Wipes, Refreshes & Movement Tracking...Oh my

[Daede]

Hi,

I was wondering if I could get some clarification on the Timetable and the parameters you can pass to it…

I’m wanting to wipe 3 systems and their planets daily, wipe 21 systems and their planets weekly, refresh POIs on 15 systems and their planets every Sunday and Wednesday, and refresh resources in the same 15 systems on the 1st of every month.

I’ve already figured out how to make the daily and weekly stuff respawn with a different seed every time, but I just don’t know the parameters to pass to the timetable to refresh every poi/resource on a planet…

What does player cleanup do? Does it get rid of inactive players and their structures or do I have to pass it parameters?

Is the parameter for Wipe the name of the playfield? so would it be:
Wipe, Daily At, 04:00, Akua (PvE)#Luna (PvE)#Masperon (PvP)#Moon of Masperon (PvP)#Ningues (PvE)#Sol (Contested PvE)

for each system being wiped (above, Sol (Contested PvE) is the system, containing the rest of the playfields)?

Reset Deposit and Reset POI - Are these per deposit and per POI? If so, how do I gather the deposits and POIs to list them for reset, and what is the proper way to reset them using the timetable? If not, then does the parameter look like this:

Reset POI, Sunday at 04:00, Glutton System (PvP)#Ariel#Ares#Aberdeen#Boros#Wayward#Whitefall

for each system full of POIs I want to refresh? Above, Glutton is the system and the rest are the bodies in that system.

Finally,
Do I need to issue timetable commands to start and stop playfields before the scheduled wipes and refreshes, or is this something the system handles automatically?

I’m doing pretty good at figuring all of these things out on my own through trial and error, but a few quick answers would sure speed up the process…

Thanks,
-Jay

[Jascha]

Hey,

sorry that our documentation is not that far yet… Mabye I sit down next week and update it a bit

A few things you can find out here:

https://eah.empyrion-homeworld.net/documentation/flyout-menu/timetable

Especially the Picture on the ground shows you how it works with wipes. Just put all Playfields seperated by # into the parameters.

@Daede

What does player cleanup do? Does it get rid of inactive players and their structures or do I have to pass it parameters?

It DELETES all player on that playfield. It was a request of one server. Not sure you want that. After that all players on that playfield have to restart again.

@Daede

Is the parameter for Wipe the name of the playfield? so would it be:Wipe, Daily At, 04:00, Akua (PvE)#Luna (PvE)#Masperon (PvP)#Moon of Masperon (PvP)#Ningues (PvE)#Sol (Contested PvE)

As mentioned above, exactly. As long as “(PVE)” is also in the name of your playfields.

@Daede

for each system being wiped (above, Sol (Contested PvE) is the system, containing the rest of the playfields)?

No just the Playfield you enter. If you enter only the Orbit/System, then it will only wipe the orbit, not the planets.

@Daede

Reset Deposit and Reset POI - Are these per deposit and per POI? If so, how do I gather the deposits and POIs to list them for reset, and what is the proper way to reset them using the timetable? If not, then does the parameter look like this:

Reset POI, Sunday at 04:00, Glutton System (PvP)#Ariel#Ares#Aberdeen#Boros#Wayward#Whitefall

for each system full of POIs I want to refresh? Above, Glutton is the system and the rest are the bodies in that system.

Exactly. In the timetable you have to Put Reset POI/ or if you want to combine it (since it does a backup and restart of the server) you could also use Reset Deposit and POI… In the parameter you just put all the playfields where you want to reset them.
But he only resets those poi’s and deposits that you enter in the Depoist/POI list.

See here for more Infos: https://eah.empyrion-homeworld.net/documentation/flyout-menu/deposit-poi-reset

So you can automatically load all pois via the button, but the deposits you would have to do manually by entering the coordinates. You can also do it by going thee with your player and then right-click on your player: “Information->Set Deposit from position”
All those Deposits/Pois that are listed in this list would be reseted, if the playfield is mentioned in the parameters in timetable.

@Daede

for each system full of POIs I want to refresh? Above, Glutton is the system and the rest are the bodies in that system.

Exactly, for each playfield.

@Daede

Do I need to issue timetable commands to start and stop playfields before the scheduled wipes and refreshes, or is this something the system handles automatically?

No, since each of those timetable entries does also do a backup and restart of the server. It does not do it on the fly.
Therefore you also cant just put more then one of those timetable entries at the same time. Thats why we made those combined jobs.

Sorry again for the bad docu… we are working on it

Greetings,

Jascha

[Daede]

Jascha,

Thank you for your very timely reply.

Regarding refreshing POIs vs Deposits:

While I an refreshing POIs and deposits on the same 15 systems, I’m refreshing POIs every Sunday and Wednesday and deposits on the 1st of every month. These are my wipe-safe systems, but it’s been agreed by everyone who will play here that wipe safe gets seriously boring on every server because all the POIs die in the first couple of days, so we’re going to refresh them twice a day, and refresh deposits on the first of every month. People will be made aware not to build within 500m of a POI and to pick up their autominers on the last day of every month or lose them.

I won’t have any problem specifically setting these events up separately, will I?

Thanks again,
-Jay

[Daede]

Also,

Is Par2 in the timetable ever used? If so, for what?