How to make this TTT Map Vote have a cooldown?

[Charrax]

How do I make the following code have a map cooldown?

[lua]

--Amount of players who have to request a vote, 1=all, 0.5=half of everyone
local votereqperc= 0.75
--Voting time
local votetime = 20

--Checks if gamemode is terrortown
if GetConVarString("gamemode") == "terrortown" then
--Server side
if SERVER then

local votestarted = false
local voteoverride = false
local votestartrequests={}

local currentvotes={}
local playerlist={}

util.AddNetworkString("serverWantsAVote")
util.AddNetworkString("userChangedVote")
util.AddNetworkString("broadcastUserVoteChange")
util.AddNetworkString("mapVotingClosed")
util.AddNetworkString("playerWantsToStartVote")
RunConsoleCommand("mapcyclefile", "data/mapscyclething.txt")
if file.Exists("mapcyclething.txt", "DATA") != false then
file.Delete("mapcyclething.txt")
end

local maplist={}

for k,v in pairs(file.Find("maps/*.bsp", "GAME") ) do
local lowercasename = string.lower(v)
if (string.find(lowercasename, "yeahhh") or string.find(lowercasename, "wham_city") or string.find(lowercasename, "^ttt_")) then
local mat = nil
local Category = "Other"
local name= string.gsub(v, ".bsp", "")
mat="../maps/"..name..".png"
resource.AddFile(mat)
maplist[v]={Material = mat, Name = name}
end
end

for k,v in pairs(maplist) do
file.Append("mapcyclething.txt", v.Name.."\n")
end

local maps = string.Explode("\n",file.Read("mapcyclething.txt","DATA"))
table.remove(maps)

if not table.HasValue(maps,game.GetMap()) then
table.insert(maps, 1, game.GetMap())
end

local curmap=table.remove(maps,table.KeyFromValue(maps, game.GetMap()))
table.insert(maps, curmap)

file.Write("mapcyclething.txt","")
for k,v in pairs(maps) do
file.Append("mapcyclething.txt", v.."\n")
end

net.Receive("userChangedVote",function(len, ply)
local mapID=net.ReadInt(16)
playerlist[ply:UniqueID()]=mapID
net.Start("broadcastUserVoteChange")
net.WriteInt(mapID,16)
net.WriteString(ply:UniqueID())
net.Broadcast()
end)

function votingEnded()
for k,v in pairs(playerlist) do
currentvotes[v]=currentvotes[v]+1
end

local currmap=1
local maxvotes=0

for i=1,table.Count(maps) do
if currentvotes[i]>maxvotes then
maxvotes=currentvotes[i]
currmap=i
end
end

print("Winning map is "..maps[currmap])

for _, v in pairs(player.GetAll()) do
v:ChatPrint( "Winning map is "..maps[currmap].."! Loading..." )
end

timer.Simple(5,function() RunConsoleCommand("changelevel", maps[currmap]) end)

net.Start("mapVotingClosed")
net.Broadcast()

votestarted=false

end
--hook.Add("TTTBeginRound", "roundReallyStart", votingEnded)

local voteover=false

function startVoteMaybe()
local maxtime = GetConVarNumber("ttt_roundtime_minutes") or 10
if (GetConVarNumber("ttt_haste") or 0) == 1 then
maxtime = (GetConVarNumber("ttt_haste_starting_minutes") or 5) + table.Count(player.GetAll())*(GetConVarNumber("ttt_haste_minutes_per_death") or 0.5)
end
maxtime = maxtime + GetConVarNumber("ttt_preptime_seconds") + GetConVarNumber("ttt_posttime_seconds")
if GetGlobalInt("ttt_rounds_left", 6) == 1 or math.floor(((GetGlobalInt("ttt_time_limit_minutes") or 30)*60 - (CurTime()/60))) <= maxtime or voteoverride then
if voteover == false then
voteoverride = false
print("Sending vote request")
votestarted=true
net.Start("serverWantsAVote")
for i=1,table.Count(maps) do
currentvotes[i]=0
end
net.WriteTable(maps)
net.Broadcast()
timer.Simple(votetime, function() votingEnded() end )
voteover=true
return true
end
end
return false
end
-- hook.Add( "TTTPrepareRound", "roundStartThingy",startVoteMaybe)
hook.Add( "TTTDelayRoundStartForVote", "roundStartThingy",startVoteMaybe)

function voterequested(ply,strText,plyalive)
if string.Explode(" ", strText)[1] == "!letsvote" then
if voteoverride == false then

if votestartrequests[ply:UniqueID()] == 1 then
return ""
end

votestartrequests[ply:UniqueID()] = 1
local playercount=table.Count(player:GetAll())
playercount=math.floor(playercount*votereqperc)

if playercount < 1 then
playercount = 1
end

local votes=0

for k,v in pairs(player:GetAll()) do
if votestartrequests[v:UniqueID()] == 1 then
votes=votes+1
end
end

if votes >= playercount then
voteoverride=true
end

net.Start("playerWantsToStartVote")
net.WriteString(ply:GetName())
net.WriteInt(playercount,16)
net.WriteInt(votes,16)
net.Broadcast()

return ""
end
end
return strText
end
hook.Add("PlayerSay", "startvotemaybe", voterequested)
end
end

