If You Can Do This You Are A Master [Request]

O.K let's say we're makin' a village building game. You use your villagers to build houses , farms , wells etc. But all of them has a building time . For example house takes 5 hours to be complete. I guess you think ,”Are you nuts ?! Nobody would wait that long !” now. Well here is my question : Can’t the villagers keep workin’ while we’re away , too ? After we switched off our computer and go to bed , can’t they keep working ?

I’ve thougth about it a little. There is lots of games using such systems like Virtual Villagers Series , Harvest Moon Series etc. I think I found a way to make it but I can’t do that because I don’t know scripting. And I know there are awesome scripters here. Maybe they cen do that.

Here is my plan to do that:
The game will save the last shutting down time and when opened again it will compare the last shutting down time and the current opening time and will set up the progress according to it. So when you open the game 5 hours later , you will find a completed house. What do you think about it? It’s really challenging right ? That’s way I say “ If you can do this you are a master!”

Well , if someone really manage to do that. It will start a new phase for Rpg Maker. Thanks for reading. Please leave a comment even if you can’t help.

This is actually simpler than you think. I made one so that if time progressed by one hour (according to your computer clock, so it could be glitched by simply changing the computer clock time), it showed some text.

Just do this:

Code: [Select]

Script: $game_variables[xxxx] = Time.now.hour
        $game_variables[yyyy] = Time.now.minutes
Control Variables: [zzzz] = [xxxx]
Control Variables: [aaaa] = [yyyy]
Conditional Branch: [xxxx] = 24
  Control Variables: [zzzz] = 1
else
  Control Variables: [zzzz] += 1
end
Control Switches: [bbbb] = ON


Then make a parallel process common event that turns on when switch [bbbb] is on, and write in this:

Code: [Select]

Script: $game_variables[xxxx] = Time.now.hour
        $game_variables[yyyy] = Time.now.minutes
Conditional Branch: [xxxx] = [zzzz]
  Conditional Branch: [yyyy] = [aaaa]
    Text: Finished.
    Control Switches: [bbbb] = OFF
  else
    Wait: 5 frames
    Branch End
else
  Wait: 5 frames
  Branch End


Admittedly, it'd be harder to do things like 5 hours, or 28 hours, but it all follows the same process.

like the Virtual villagers game?

This is actually simpler than you think. I made one so that if time progressed by one hour (according to your computer clock, so it could be glitched by simply changing the computer clock time), it showed some text.

Just do this:

Code: [Select]

Script: $game_variables[xxxx] = Time.now.hour
        $game_variables[yyyy] = Time.now.minutes
Control Variables: [zzzz] = [xxxx]
Control Variables: [aaaa] = [yyyy]
Conditional Branch: [xxxx] = 24
  Control Variables: [zzzz] = 1
else
  Control Variables: [zzzz] += 1
end
Control Switches: [bbbb] = ON


Then make a parallel process common event that turns on when switch [bbbb] is on, and write in this:

Code: [Select]

Script: $game_variables[xxxx] = Time.now.hour
        $game_variables[yyyy] = Time.now.minutes
Conditional Branch: [xxxx] = [zzzz]
  Conditional Branch: [yyyy] = [aaaa]
    Text: Finished.
    Control Switches: [bbbb] = OFF
  else
    Wait: 5 frames
    Branch End
else
  Wait: 5 frames
  Branch End


Admittedly, it'd be harder to do things like 5 hours, or 28 hours, but it all follows the same process.

Wow ! Super ! =) Thanks thanks thanks thanks a lot ! =)