Next Wave Time and Enemy Number

[emurnane]

• [ ] 1. The "Next Wave" time (I believe the GLOBAL.GAMEHOUR variable, but correct me if I'm wrong) — for me, it's always starting at 8:00PM. Is this the default?
• [ ] 2. And is it correct that this is not the time on a particular date but rather, the number of enemies and the number of bullets available during that wave time are an average of all incoming and outgoing mail, respectively, at that time of day, based on the player's entire email data?
• [ ] 3. If so, can someone point me to the location in the code where the average number of incoming enemies is computed?
• [ ] 4. The "Enemy Number" shown in the upper right hand corner of the screen (which I believe is the variable HOURENEMYNUMBER, but correct me if I'm wrong) — similar question to above, is this an average number of enemies received at the given time being played at the moment or something else? If average, can you point me to the location in the code where it's computed?

Please leave a comment to respond to these questions. Mention the question number(s) you're answering (1, 2, 3, or 4), and feel free to link to the relevant source code in the repo.

[ik226]

1. at _shouldCreateEnemy() in controller.js, it calls GameInfoDisplay.hourSplash() when:

if (GLOBAL.HOURITR > totalhourloops + (2 * GLOBAL.FPS) && GLOBAL.ENEMIES.length === 0) {
                GLOBAL.HOURITR = 0;
                GLOBAL.HOURENEMYNUMBER = 0;
                GLOBAL.GAMEHOUR++;
                    GameInfoDisplay.hourSplash();
            }

Then, GameInfoDisplay.hourSplash() calls Utils.UTCHourToLocalHour(GLOBAL.GAMEHOUR), that does Date.setUTCHours(GLOBAL.GAMEHOUR). Here, setting UTC hours with GLOBAL.GAMEHOUR , which starts from 0, makes the date's hour value to be 8 (I believe that's because of our time zone...) . So, I should say this is default.

[emurnane]

Thanks, Re: 1 — let's change this so the game starts at 6AM (see issue https://github.com/emurnane/EmailDrivenAppsEngine/issues/34) (i.e., test to be sure game starts at 6AM regardless of what timezone the player is located in)