How do i stop this stacking?

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#1

So currently im making a buff system to every target inside the ability post range, It’ll be like everytime you clicked the ability button it will activate the buff. And here come the issue, everytime there’s multiple of a tower that have the ability it will stack the buff. Is there a way i could fix this? also you activate the ability through gui

		local OldFirerate = {}
			
			for i,v in pairs(workspace.Towers:GetChildren()) do
				local TowerStats = require(v.Stats)
				local Distance = (newTower.HumanoidRootPart.Position - v.HumanoidRootPart.Position).Magnitude
				local towerFirerate = TowerStats.Cooldown
				
				v.Head.Material = Enum.Material.Neon
				if Distance <= TowerRange then
					if not OldFirerate[v] then
						OldFirerate[v] = {
							Cooldown = TowerStats.Cooldown
						}
					end

					local OgCD = OldFirerate[v].Cooldown

					if TowerStats.Cooldown == OldFirerate[v].Cooldown then
						local newFirerate = towerFirerate * OverallBuff
						TowerStats.Cooldown = newFirerate
					end
				end
				print(TowerStats.Cooldown)
			end
#2

If im understanding this correctly just add an if under the main loop after applying the a buff to check if a buff already exists, if so, do nothing, break the loop

#3

Or you could tie the buff to something like an boolean attribute; Just enable and disable it’s value when within its range - if its already enabled, you wouldn’t need to change it.

#4

Well it’s not a loop, it basically like you activate the gui button and the effect is given