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[12345hassan]

Can someone help me to code a timer of ban?
Like when i ban a player using a command and the time i enter the countdown will start and after the time ends he will be unbanned
like
/b;Hassan;23:4:60
and it sets the timer on the players database
InfoPPL.Set("bantime", 23:4:60)

[Emalton]

Maybe when you ban someone for example a day, store the current DateTime in their PlayerObject with an additional day, and check to see if that time has passed when they join a room.

[robscherer123]

Yes, I do this for banning my players. Just check ban them and set the ban property to UTC + when they are to be unbanned. And when they try to log in, you can count the number of days it has been by subtracting the current UTC time by their ban date time. There is a TimeSpan class which can be used to count the elapsed amount of time between the two.

[12345hassan]

Can u gimme code?

[robscherer123]

Something along the lines of this:

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//Below will ban the player for 3 days.
dbObject.set("banEnd", DateTime.UtcNow.AddDays(3));

//Below will check the players ban time that has passed once their data has been loaded.
TimeSpan banTimeRemaining = dbObject.GetDateTime("banEnd") - DateTime.Now;
if(banTimeRemaining.totalDays <= 0){
     //The player has be unbanned here.
} else {
    //The player can not be unbanned.  banTimeRemaining.totalDays will show the amount of days remaining.
}


That's a simplified version off the top of my head, but I believe something like that should work.

[12345hassan]

I tried the code the ban works the time finishes and player doesnt get unban

[Emalton]

What I do is similar:

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public override void GameStarted()
{
    PreloadPlayerObjects = true;
}

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public override bool AllowUserJoin(Player player)
{
    if (player.PlayerObject.GetDateTime("BannedEnd", DateTime.MinValue) > DateTime.UtcNow)
    {
        // They are banned.
        return false;
    }
    else
    {
        // They are not banned, let them through.
        return true;
    }
}

[12345hassan]

My problem is that the time finishes and the player isnt unbanned

[Emalton]

My problem is that the time finishes and the player isnt unbanned

Both snippets of code above work fine for me, are you talking about removing the property based off the time? There isn't a really good way to do this, just check to see if the banishment end date was in the past when they join and if so remove it and let them through. You don't need a timer for this.