Automated message

[Qu@rks]

Alright what I wanna do is this: I am running a server which also has an automated welcome message. Now the question: Is there a way to have the server give out a message every let's say 10 minutes? Would be an awesome way of reminding people of different things, e.g. fairplay, set company password etc.

[dihedral]

there are 2 ways i can think of

one would be if you patch the source to run a script file every year (1. jan)

the other would require you to be using a *nix system where you have the ability to send kill signals, run the dedicated server using a modified version of autopilot, which will run custom tcl commands according to your kill signal...

i.e. for my auto upgrading server, i send kill -s USR1 and it creates a save game for me. that way i can schedule exactly what time i want a save game to occure + i can add revision numbers and timestamps etc.
however this does require a *nix system and running the server dedicated.

[Qu@rks]

Sounds very complicated

[dihedral]

open src/network/network_server.cpp
add
IConsoleCmdExec("exec scripts/on_yearly.scr 0");
to the function
void NetworkServerYearlyLoop()


here's a patch against trunk... http://pub.dihedral.de/openttd/r13691_s ... early.diff
(it's server side only... you dont need it on the clients!)
it should work on other version (like 0.6.x)

[Qu@rks]

I'll try my best!