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Hello, I am trying to build a dungeon and have encountered that 15 seems to be the maximal delay for a "Set" command, resulting in a 2.5-second delay. Is it possible to enhance this? I know it can be done with teleporting apples, I was just wondering if this could be directly?

That doesn't sound right at all. I haven't explored the delays in CSBWin very much, but you should be able to go much higher than that. Monster generators can have delays of many minutes, I don't see why other actuators should have such a low limit.

Are the delays specified in hex?

It is true that monster generators can have very long delays, but this seems not possible for "set" commands. CSBuild even told me once to "enter an integer between 0 and 15". Meanwhile, I did achieve the desired effect by teleporting an apple around, so I ask mainly of curiosity.

*You can use a cascade of AND/Or gates, each with a delay of 15.

*You could use two counters on the same tile, with delay of 15. One targets the tile they are in, sending a close msg as long as it didn't reach the value of 0.
The other will only activates once, when reaching 0, and will send the msg to the desired target. This would work once, however.

* Finally, you could create a DSA with the following code:

M15SA

Replace 15 with the desired delay.
The DSA would use parameter A to know which tile to target, so put the DSA in your dungeon, edit it, and browse a target for it.
The pressure pad needs to aim to the DSA, of course.

I remember that some of the timed mechanisms in CSB used lost of wall decorations to target each other in a row so perhaps it really is that limited. Weird.

It's always been that limited, as you said CSB uses delayes as zyx describes.

Trantor, the other siggestions are more elegant, but the delays in a row are what you could copy directly from CSB if you are unsure