[Feature Request] Play Time Counter

Awong124

I haven't found anybody requesting this, though the search function is terrible. But would this be a difficult feature to implement? The game currently doesn't have one, does it? It would just be nice to know how much time I've spent on any particular save file. A lot of RPGs have something like this.

ajwz

Oh god, the shame.

Darkcloud

the request was asked before and I agree that it would be nice.

JuliusBorisov

Now when the games are fine in the playable state, maybe it's a good time to look on the requests like this.

The forum actually shows that the "hours spent in the game" counter would be a welcome enhancement.

http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/37442/how-many-hours-of-your-life-would-you-estimate-have-gone-into-the-bg-saga/p1

The most recent request comes from @BelgarathMTH http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/comment/609990/#Comment_609990

BelgarathMTH said:

I'm still seriously tempted to re-buy BG:EE 1 and 2 on Steam just so I can get that nice hours logged counter. I'd like to see how long I objectively spend on a full BG run.

Personally, I would support this request as much as I could. It would be awesome to see something like

Time spent in the game: 1 year

CrevsDaak

Actually, this can be done in-game with a custom script, just press K when you enter the game and L when you're going to exit, N to check how many time you've spent playing. This could be refined to track down minutes, but it would consume more memory and thus is not recommendable (if you want and have the computer, then it's OK, your choice, also one minute is enough to avoid any type of problems).

IF
		HotKey(K)
		Global("7c#hourspastplaying","GLOBAL",0)
		Global("7c#blockreset","GLOBAL",0)
THEN
		RESPONSE #100
				SetGlobalTimer("7c#timethissession","GLOBAL",3600)
				SetGlobal("7c#blockreset","GLOBAL",1)
END

IF
		GlobalTimerExpired("7c#timethissession","GLOBAL")
THEN
		RESPONSE #100
				IncrementGlobal("7c#hourspastplaying","GLOBAL",1)
				SetGlobalTimer("7c#timethissession","GLOBAL",3600)
END

IF
		HotKey(N)
THEN
		RESPONSE #100
				SetTokenGlobal(7c#hourspastplaying","GLOBAL","7C#HOURS_PLAYED")
				SetGlobal("7c#showtimeplaying","GLOBAL",1)
END

IF
		Global("7c#showtimeplaying","GLOBAL",1)
		GlobalGT("7c#hourspastplaying","GLOBAL",0)
THEN
		RESPONSE #100
				DisplayStringNoName(Player1,~You have been playing for <7C#HOURS_PLAYED> hour(s). Go and buy yourself a life.~)
				SetGlobal("7c#showtimeplaying","GLOBAL",0)
END

IF
		Global("7c#showtimeplaying","GLOBAL",1)
		GlobalLT("7c#hourspastplaying","GLOBAL",1)
THEN
		RESPONSE #100
				DisplayStringNoName(Player1,~Less than an hour and already checking the time, eeh? What are you, busy?~)
				SetGlobal("7c#showtimeplaying","GLOBAL",0)
END

IF
		HotKey(L)
		!Global("7c#hourspastplaying","GLOBAL",0)
		Global("7c#blockreset","GLOBAL",1)
THEN
		RESPONSE #100
				SetGlobal("7c#hourspastplaying","GLOBAL",0)
				SetGlobalTimer("7c#timethissession","GLOBAL",3600)
				SetGlobal("7c#blockreset","GLOBAL",0)
END

Tagging @BelgarathMTH and @bengoshi for shameless promotion because they were interested. If you guys really want something like this I could put together a WeiDU mod that adds a custom player script. It doesn't sum up the time from previous sessions, but that could be remedied anyway (another global variable, but it's specific to a run (saved game), anyway...)

JuliusBorisov

Ohh my God, Crevs. OF COURSE I VOTE WITH BOTH MY HANDS for such a mod!

CrevsDaak

@bengoshi thanks for the promote I'll later get to it, and I'll make it track down minutes too (I think paused time doesn't count anyway).

Also, I got a nice idea, if you check the values of the time spent in each save you can figure out the total time spent playing (not considering Auto and Quick saves).

Edit: thread posted here. Enjoy