Ok that helped allot ty. now I must be thinking about this all wrong. I'm trying to get my fire to go twice as fast and stay that way till death. but I think it its working for one shot and then the original spawn time is taking back over. any pointers how to fix this would be great I have searched all demos that I could fine but nothing is showing what I am trying to accomplish. my thought is to have the first fire rate only be checked once. this way it wont revert back once power up is picked up. no idea how to do this.