--Client Side
if CLIENT then
util.PrecacheSound("UI/buttonclick.wav")

local cl_mapvote = nil
local votebuttons = {}
local avatars = {}

local playerlists = {}

local currentvotes= {}
local oldvotes = {}

local playerVelX={}
local playerVelY={}
local playerPosX={}
local playerPosY={}

local listopened=false

local btnW=400
local btnH=20
local spacing=4

--Update loop
function thinking()
if cl_mapvote != nil and listopened then
gui.EnableScreenClicker(true)
cl_mapvote:MoveToFront()
for k,v in pairs(player.GetAll()) do
local id = v:UniqueID()
if avatars[id] != nil and currentvotes[id]!=0 then
local position = 1
for k,v in pairs(playerlists[currentvotes[id]]) do
if v == id then
position = k
end
end

local x = playerPosX[id]
local y = playerPosY[id]

local vx = playerVelX[id]
local vy = playerVelY[id]

local x2,y2 = votebuttons[currentvotes[id]]:GetPos()

x2 = x2+btnW-(btnH*(position))

local speed = 0.01

local dx = (x2-x)
local dy = (y2-y)

local dist = math.sqrt(dx*dx + dy*dy)

if dist > 0 then
dx=dx/dist
dy=dy/dist
end

vx= (vx+dx)*0.98
vy= (vy+dy)*0.98

if dist < 0.8 then
vx= vx*0.1
vy= vy*0.1
local vdist= math.sqrt(vx*vx + vy*vy)
if vdist < 1 then

vx = 0
vy = 0

x=x2
y=y2
end

end

--[[if math.abs(dx) <= 1.0 then
x=x2
end
if math.abs(dy) <= 1.0 then
y=y2
end
]]--

x = x + vx
y = y + vy

playerPosX[id] = x
playerPosY[id] = y
playerVelX[id] = vx
playerVelY[id] = vy

avatars[id]:SetPos(x,y)
end
end
end
end

hook.Add("Think", "updateloop", thinking)

--Will display how many votes there are for starting a vote and stuff.
net.Receive("playerWantsToStartVote", function()
local votename=net.ReadString()
local playercount=net.ReadInt(16)
local votecount=net.ReadInt(16)
if votecount < playercount then
chat.AddText(
"",
Color(100,244,0,255),
votename,
" wants to start a map vote! Type !letsvote if you also want to!\n",
Color(200,255,0,255),
"Votes: "..votecount.."/"..playercount
)
else
chat.AddText(
Color(100,244,0,255),
votename.." voted, and filled the voting quota!\nMap vote will begin at the end of this round."
)
end
surface.PlaySound("UI/buttonclick.wav")
chat.PlaySound()
end)

--When a user has changed what map they want
net.Receive("broadcastUserVoteChange", function()
if listopened then
local map=net.ReadInt(16)
local user=net.ReadString()

if currentvotes[user] != map then

if currentvotes[user] != nil and currentvotes[user] != 0 then
local position = 1
for k,v in pairs(playerlists[currentvotes[user]]) do
if v == id then
position = k
end
end
table.remove(playerlists[currentvotes[user]],position)
end

table.insert(playerlists[map], user)

--oldvotes[user]=currentvotes[user]

currentvotes[user]=map
end
end
end)

--Closes the voting window
function closeVotingWindow()
if cl_mapvote != nil and listopened then
listopened=false
cl_mapvote:AlphaTo(0,0.5,0)
timer.Simple(0.5,function()
cl_mapv

[Charrax]

Nobody?

[Nak]

Well you can make a table to control it.
Something like this:

Map["Name.bsp"] = 0
Map["Name.bsp"] = 0
Map["AmapOnCooldown"] = 3

People are only able to vote for maps with 0.
Each startup will decrease the number until it hits 0.
Save the list to a txt file and don.

[Charrax]

Could you tell me how I would put that in the code? I am lost.

Also this means I would have to specify each map manually? Would this defeat the purpose of line 36? (I am fine with manual specification)

How would I go about this?

[Thetomm2010]

there seriously has to be an easier way. I'm trying to figure out the same problem,but, no one seems to know how to fix it.

[Ludicium]

*snip*

[Thetomm2010]

that is very nice. I added you.