I'm sure I'm doing something simple and stupid here.

I needed to display a message, so I copied the line
and pasted it elsewhere inside a triggered event, and all I changed was the string.

I get an error when the trigger is activated saying:

It seems to be suggesting that the string "player" is nil. what should it be equal to?

Fixed now, realised I never actually set player to anything.

I have another issue, and I don't think its really worth a second thread. This one I have no Idea what's wrong. The text only appears for what appears to be a single frame when it should be 5 seconds.

I'd hate to make a triple post, but its been a few months and I've finally resumed work on this and im being held back by this issue in particular. Any help?

Try using a timer instead.

Things like this will soon become obvious to me. It works now, all I had to do was Self:ResetMessageTimer().