C# (Cash/Money Per Sec)

Unity Engine
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Hi, I’ve recently been watching tutorials on the process of making a idle/incremental game. Now I understand they are very overused and common now-a-days on unity. I’ve gotten done with a lot of the process, but I’m still kind of stuck on the cash/money per sec. Could someone help me out please?

2

It’s probably just me, but could you please elaborate a bit more on this? What exactly are you trying to do?

3

No, I understand completely. I want to be able to ‘purchase’ a upgrade that gives me a certain amount of cash per sec. For instance if I bought a upgrade that cost ___ cash and would give me ___ cash per ___ seconds. Sorry if I don’t make it sound clear, I’m kind of new to all of this.

4

So you want like:

  1. Player spends/invests $100
  2. Player earns a total of $120 over the next 120 seconds
    Is that what you mean?

Relevant: does your currency system support fractions or is it just whole dollars?

5

You just need to watch the Time.time, and when it’s time to pay out more cash, do it. Something like this.

public class CashPerSec : MonoBehaviour {
  public float payout = 1;
  public float interval = 1;
  float nextPayoutTime;

  void Update() {
    if (Time.time > nextPayoutTime) {
      Debug.Log("Awarding $" + payout + "!");
      GetComponent<Wallet>().AddCash(payout);
      nextPayoutTime = Time.time + interval;
    }
  }
}

Note that I wasn’t sure how you’re keeping track of your cash, so I just imagined you have some “Wallet” component on the same object, that has a public AddCash method.

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Yes this helped, but one other thing. Could you help me with the public integers? I’m looking to make multiple upgrades, so I could edit them individually.