"Buildism warning: This game is using an unsupported scripting technique..."

[Duck]

How are we meant to make things with delays if we can't use sleep?

Notice "in an event handler".

"How am I meant to put a ten second delay in my function if I can't use sleep?" Happy?

If said function is an event handler (callback), then use something like gamecheduleTask()

The preferred way is by using os.time(). It avoids the requirement of an extra thread.

[lua]
delay = 3 --3 seconds

lastCalled = os.time()
function doSomething()
if os.time() - lastCalled < delay then return end
--do stuff
lastCalled = os.time()
end
[/lua]

But doesn't that mean people could cheat / break a game by messing about with their clock