How would I make a wait() in a while loop?

[anmocha]

I am currently developing a program that awards points to players and grants them cash after a 5-second interval. However, the program currently has a flaw wherein points and cash are being awarded simultaneously, rather than one after the other. I am seeking a solution to address this issue and ensure that points and cash are granted separately, as intended.

Here’s the code!

while Started.Value == true do

	Time.Value += 1

	if Time.Value > BestTime.Value then
		BestTime.Value = Time.Value
	end
	
	wait(5) do
		
		Folder2.Token.Value += 1
	end
end

[AustnBlox (Austin)]

You could just wait a few seconds before restarting code in the while loop:

while task.wait(5) do -- Waits 5 seconds before restarting code inside while loop
	Time.Value += 1 -- Adds 1 time every 5 seconds
end

[anmocha]

I apologize, what I’m looking for a code where no matter what is waiting (I.e. Token), it’ll give the seconds instead of waiting a additional 5 seconds just to get +1 time.

[AustnBlox (Austin)]

Could you elaborate more please I’m am a little confused.

[anmocha]

Okay, If a Player started a round. It’ll start giving time. But, the time will give once, and wait 5 seconds to give a Token until it repeats.

[AustnBlox (Austin)]

Ah ok. This may do the trick:

while Started.Value == true do
	Time.Value += 1

	if Time.Value > BestTime.Value then
		BestTime.Value = Time.Value
	end
	
	task.wait(5)
		
	Folder2.Token.Value += 1
end

[anmocha]

Thanks, but unfortunately. It didn’t work.

First, It’ll give time once, wait 5 seconds, give token, and repeat. (There’s a pause where it doesn’t give the time once, (Like every 1 second it’ll give time).

[AustnBlox (Austin)]

So every one second you want it to give you + 1 time?

[kittyPGR (KittyPlays)]

I am not sure what you want but this might be it

while Started.Value == true and task.wait(1) do

	Time.Value += 1

	if Time.Value > BestTime.Value then
		BestTime.Value = Time.Value
	end
	
	delaly(5, function()
         Folder2.Token.Value += 1
    end
end

[paetemc2 (Dragon_bloxy)]

Not quite sure if this is what you’re asking for, but here:

while Started.Value == true and task.wait(1) do
	Time.Value += 1

	if Time.Value > BestTime.Value then
		BestTime.Value = Time.Value
	end
	
	if Time.Value % 5 == 0 then
		Folder2.Token.Value += 1
    end
end

[Midnightific]

It’s best to not use wait() at all honestly. Also, wait() is deprecated, the correct statement is task.wait().

See this post here for more information:

Avoiding wait() and why

This is an adaptation of a Twitter thread I made a while ago. This is simply a better formatted and more fleshed out version. Let’s talk about wait(). Not wait(n) (although if you are using small n values to where it’d be barely distinguishable from wait(), you’re probably going to hit the same issues mentioned in this thread). We probably learned about wait() at first as the solution to “why are my infinite loops crashing me?”. It’s a super easy solution and it works! This starts a bad habit…

[Andrew900460]

I could be totally wrong here with interpreting your question, but I want to offer this to hopefully nudge you in the right direction.

In fact, @kittyPGR has already done the same thing. But it sounds like you want your main while loop to continue running even though you are still waiting for 5 seconds. You don’t want the waiting to halt the while loop.

For that, you would need to create a new coroutine to run that code seperately from the while loop.
Like:

task.delay(5, function()
– Stuff to do after 5 seconds
end)

But I would refer to @kittyPGR 's code for what your code should look like. They also added in a “wait” for one second as well. So keep that in mind.

Also, if you don’t want to your “Token += 1” code to always happen after 1 second, you would also need to put it within another if statement, but I don’t know if the Time.Value > BestTime.Value is where you would want to put that. But I’m just saying in the event another issue arrises on your end.

[Navillion (Nav)]

The issue is you increment time, wait 5 seconds, increment token and then immediately go back to time again because the loop ends. Just add another wait(5) after Folder2.Token.Value += 1