Making an always running/active game.

News & General Discussion
1

I am creating a game that needs to run 24/7. I am doing an API call every 5 seconds to check for a change in game state however the scripts stops running after some time. I have created a timer in Update() and that stops after an hour or so and I have created a Coroutine that calls itself after 5 seconds and that stops after 3 or so hours. The rest of the game is running fine. Is the script falling asleep? Does anyone have an idea what is going on?

2

How can we tell if you won’t actually show us the code in question?

3

Here is the Update code (Runs for about an hour)

   void Update()
{
    if (Time.time > callAPIDuration_PlusTime)
    {
        DoAPICall();
        callAPIDuration_PlusTime = Time.time + 5;
    }
}

Here is the Coroutine (Runs for 3 hours then stops)

 IEnumerator CallApi()
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(5f);
        DoAPICall();
        StartCoroutine(CallApi());
    }
4

You reschedule a new coroutine every time. It would be more efficient if you put the yield and call in a while(true) statement.