Script bug or not?

**Xurr** · 03-21-2008, 22:44

So today I took a look at the giant script that comes with EB. I noticed in section 10 at the end a bunch of do while loops that would effectively stop the script at the "while" loop. This would and probably is the cause of most of the "lag" that players see. I'm wondering if there is any real reason to use a loop like this?

Code:

     console_command date 10
     console_command season summer
     set_counter seasonCounter 3
     while I_TurnNumber = 1130
	    suspend_unscripted_advice true
     end_while

I guess my question really is, is there a reason to turn off unscripted advice 1000 times per second other than stopping the script?

I think if you replaced each block with a simple if test you increase performance quite a bit

Something like this.

Code:

 If I_TurnNumber = 1130
  	console_command date 11
 	console_command season summer
	set_counter seasonCounter 2
	suspend_unscripted_advice true
 end_If

Hope this helps.

**LorDBulA** · 03-21-2008, 23:36

I'm wondering if there is any real reason to use a loop like this?

There must be one while loop that lasts till the end of EB timeframe.
Without it script will run to the end and exit.

Of course you can try different implementations of 4tpy script but you will still end up with while loop that is running all the time.

I dont remember if we used this script from the beginning but I remember that there was no significant ( relative to current EB slowness ) slowdowns.
It just grew over the time as we where adding more and more scripts.

**Atilius** · 03-22-2008, 07:34

Originally Posted by Xurr

I think if you replaced each block with a simple if test you increase performance quite a bit

Something like this.

Code:

 If I_TurnNumber = 1130
  	console_command date 11
 	console_command season summer
	set_counter seasonCounter 2
	suspend_unscripted_advice true
 end_If

Yeah, you're right. It'll have a huge impact on performance because the script will terminate almost instantly.