Loop cant fire event?

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#1

Hello everyone, so I recently encountered this error in scripts. My loop/repeat loop or while true loop cant fire a remote event and I can’t figure out why?

Here is the script:

local minutesVal = game.ReplicatedStorage.TimerVal.minutesVal
local secondsVal = game.ReplicatedStorage.TimerVal.secondsVal

local bought = game.ReplicatedStorage.ShopEvents.LocalButtons.invisibilityButton

repeat
	wait()
	if minutesVal.Value == 0 and secondsVal.Value == 0 then
		print("GOT YA")
		bought.Value = false
		game.ReplicatedStorage.ShopEvents.ClaimedFolder.Claimed:FireServer()
	end
until bought.Value == true

Is this error due to the lack of wait time? or something else?

#2

Maybe you need to put the bought variable in repeat until so it will se it everytime?

#3

no, I am not talking about the bought value but the fire server event

for some weird reasons it doesn’t want to fire the event :confused:

#4

You didnt understand me right It does The Function Everytime till the bought true But its false And it doesnt check everytime.

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#5

I would create a variable that waits for the event and then just refer to that variable has the event. If I didn’t explain myself correctly, take this as an example:

local ShopEvents = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("ShopEvents", 100)
local Remote = ShopEvents.ClaimedFolder:WaitForChild("Claimed", 100)

Remote:FireServer()
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#6

Let me try both of your solutions, I will be right back.

#7

The only thing I can think of is that the remote is getting over-used and is not working.

#8

Firing remotes too fast can cause remote over-use.

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#9

So should I do a while loop instead of a repeat?

#10

No. It will work just like the repeat loop.

#11

Try doing it so you only have to fire it once.
Anyways, I’ll have to go now. I might come back in a few hours and see if your problem has been solved, if it isn’t then I’ll try to help you.

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#12

A while ago I made a script that fired a RemoteEvent every RunService.Heartbeat, which fires faster than while wait() do, so I don’t really think it would be a problem.

#13

Doing that will lag the server.

#14

It really depends on the task you’re trying to perform, my server-side script barely arrived to 1% of activity.

#15

only my script isn’t server-sided, it’s a local script

#16

Yeah I know, what I mean is that firing many times an event won’t lag the server if the server doesn’t have to perform a tough task.

#17

if the bought value is set to true by default, and the minute or the secondval is not 0 then it will never fire that event, as it will just exit the loop.

game.ReplicatedStorage.ShopEvents.ClaimedFolder.Claimed.OnServerEvent:Connect(function()
 print("hello! it works.")
end)

this is the code i used to check it serversided and it worked with secondval and minuteval at 0, and bought at false.

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#18

I will try that right away. thx for your response.

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#19

I have one little problem I am using this for a timer, to check if its finished.

#20

does it count down on the server or the client?