Why should anything happen? If the player's far away from the blade, time_factor gets set to 0.1.

After that, it never gets set back to 1. But that's not the main problem: the main problem is that you haven't given us any info.

What do you expect to happen? Why do you expect that to happen? What other relevant code do you have? Why didn't you use the [code] tags? Stuff like that.

Cheers,

Jibb

EDIT: Good point, Xarthor. Blackchuck: If your program never crashed, then the player was never more than 1000 quants away from the blade.