Avoid spam msg on Hook

Hello, i am very new to this and i experimenting on some hooks to wrote a plugin.
i want use this as example

Code:

void OnLootEntity(BasePlayer player, BaseEntity entity)
{
    Puts("OnLootEntity works!");
}

if player start looting all good msg is come up, but if a player start looting ends it and agian start looting it will spam the server with the msg. so i want add something to avoid it for example 2-3 minutes.

example: player start looting, the msg comes, and then it will not show the msg for 2-3minutes anymore, if the hook is calleds.

thx in advance

 

i think i have found now a solution for it

Code:

DateTime lastLootStart = new DateTime(2009, 8, 1, 0, 0, 0);
DateTime lastLootEnd = new DateTime(2009, 8, 1, 0, 0, 0);void OnLootEntity(BasePlayer player, BaseEntity entity)
{
if (lastLootEnd >= lastLootStart)
    {
               lastLootStart = DateTime.Now;
               lastLootStart = lastLootStart.AddSeconds(60);               Puts("OnLootEntity works!");
    }
lastLootEnd = DateTime.Now;
}

or is there a better solution, i am very new to this and no know how for it

 

Something to keep in mind as I also started developing recently, this is going to affect all players.

You may want to keep a running collection of players and their own loot times. Can implement easily with a structure like

Code:

public static Dictionary<ulong, DateTime> PlayerLootTimers = new Dictionary<ulong, DateTime>();

Where ulong is the players id number

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