Respawn and ranks

[barbolani 198]

Hi!

 

I am not sure if I am missing something, so I post here.

 

Ranks in my mission are important and upgradeable, so I need to preserve them on respawn.

 

I think some rank commands documentation in BIkI lack of info about globallity in MP on those commands.

 

So, my onPlayerRespawn.sqf among other things does this:

 

_nuevo = _this select 0;
_viejo = _this select 1;

if (isNull _viejo) exitWith {};

 

_nuevo setRank (rank _viejo);

 

Script runs flawlessly (no .rpt error and other actions pre and post this code run well)

 

But sometimes, in a way I cannot reproduce, I find players dying as SERGEANTs and respawning as PRIVATEs.

 

Does someone know this issue and workarounds?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Nikander 123]

Does someone know this issue and workarounds?

 

Hi barbolani, I don't know that issue in particular, but I would try this with onPlayerKilled.sqf:

player setVariable ["save_rank", rank (_this select 0)];

Then, with onPlayerRespawn.sqf:

player setRank (player getVariable ["save_rank", "PRIVATE"]);

Just an idea,

 

Nikander

[barbolani 198]

EDIT: BIG SORRY

 

You were totally true.

 

Rank of a dead unit is empty string.

 

So seting a variable with the rank, and seting rank to that variable was the solution.

 

BIG THANKS!!