Need Help with Player Damage

[122334shadow]

I am currently working on a game and I want to make the game make the player's health slowly go down when they step on a hazard until they step off of it.
Example: My player's health is represented in a Counter. I want to make it to where when they step on a fireball and the counter goes down by 5 every second or so until they step off of it. How can I program it to do so?

[Dynasoft]

Every 1 second
+player is overlapping fireball
-subtract 5 from counter

?

[DaveC]

it would be more reliable if you did it like this.

+Player is overlapping Fire
- Add 1 to Value X

+Value X = 30
- Subtract 1 from Health
- Set Value X to 0

what this does is it always adds 1 to value X (a kind of damage timer) while the player is overlapping the fire. When the value X reaches a certain limit (in this example 30) the damage is done to the player and the timer value is reset.

[Jaffob]

+Player is overlapping Fireball
+Restrict actions for 1 second:
===Subtract 5 from counter

That's the best way.

[Dynasoft]

Jaffob is right, that's much better than using "every".