How do I reduce player's speed when overlaping an object ?

The problem is easy, but I can't find a simple way to solve it

How can I reduce player's speed when is overlapping an object and regain it's original speed when is not overlapping that object ?

These are my events:

The problem is that the second event (player is not overlapping stairs) is executed at the very start and increases player's movement speed.

Is your player moving at a constant speed before it overlaps? If so, then just have a variable that is called max_speed and when not overlapping, set player speed to variable.

Why do not you simply indicates his speed to the value of original speed?

If you are not on the ladder, his speed will always be one.

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Thanks... Since the player has different speeds, I will use a global variable to store and restore it ... However isn't there a better/cleaner method to do this ? The game will be for mobiles so I want to have my game as clean/optimised as possible

(player is not overlapping stairs) Is not a sub-event or a called function to be triggered when asked for, thats why it is starting on start of layout.

(player is not overlapping stairs) Is not a sub-event or a called function to be triggered when asked for, thats why it is starting on start of layout.

Thanks, I figured and fixed that using a global variable for the normal speed ... I will rephrase the question: Is this (the code from the first post) the way to reduce player's speed when overlaping an object or is there a better way (another events) ?

Compare to my normal skills I think this way would be OK, or maybe you could use player position instead, find the coordinates of where the stairs are located, for example starts at x 100 and ends at x 200, so when player position is between X1 and X2, reduce speed, Else, set speed to normal. I actually do not know if this would work but theoretically it sounds ok, also it would help performance since it is not a collision detection event. And if there are any better ways for this to be done, I currently do not know them