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[runtest]

CWO, how did you get the total age of a player. I noticed you had a nice newbie system. Is this built in age, or did you set your own props?

[Austin]

There's a couple ways it can be done.

The first would be linear time using the characters .createdat member.
Using the difference between that and POLCore().systime you could determine the age.

Another way is to track accumulated online time when the person logs on and off. That would require a custom property.

[runtest]

I think he does the third option there. That should be easy enough. Thanks Austin.

[runtest]

Will this help me.

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use uo;

program textcmd_age( who )
	var utime := ReadGameClock() - GetObjProperty(who,"logontime");
	var dtime := GetObjProperty(who, "onlinetimer")+utime;

	if( !dtime )
		dtime := 0;
	endif

	SendSysMessage( who, "Total Online Age: " + dtime, color := 65 );
endprogram

CWO is going to kill me, I loved his newbie dungeon and I am trying to make my stone recognize player age.

[runtest]

Here is the code for my stone.

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use os;
use uo;

program item_ndstone( who )
   var utime := ReadGameClock() - GetObjProperty(who,"logontime");
   var dtime := GetObjProperty(who, "onlinetimer")+utime;

   if( !dtime )
      dtime := 0;
   endif 

	if(dtime <= 36000)
		who.frozen := 1;
		SendSysMessage( who, "You are granted permision to enter. Now wait.", color := 65 );
		Sleep( 15 );
		MoveCharacterToLocation( who, 5998, 1472, 0 );
		who.frozen := 0;
		//SendSysMessage( who, "It works!", color := 65 );
	else
		SendSysMessage( who, "You are to old to enter. Be gone!", color := 65 );
	endif

endprogram

[CWO]

Ya we use the "onlinetimer" prop and check it. Although on CG, we go by the age of all chars on the account plus age of deleted chars (onDelete counts up an account prop with the age of the char they deleted)

[runtest]

Not until after CG4. I remember making chars just to get monies. Oh, and thanks for that tip.

[CWO]

Remember I wasn't admin/dev until CG4...

[runtest]

Yeah it was passed down. Promise if you ever get tired of it, the code will be passed down again. I do not see this in the foreseeable future since you alone have completely rewritten the base.