The game always begin in Year 1, Month 1, Week 2 about refugeewaves

[Clauvin]

It happens because of the delay in loading everything to the game. If I can lock down the timer... or speed up the loading...

[Clauvin]

Tomorrow.

[Clauvin]

Ok, better thing to do is to lock the timer until everything is set.

[Clauvin]

Easiest way to do it is to just trigger a pause as the game begins, so the timer stays frozen until the player effectively starts playing.

But that means he has a chance of not knowing how to unpause, so the Pause Button needs an extra button.

[Clauvin]

Done, now only need to test it.

[Clauvin]

...didn't work. When the game is unpaused, the timer goes straight to week 2.

[Clauvin]

Ok, plan B: the specific McGyverism which I created now also must change the game time to 0. That should solve the problem... i guess?

[Clauvin]

No. It will be an extra McGuyvering which makes a confusion of the save/load system as well. Urgh... there's only one easy way to solve this.

The first week must start before zero.

[Clauvin]

This will have to be properly solved in Alpha 1... specifically, to undo my McGuyverism and guarantee that, until everything in the game is properly loaded, the game does not start counting time.

Writing this now, the solution is probably not hard to do, just takes work and time... which I don't have now.

[Clauvin]

And it did NOT work.

I will have to analyze this better, tomorrow.

[Clauvin]

Theory to test: the time is passing since the beggining, in the menu screen.

[Clauvin]

Ok, I'm delaying this to Alpha 1.

[Clauvin]

Ok, I think I found it.

timeElapsed + (TimerManager.time - timeLastUnpaused)

The problem is this calculus on checkForPassageOfTime().

[Clauvin]

Found it. The problem is on timeElapsed. Somehow, timeElapsed is bigger than 0 when the Pause Window is closed and that makes the first week pass too fast.

[Clauvin]

Ok, so why the game HAS to start paused?

[Clauvin]

Oh. It needs to probably to avoid loading the game and not looking to its time properly updated. So, the plan is to add a fix inside the mcguyverism that can't be removed.