Time delayed events never fire?

I've got a problem with those time delayed rewards, like getting to shop from the woodcutter and receiving the Thrommel award. I've passed literally 1000s of days but these events just don't trigger. Any ideas on that?

BTW, I noticed that the relevant script function has a double: add_timevent and add_timeevent. Is there any difference between those? And what unit is the time delay in?

 

Resting can be hit or miss on causing time events to be advanced as well. I have had several games where the woodcutters reward has never shown up as well.

I'm not sure if the two commands are the same, but they appear to be. I have only used one of them in my own code. The unit of time in them is milliseconds (1/1000th of a second).

 

The best way that I've found to advance time for Thrommel's rewards (and others) is to simply keep walking between Homlet and Nulb repeatedly.

 

Shop from the woodcutter?

Never heard of that one. Heh, guess I should go back and talk to him every once in a while after turning in the lowbie "kill spiders" quest.

 

fyi - Just in case you did not know this, you have to complete the quest to cure Lil' Amii, first.

 

Apologies for the threadomancy. I've been looking into this issue lately, since I wanted to script a timed revenge encounter for CE parties, and this thread seemed the most relevant.

What I've gathered from my investigation into it is that the timed events fire if and only if
(1) The specified amount of time has passed
(2) You've returned to the map where the timevent_add script originated (even if the original "attachee" is gone, dead or destroyed)

I suspect that if you didn't get the woodcutter shop order or the answer from his relative, it's because you talked to him about it inside his house, and then when you tried talking to him again, after passing some time, it was outside - so the timed event didn't go off, despite passing the requisite amount of time. Likewise with Thrommel, my guess is that you dropped him off somewhere you never returned to, and thus the give_reward script never fired.

Of course, another possibility is that the game simply forgets about the time event after some time or something to that effect - I certainly hope that is not the case. It's a lot more difficult to test this as well.

Anyway, I've run a few tests with Thrommel, the woodcutter and the CE revenge script I've put together, and they seemed to work fine once the above two conditions were met. It also seems that the time doesn't have to be passed in the same map as the timevent_add script, BTW (also tested this).

As for timevent vs. timeevent, I've seen timeevent_add used in the dimension door script, where it was remarked that the script runs in real time. Perhaps timevent only counts ingame time? (i.e. it wouldn't fire because time is frozen in turn based mode) Needs some testing I guess.

 

I never talk to the woodcutter in his house, and I have only had him hear back from his relative once. I have received Thrommel's reward before ever setting foot back on the map he left my party on.

It really does seem to be a case of time events with long delays being forgotten. I am working on a work around for it.

As for timeevent vs timevet, in game time does pass in turn based mode. The only time it doesn't is during dialog.

 

Has anything changed with delayed deliveries?
I have never received anything from that laying prince. Recently I have given 150,000 GP to woodcutter who promised to sell me amulet. It was over a week ago. I am a Lawfull character and I feel it is getting the highest time to punish him for this fraud.

 

They do fire. Try spending a week or two travelling on the world map before returning to the woodcutter. That usually does the trick.

 

The trick is you need to wait the week and change the map before you can receive the stuff.

 

True. Isn't there also something about the worldmap which makes time change slightly differently for these delayed events though maggit? Seem to recall Blue mentioning something about it in IRC but my memory could be wrong and it was a long time ago, before he'd finished investigating this fully.

 

Mmm... Sorry but I have no idea how they work with the worldmap Zeb.

 

No worries Maggit - I'm up the foothills of my ignorance and only going on half-recollected IRC conversations with Ruf and Blue. :writersbl