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[Wildeblood]

...on for 1/2 second then off for one second. I can do this with one timer, but it involves some kind of modulo arithmetic or somethin'?

I would have though just a boolean switch would have been sufficient: if the timer is on a 0.5 second repeat, flipping the boolean value would allow you to switch the effect on and off.

Yeah, anyway Moving right along...

Could I please get a definitive answer to the (mysterious to me) question of if, and when, one needs to clean up timers in world-scripts?

this.shipDied = this.reset = this.someoneLookedAtMeFunny = function () { /* code to stop and delete timers */ }

Using shipDied() should be sufficient for ship-scripts(?), but in world-scripts this seems to have been subject to changing fashions over the years.

Addendum: it says here (https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Oolit ... onstructor), "You should use entityDestroyed in ship scripts to clean up timers." But, it makes no mention of world-scripts.