Add a timed wait or pause action to timer blocks

Benjamin layle shared this feedback ago

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I have seen this frustration echoed a large number of times that we would like to utilize all of the 9 toolbars available for a timer block rather than needing 10 timer blocks that activate eachother in sequence and take up a large amount of room inside the ship. The only other option to achieve this in game is using a programmable block or scripting but the barrier to entry for scripting is fairly high to people who are not coding-minded so this would make things far more accessible. Overall, controlling functions or having sequences of actions would be immensely improved by the ability to add a timed wait action so that the timer block pauses before taking the next action. Otherwise the block doesnt really live up to the name "Timer Block" if you are unable to time actions without needing 10 of them.

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Benjamin layle ●

To lay out the points of my argument more concisely:

The Timer block already has a delay function at the beginning so it would not be too hard to add that in as an action you can put into the slots between other actions to delay their timing.
Currently timer blocks have to 81 slots for actions but all of these slots are activated within milliseconds of each other which doesn't work for a lot of creations so you end up only using a few slots with 5-15 timer blocks acting in sequence for any remotely complex sequence of actions.
-This is a massive resource cost to have to build so many timer blocks
-This is also a large amount of space usage / additional unnecessary mass
while it can be done with scripting, it requires that scripting is enabled on the server you are playing on not to mention that the barrier to entry for people who aren't coding-minded is very high.
-This would also make things very accessible to those people who cant do coding but still want complex block actions without 15 timer blocks.
The name "Timer Block" Implies that actions can be timed to when you want them to happen in order but the current timer block doesn't live up to that name since actions happen almost simultaneously

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Benjamin layle ●

As someone brought up in the official server this doesnt even need to be a change to timer blocks themselves if they even just added a "Sequencer" block to do something like this it would help immensly

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Deapri Sevous ●

A delay component on the toolbar should be doable so long as it respects the normal timer block increment limits.

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