot everytime I want to test, but that is bothersome

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Ivanova: "I can only conclude that I am paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate."

mrxak

Okay, I get it now. Sorry about that. Is the crön still active when you not the bit? What is the duration for the crön?

Maybe you could take the plug out, and put in another plug that lets you revert everything you want.

Vast Deathmaster

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Originally posted by mrxak:
**Okay, I get it now. Sorry about that. Is the crön still active when you not the bit? What is the duration for the crön?

Maybe you could take the plug out, and put in another plug that lets you revert everything you want.

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I have a Pre Holdoff of 3 and a Duration of 1. Presumably that means that when the Enable tests true, then the cron waits 3 days and then lasts 1 day.

When I not the bits for the cron, the cron is not active (in the pilot log)

The mission disapears from the BBS once it is completed. So I may have to just "bite the bullet", and completed the mission before starting over.

I suppose I could take the plug out and put it back in (so to speak)
But I have to exit the game move the plug, enter the game again etc, etc. every time I want to test. That's a pain so I was hoping to just have this other mission that negates everything when I run it.

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Ivanova: "I can only conclude that I am paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate."

mrxak

Hmm. That's a tough one alright.

Vast Deathmaster

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Originally posted by mrxak:
**Hmm. That's a tough one alright.

**

I would have thought it was something easy to do.

Sort of like a TC where you meet a Supreme being who says " You are not worthy!! Go BACK!! "

And you are sent back to the beginning of the game.

Effectively the same thing as what I want as a test reset.

Oh well.

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Ivanova: "I can only conclude that I am paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate."

General Cade Smart

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Originally posted by Bomb:
**Crons crons everywhere
using them makes me lose my hair
I missed a ! here and a / there

I think my egos about to take a hit
I can't figure out what to do with this control bit
and to top it off, my scenario's a piece of ****.

_bomb

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Bomb, you sing! Very amusing. My egos to about to take a hit... and very humorous too. Hahaha.

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I am eager to try to ansver mission questions

Bomb

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Originally posted by General Cade Smart:
**Bomb, you sing! Very amusing. My egos to about to take a hit... and very humorous too. Hahaha.

**

Not so much a song as a poem written out of agony.

_bomb

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I think that you don't see many love stories in EV simply because the engine isn't quite geared towards that. What are you going to do, keep meeting your significant other in a bar (or, with Nova, the Outfitter, Shipyard, or Trade Center) and have questions like "Will you go out on a date with me?" | Yes/No | "Great, pick me up on <DST> in a month and we'll have dinner."?
-EVula

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