Feature Count ascensions since rollover

[Irrat]

Currently there doesn't seem to be a way to track how many times the user has ascended since rollover.

It'd be useful for a script as it means it can check what leg of their loop they should be running, as the alternative is either guessimating by their current state or to store a preference of their own.

As a brief example, when I log in for the first time. ascensionsToday = 0, I ascend into casual. ascensionsToday = 1.

I run my script, and it knows that I am on my first ascension, and I will be ascending again today.

I ascend, and ascensionsToday = 2. The script knows I will be ending rollover on this ascension.

That said, I'm not sure if mafia does any sort of rollover tracking, even _potatoAlarmClockUsed is a daily flag when it should be a rollover flag as it can only trigger once/rollover.

 

[gausie]

I would be interested in an _ascensionsToday pref, PRs welcome. Potato alarm clock should be fixed on the mafia end - we can problably give it a _ exception to only apply on true rollover.

 

[Veracity]

Yeah, potato alarm clock is fine as a “_”, since it will clear on rollover, just like all such properties do. Making it not clear on ascension would be accurate.

But, considering it’s just “informative” - it tells you whether you got 5 extra turns at rollover; if it is “false”, there is nothing you can do to change it - I can’t imagine why a script would change its behavior based on it being true vs. false.

Which is to say, although I like accuracy, it’s a purely cosmetic change - and would be way down on my personal priority list.

 

[Baden]

Proper mafia support for this would be amazing. I've been using the following function that parses the session log to count ascensions:

import {
  fileToBuffer,
  myName,
  todayToString,
} from "kolmafia";

export function ascensionsToday(): number {
  const sessionLog = fileToBuffer(`${myName()}_${todayToString()}.txt`);
  return (sessionLog.match(/Ascend as a .+? banking \d+ Karma./g) || []).length;
}

 

[gausie]

It's a simple PR, please do make it!

 

[Irrat]

I think the biggest question is, do we increment it when we jump into the gash, or when we pick a path?

 

[Irrat]

PR created: https://github.com/kolmafia/kolmafia/pull/922