How to control the amount of time a user can play a game or mission?

#1 I believe that GameCore.cs overrides this -- and which in turn is overrideen by the cusotm "gametype" cs files (eg: GameDM.cs) ... though I have not checked the "duration" variables myself ...

#2 Steve's on the right track... but it's looking like the duration variable isn't being set/read/used correctly -- something might have gotten missed when things got trimmed down to the example scripts we have now.

#3 Ok, this is bugged. I would suggest editing the post to reflect the desired bug report format so that it can be acknowledged and fixed -- seems they need that sort of extra help ;)

EDIT: I'll go ahead and post a bug report since I'm already here.

To fix the problem, simply go into scripts/server/gameCore.cs, find function startGame() and change this:

// Start the game timer
if ($Game::Duration)
    $Game::Schedule = schedule($Game::Duration * 1000, 0, "onGameDurationEnd");

to:

// Start the game timer
if ($Game::Duration)
    $Game::Schedule = %game.schedule($Game::Duration * 1000, "onGameDurationEnd");// this line changed

Next, in function onGameDurationEnd() you'll have to change it so that it knows the %game variable (which is our gametype script object) as all other functions do. This will allow cycleGame to be properly called once the time limit expires.

function GameCore::onGameDurationEnd(%game) // changed here
{
   //echo (%game @"\c4 -> "@ %game.class @" -> GameCore::onGameDurationEnd");

   if ($Game::Duration && !isObject(EditorGui))
      %game.cycleGame(); // changed here
}

Or you can technically just make use of %this, the function automatically knows what %this is. I just showed the above to make it consistent with the rest of the script.

unction GameCore::onGameDurationEnd()  
{  
   //echo (%game @"\c4 -> "@ %game.class @" -> GameCore::onGameDurationEnd");  
  
   if ($Game::Duration && !isObject(EditorGui))  
      %this.cycleGame(); // changed here  
}

And lastly, in gameDM.cs (the default gametype if one isn't stated in the mission file) look for function initGameVars() and it has the overridden value for the default $Game::Duration global that was found in game.cs.

// Set the gameplay parameters
%game.duration = 30 * 60; // Change this to affect the time limit.
%game.endgameScore = 20;
%game.endgamePause = 10;
$Game::EndGameScore = 20;

Some thought should probably be given to making this override a bit more flexible/dynamic.

Hope that helps... I think that's all I changed.

#4 Oh, and it also looks like the endGame Gui takes no account of the EndGamePause variable so it doesn't actually cycle to the next mission once time expires.