timer event problem

If I make a script with a llSetTimer function and a timer() event, sometimes when i use it, the timer goes up right away, but it is set to go at 30 seconds or something. Please help me fix this problem, it's an annoying one.

What do you mean by "the timer goes up right away"?
Is it triggered right away?

There's really not much debugging I can help you with without a snippet of the problimatic code. You can try looking for places in the script that call llSetTimerEvent, as that's the only way the timer interval can be changed; when you find all calls to llSetTimerEvent, you find all possible sources of the bug you're seeing.
==Chris

Bear in mind that the timerevent time-till-next-event is (I think) conserved between rezes, so if you "Take" the object after 28 seconds then rez it the next day, the timer will fire after 2 seconds.

Azelda

Yes, I mean that the timer is triggered right away, even though the code is set not to. For Example:

llSetTimerEvent(60);
}
}

timer()
{
llSay(0, "You took too long to respond, sorry. Please play again.";
llGiveMoney(player, 20);
state default;
}

What happens is that the first time I play the game, the timer is triggered instantly, but the second time it works fine. If noone plays the game for a few minutes, then plays, then the timer is triggered instantly the first time again, but the second game works fine.

You might not be shutting down the timer when a person stops playing the game. If you dont, it keeps on ticking.

Ah, I see you have a state change there. Ill run some tests on llSetTimerEvent and state-change persistance. That might be your problem.

If it is, just stick llSetTimerEvent(0) in state_exit of the state with the timer event.
==Chris

Sorry, I couldn't quite understand where you said to put the state_exit, could you give me an example?

state foo {
    state_exit() {
        llSetTimerEvent(0);
    }
}