What this is doing is creating a continuous timer to run events from. The next release for this mod will entail a fully functional alarm and Active/Passive event manager that can be called from any item, station, ship, system, or script. This will hopefully allow many objects to make use of the same background timer, and should help us to expand into fun things like evolving items over time, trade and inventory updates for stations and lots of other things. The active part of this project will allow for scripts to be fired from the timer, rather than activating items from an Invoke, for example, an item could "activate itself" from the timer.
Passive updates for events such as trade adjustments or interest payments wouldn't necessarily need the active timer, but the method to add them in by date: hour, day, week, month, year and the hopefully easy method to add an event should make it worth having the update code centralized in a function set such as this one. (yes, trade and station inventory updates could simply run when needed from a unvGetTick function, but this is funner)
edit- I suppose I could add the link at this point.
Mod On XelerusMod Notes- Install into Extensions folder. This mod overrides the stStarGate entry and the dsShipInterior and should be compatible with most 0.98d mods on Xelerus and any of my own mods.
Currently the timer is set to pass an hour every 120 ticks (4 seconds real time) Let me know what you think the time ratio should be, if it seems not to be running the way you, like, think it ought to be.
You can reset the time easily from the <OnCreate> of the Stargate. That is where the ticks are set for frequency of running the timer update code.
