My Timer is breaking

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1

Hello,
So I have a timer script:

for i = 300,0,-1 do
			
			if Values.ClocksCollected.Value == 7 then
				if i > 60 then
					if i <= 120 then
						i = 60
					else
						i -= 60
					end
				end
			end
			
			if Values.PanelsCollected.Value == 2 then
				if i > 60 then
					if i <= 120 then
						i = 60 
					else
						i -= 60
					end
				end
			end
			Status.Value = ToMS(i)
			wait(1)
		end

It works, but when I add / remove time from the clock, the time gets removed, but the timer breaks(the clock just shows how long is left and that’s it, it doesn’t count down!
I get no errors, why does this happen??

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2

how much does it show of what’s left, and what is ToMS?

3

ToMs converts it to Minutes and seconds, but that’s irrelevant.

The timer goes down, but then it gets stuck because I subtracted time, so how do I subtract time without it breaking??

4

Here is the full loop:

	for i = 300,0,-1 do
			
			if Values.ClocksCollected.Value == 7 then
				if i > 60 then
					if i <= 120 then
						i = 60
					else
						i -= 60
					end
				end
			end
			
			if Values.PanelsCollected.Value == 2 then
				if i > 60 then
					if i <= 120 then
						i = 60 
					else
						i -= 60
					end
				end
			end
			if i == 269 then
				TeleportDoge(Doge,Map)
				Values.KillFeed.Value = 'Doge is here!'
				game.ReplicatedStorage.Values.GameInProgress.Value = true
				wait(1)
			end
			
			if i == 60 then
				workspace.GameMusic:Stop()
				workspace.GameMusic.Looped = false
				Values.ExitsOpen.Value = true
				TopText.Value = 'EscapeOpen'
				Doge.Character.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 17
				Music(false,true,'EscapeMusic',false)
				OpenExits(Map,Doge)
			end
			
			
			if #PlayingPlayers <= 1 then
				break
			end
			
			if not table.find(PlayingPlayers,Doge) then
				break
			end
			Status.Value = ToMS(i)
			wait(1)
		end
5

i think the issue is that if you change the value of i, the engine thinks you have converted it into a constant, and therefore keeps it’s value. i wonder what would happen if you get a different value for I, but still keep I looping or changed to an infinite while loop.

6

Then how can I subtract 60 seconds from i, so that it continues going from the new value?

7

are you changing it manually or is it the code that changes it?
Also,

if i > 60 then
	if i <= 120 then
		i = 60
	else
		i -= 60
	end
end

is almost completely useless because when i > 120, it will subtract 60, after wich i < 120, after wich it will be set to 60, after wich it will be == 60, and not greater than 60.

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8

OMG LOL.

That’s my problem! I forgot to set the value to 0!
So the timer keeps getting set to 60, thanks so much!