[5165] Making events question

[dragon89928]

Hey guys. I was just thinking, if I make my own events would it be better to make a new thread for the event or just stick stuff into character.cs? Because I've been thinking, if I stick it into character.cs and there are x people online, wouldn't that just lag the whole server? Or it wouldn't matter that much? Just looking for some feedback.

Currently I have most of my events in character.cs which I think is causing some lag. I just cant pinpoint whether its my client or the server.

[pro4never]

If you are doing anything time related (other than starting/stopping) I'd do a thread just for that event.

If you are using a client and use any sort of thread.sleep it will cause the server to essentially stop for that amount of time. I had that with my olldd dueling count down. out of lazyness I didn't do a new thread and just used thread.sleep and it of course would cause that client to not be able to do anything during that time.

For starting/stopping events I'd do an event thread type system checking datetimes and such, looping every lets say 25 ms or so. Most sources already have something similar (they usually have like a character tools thread that runs through clients doing checks on them and then a similar thing for guards/mobs/server systems)

If you have something like that specifically for events then you can mess around with it without worrying about messing up clients through the server or other game systems if you are using thread.sleep or other checks that (if running on all connected clients) could cause alot of unneeded cpu usage.

That being said I'm not very good with threading and I'm sure others around here can offer much better advice than me.

[dragon89928]

Yeah. I was thinking exactly the same thing. Since if it checks # of players amount of times every so often it would cause unnecessary usage. Thanks a lot! Now I need to go recode my events >.>

[MonstersAbroad]

When I used Newestcoserver

I would make a new .cs but define stuff in character.cs and world.cs and in the .cs I just delegated a new thread to it...I had no problems to be honest I atually had less lag then when I didnt use a new.cs for events.

[dragon89928]

Yeah.. I made two quests, one using character.cs and one using threads. It seems as though the thread lagged quite a bit at 500ms sleep. It was about 150-200 ping for character.cs and 300 for the thread, normally 80. (I'm comparing the events using the ping for lack of a better way to measure responsiveness). Then again the computer I'm running the server on is pretty crappy, might be the computer that's causing the lag.