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Diff between WAIT and TICK?   
Malkin

Malkin
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  10/14/2011

What are the advantages and disadvantages between using WAIT or TICK and a timer script to, perchance, make an egg hatch?

My TCR Norns
 
AquaShee

AquaShee



  10/14/2011

WAIT makes the current script wait x ticks, TICK makes the timer script run every X ticks.

The advantage with TICK is that the waiting period won't be interrupted if another script gets called. So if a norn picks up an egg or drops it, and there is a drop or pickup script that gets called, the script currently WAITing would simply abort unless it was locked, while the Timer script would still fire on schedule.


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