I want to make it so that whenever a different team captures a flag it stops the loop that gives the other team a currency and starts the loop that gives the team that captured it a currency.
When I try to stop the 1st while loop it somehow doubles the 2nd while loop’s speed. But it works fine if the 2nd while loop starts first and then gets stopped to start the 1st while loop. This problem does not occur when ‘‘Empire’’ captures the flag from ‘‘Kingdom’’ (see video) https://streamable.com/bq4swh
I’ve tried looking at the dev forum for a solution, and i’ve tried using breaks but it did not stop the speeding up.
The code may seem a bit makeshift (I don’t use loops often). Everytime the function is called im setting the 2 booleans to false so both loops ‘‘stop’’ and then It starts the different loop by setting that boolean to true.
I’ve decided to not send the code that sends the parameters since that isnt where the problem is.
Here is the code:
local suncontrolled = false
local kingdomcontrolled = false
function mineflag(number)
suncontrolled = false
kingdomcontrolled = false
if number == 1 then
suncontrolled = true
elseif
number == 2 then
kingdomcontrolled = true
end
while suncontrolled == true do
module.SunEmpire.Money = module.SunEmpire.Money + 1
print("EmpireCurrency", module.SunEmpire.Money)
wait(1)
end
while kingdomcontrolled == true do
module.Kingdom.Money = module.Kingdom.Money + 1
print("KingdomCurrency", module.Kingdom.Money)
wait(1)
end
end
I appreciate all help & tips on how to fix this, or suggestions on how to make this work some other way!
Instead of two loops, have one that has an if statement in it. If sunControled then give the Sun Empire a reward. Elseif kingdomControlled, give Kingdom a reward. This can be an infinite loop placed in an anonymous spawned function or another script so that you can continue doing other things in your main script like ending the game (if you do that)
You can also add another variable that causes the loop to exit. I recommend making a counter and if it’s value is higher then then it started, stop the loop. This allows starting and stopping the loop quickly to not cause multiple loops to continue ruining.
I could not fix the problem though, ive removed the second loop and added an if statement in the single loop and whenever the flag gets captured by the kingdom team, the sun team still receives the reward.
I didn’t quite understand the counter part, as in how I would execute it.
local suncontrolled = false
local kingdomcontrolled = false
function mineflag(number)
local suncontrolled = false
local kingdomcontrolled = false
if number == 1 then
suncontrolled = true
elseif
number == 2 then
kingdomcontrolled = true
end
while true do
if suncontrolled == true then
module.SunEmpire.Money = module.SunEmpire.Money + 1
print("EmpireCurrency", module.SunEmpire.Money)
wait(1)
elseif
kingdomcontrolled == true then
module.Kingdom.Money = module.Kingdom.Money + 1
print("KingdomCurrency", module.Kingdom.Money)
wait(1)
end
end
end
The problem right now is that the function mineflag never ends. Depending on how you call it you might end up having multiple versions of it running at the same time.
How about you put the while outside of the mineflag function:
local suncontrolled = false
local kingdomcontrolled = false
function mineflag(number)
if number == 1 then
suncontrolled = true
elseif
number == 2 then
kingdomcontrolled = true
end
end
--[[ Put here anything else in the code before starting the while loop ]]
while true do
if suncontrolled == true then
module.SunEmpire.Money = module.SunEmpire.Money + 1
print("EmpireCurrency", module.SunEmpire.Money)
wait(1)
elseif
kingdomcontrolled == true then
module.Kingdom.Money = module.Kingdom.Money + 1
print("KingdomCurrency", module.Kingdom.Money)
wait(1)
end
end
