Delaying events?

[Tsun]

What's the easiest way to delay an event for X amount of time?

Random example; when Active1 collides with Active2, 5 seconds later the game ends.

I'm currently using the help of values which degrade over time, but I'm starting to have a very inconvenient amount of "delayer" and "trigger" counters so I'd like to know if there's a better way to do it.

I need these for various reasons, but the main reason seems to be that the system takes in multiple events at a single button press.
For example, these two events would happen at a single push of space bar:

-GV1 = 1
-Upon pressing Space
:Set GV1 to 2

-GV1 = 2
-Upon pressing space
:Set GV1 to 3

Note though that those actually don't happen at once but it happens sometimes with other events. Also I have other uses for delays too.

[LB]

MMF2's "Restrict Actions" event can be used for exact times, but there are other alternatives (such as the WaitFor object) if you need to to it by number of frames.

For the Restrict Actions method to work, you need to take into account that it will trigger the first time and then wait the time you specify before running again. It's similar to a cooldown for guns almost. You could utilize this behavior to end the game on the second trigger.

[Tsun]

Ahh I looked for something everywhere but I didn't think it could be in the conditions. It's not exactly what I need but it should still be a huge help, I'll check the WaitFor object too.
Thanks.

[Avantar]

Not sure if this will be of any help: There are two extensions: One is called Time X and the other Timer Object. I know TimeX can handle any number of timers and control them individually or even pause them.
I haven't really tried any of them; since triggered counters is fine for the limited things I do on MMF. :-)

[LB]

There's also the Function Egg Timer