Tracking client connect time

[Cobalt]

Trying to make some QC that stores the clients "playtime" (total time connected to server) and keeps between level changes.

So far unsuccessful....)

Fundamantally, I believe we need to store the value of time when the client connects, so I used .connect_time for that.

Also I made .playtime and .client_time floats where I am thinking playtime will be the total time connected before the level change, and we add it to .client_time, then pass .client_time to a parm to be decoded next level. We then check playtime during the decode and if its not -1 we assume the client just connected , otherwise if its -1 we are carrying over the time from last level, so reset playtime to start counting from the start of the new level. Otherwise if we have client_time carried from last level, we just add it to the new playtime value which will be something like time / 60. I know it sounds crude, but for some reason I have been stuck on getting this right for a while, any help appreciated.

[PrimalLove]

[Cobalt]

Still havent tried your code yet PL, but I noticed if you type "status", in DP at least, there is a total elapsed time field to the far right. It also keeps between level changes via changelevel. Wonder if there is a way to grab that from the engine somehow...? I guess an engine coder needs to weigh in to answer that.

[PrimalLove]

[Cobalt]

Hey very good PL, looks like you dove into the engine code to answer this. thanks. I will have to try your code soon.

Makes me wonder if there would be a way to "Auto extension" any engine variable / global like that which is not available qc side. Sort of like how we addstat in csqc for a qc field.

[Spike]

[Cobalt]