I need help with counters

[Ganryu]

Counters have fixed values. This means that I can access a specific counter in the frame even if it is just an instance of another counter.

Theoretically when you use: At start of game, set CounterB to 5 that will set ALL counters called CounterB to 4.

The use of the fixed value would then be to address a specific one of these counters and only set the value of THAT one to 4. However, there seems to be no actual system behind the fixed values, so how do i do it?

I could do it the clumsy way and have an invisible object overlapping the specific counter and then set
*At start of game
*If InvisibleObject is overlapping counter
-Set counter to 4

But that looks clumsy

[Random]

Well first of all, don't use fixed values like that. They can change arbitrarily later. I once relied on them for a game - bad idea

This is indeed quite a problem with MMF - there is no instance inspector or any way to set up variables of instances in the frame editor (MMF3 *hinthint*).

So a workaround, it is.
Solution 1: Clone the counters, so each counter is a new "type", instead of duplicates/instances.
Solution 2: The clumsy way. I used that in a game once, where I had treasure chests for the player to open - and I wrote that script that whatever was overlapping them at start would be "put inside" (stored in the variables). So in the frame editor I'd just put everything that goes inside on top of the chest. Depending on what you want to set it to, you could have +2 and -2 objects that add or subtract to the counter when they overlap it.
Solution 3: Create some sort of level editor that lets you set up your objects and stores the level in a file and loads everything back from there as well. Note that this is a lot of work.