Variable issue

Greetings mortals and mortalmen...

Well in my RTS game, I have a gas vent.
When the player touches that gas vent it begins building
After an alarm runs out, it turns into a building

When the gas vent is created, the variable stage = 1
When the player touches the gas vent, it goes into stage = 2 and sets an alarm
When this alarm runs out, the stage = 3 and the sprite turns into a built building.

Problem: The alarm doesn't seem to run out and when I test it on debug mode, it says the variable didn't change.

Request code if you want it

Joe

Yeah, I'll need some code. For all events involved.

Obj_Gas

Create event:

Code:

stage = 1
image_speed = 0.2

Alarm 0:

Code:

global.fuel = global.fuel + 100;
instance_create (self.x + 32,self.y + 48,Obj_Workerbot);
working = 0;

Alarm 1

Code:

instance_create (x+32,y+48,Obj_Workerbot)
stage = 3

Step

Code:

if stage = 2
{
    alarm[1] = 50
    sprite_index = Spr_Resource_Building_Being_Built;
    image_index=0;
    image_speed=1;
}
if stage = 3
{
    sprite_index = Spr_Resource_Building
    image_index=0;
    image_speed=1;
}

Collision with Obj_Workerbot

Code:

if stage = 1
{
    stage = 2
}
if stage = 3
{
    if (place_empty(self.x+32,self.y+48))
    {
        if working = 0
        {
            alarm[0] = 100
            working = 1
            with (other) instance_destroy();
            instance_create (self.x + 16,self.y,Obj_Making)
        }
    }
}

When checking if stage = 2, add and alarm[1] < 1.
You're constantly setting alarm[1] to 50.