How does isLaterOrEqualThan work and how can I use it in modding

Game Dev Tycoon modding
#1

Hello there, another question. What the title says. What does this do? I found this in the game’s code.

a.isLaterOrEqualThan = function(a, c, b) {
        var e = this.getCurrentDate();
        return e.year > a || e.year === a && e.month > c || e.year === a && e.month === c && e.week >= b
    };

a. is

var a = Company.prototype;

I don’t know the rest, so I can’t know what a, c, b are. Maybe it’s year, month, week? Please answer, and if it’s possible to be put into an api mod, many thanks.

#3

It essentially checks if some is less or equal to something, kinda self explanatory

#4

Is it used with dates? Can I add this to a research in the CanResearch so if a time passes, It just pops-up and can be researched?

#5

It can be used with more then dates i believe

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#6

How can I put it into a mod with the api? Paste the code?

#7

noitdoesnot

#8

@tmch

Key words here

#9

Well? Any help of making use of it in mods and what it does?

#10

returns a boolean whether it is over year,month,week

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#11

a.isLaterOrEqualThan = function(a, c, b) {
        var e = this.getCurrentDate();
       
return e.year > a || e.year === a && e.month > c ||
e.year === a && e.month === c && e.week >= b
    };

so, a = year, c = month and b = week?

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#12

I understand, you call the function with with a date and it returns true if is later or equal to the current week. For example:

var z = isLaterOrEqualThan(20,5,2)

z is true if the current date is later or equal than the year 20 month 5 week 2

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#13

you forgot the semicolon :angry:

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#14

@tmch pfft, nevermind semicolons

@Mabb thanks, I suppose I can use it in normal researches, right?

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#15

@tmch in C t he program dont work without semicolons but in javscript it sems you dont need it
@FireChaos i don t know how the research system works but probably you can add a condition that only add the research when it s true. Look the other mods code or the game code how they did. Now i can 't have acces to my computer i can t help you more.

#16

I dont think if statements really work, I get errors all the time, but I’ll try.

#17

Semicolon-less is ok 99 times out of 100. The 100th time is this:

return
{
    some: 'object'
}

Which returns undefined.

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#18

So, what do I need to do here?

#19

isLaterOrEqualThan(15, 5, 2) will tell you whether the current date is on or after the second week of the fifth month of the fifteenth year. Possibly need to -1 each of them, can’t remember if dates in GDT are zero based atm.

You might use this a trigger for one of your events. If you wanted to have a chance for the player to win a competition from year 20, you might have a trigger function like so:

trigger: function (company) {
    return company.isLaterOrEqualThan(20, 1, 1) && Math.random() > 0.8;
}

Because it is on the Company prototype, you need an instance of company to actually call the function. (If you tried to COmpany.prototype.isLaterOrEqualThan it would complain about missing getCurrentDate() )

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#20

Thanks for that, but can it be used with researches? I hope so. So we can trigger a research much like Achievements or Save to cloud which are able to research with that same thing.

#21

You’re given the current company instance as a parameter to canResearch, so yes, you can use it there.

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