Is adding with delta for per second systems bad practice?

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Godot Version

4.4

Question

The title might be a little confusing but I was curious if it’s bad practice to make per second systems with delta. Basically, let’s say I want every second to reduce stamina by 10, would doing stamina -= delta * 10 cause problems?

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It’s not gonna affect your performance too much if you’re worried about that.
But the better option might be to use a Timer instead and add stamina on the timeout signal.

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But if I were to use it per frame (which would make sense for stamina in a case where the player is running), would using delta instead be better? So delta per frame but timer if it’s specifically gonna be per second?

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If you need to use it per frame, then use it per frame. Nothing wrong with that. Adding numbers is peanuts for the CPU.
If you’re worried about performance - measure first before you try to optimize anything.