Mage's might wait

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How do you wait in Mage’s might?

I can’t import time, and if I try to run a loop using the hero.time, it keeps saying there is an infinite loop.

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3

What do u mean? (20000)

4

can’t you just use hero.wait(1) ?

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5

The way you can wait is by setting a variable to the current time plus however much you want to wait for and check if the current time is greater than the variable.

6

Codecombat does not provide the time module, and Mages’ Might does not provide the .wait() function.

CodeCombat intercepts your while loops and artifically adds a one-tick delay between iterations. That’s why the code forever: do nothing runs fine.

To wait time, just cycle through a while-true loop doing nothing, and the one-tick delays add up. You can either do this in your main loop as JWH suggests or with a utility function to wait inline:

// JS
function delay(ticks) {
  while (true)
    if (!(ticks --))
      break;
}
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It’s strange, because there’s already hero.now()/hero.time() in CodeCombat, but it’s not usable in Mage’s Might. :thinking: