Efficient solution for countdown timer

[Devops]

I need to send a countdown timer to the players in the room before the game starts.
So I need to maintain a timer for few seconds to send event on every second to the players in room

For this purpose what would be the best and efficient thing to do and why?
- Using Task scheduler
- Using setInterval

I would need a efficient way so that it won't be causing any issue when many rooms are active and many countdown events have to be sent if many rooms are active at a time

[Lapo]

Hi,
using the scheduler seems a good fit.
You can simply add a non-repeating Task that runs after 1 second and keeps track of the countdown. The task will run and send a message to the client, then check if the countdown is complete. If not it will reschedule itself.

For this you can use the global TaskScheduler, the one you access via:

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getApi().getSystemScheduler();

and maybe reconfigure its thread pool, to 10-12 threads. This should be enough to handle hundreds of tasks, probably even thousands, since the Task is very light.

To change the default number of threads: AdminTool > Server Configurator

Hope it helps