reducing a value by -1 seems to subtract by 4

turnstyle

not sure what I'm doing wrong.

I simply created a button with a rule.
The rule has a timer that states: after 1 second, change attribute game.lives to game.lives -1

I start with 5 lives, after this plays I was down to only 1 life rather than 4 left.

THEN I did a test with 100 lives and sure enough it gets chipped away by 4 every second.

-thanks for any help on this

chosenonestudios

can you upload a downloadable project so I can take a look?

turnstyle

OK weird, I created a brand new file and setup the exact same thing and it works as expected. not sure why my main file goes by 4's. If I figure it out, I'll post the solution in case this happens to anyone else.

chosenonestudios

turnstyle said:
OK weird, I created a brand new file and setup the exact same thing and it works as expected. not sure why my main file goes by 4's. If I figure it out, I'll post the solution in case this happens to anyone else.

Something else in your rules is causing this... Look and see if theres any conflicting interests in your rule set

turnstyle

still unsure why this happened. Maybe a timer conflict, but I solved it by...

if the player doesn't hit the button in a certain time, then change attribute game.miss to 1

then in the lives a rule was made if attribute game.miss = 1 then subtract game.lives by 1.

same thing just instead of using a time limit to trigger a negative 1 to lives, I just triggered an either on or off state to a new attribute called "miss", then the "lives" get changed based on the miss attribute.

giacomopoppi

well if 1 is taking away 4 lives... why dont you do 0.25 so it should go to 1 life/sec???
this my work/may not

EDIT: opps, didnt see u had already solved it