I have one trigger that has its conditions meet every other trigger and it messes up the wait time for all of them. here is the collider and one example of something being messed up by it:

collider
CP commands at least 1 men
CP commands at most 24 defilers

wait 15000 msecond
create 1 defiler at 'p1grab' for CP
preserve

example
CP commands at least 1 alexei
CP brings at least 1 scout to 'build zone'

kill 1 scout at anywhere for CP
create 3 ghosts at 'characterfollow' for CP
wait 3500 msecond <---------------------------------gets messed up because of other wait
remove all ghosts for CP
preserve

I know WHY it's happeneing, it's the how. anyone know a way I can create a repeating condition that won't collide with other waits?

Use Hyper triggers and death counts

Check the wiki for both.

Hyper triggers makes the triggers run at 12 (really every 84 ms) times per real second on fastest, so if you want a "wait 15000", you need to convert into triggers. Since you want 15000 ms, and you have 1 trigger = 84 ms, divide by 84 to get 178.5 or 179 triggers. Now, you can set up a death count to start the "timer".

There are two ways to do this. You can count up, or count down. Personally, I think counting down is best, but ymmv. To count down, put a condition in your trigger for 0 deaths of some unit, and in the action, set that to some value (like 179 for 15 seconds). Have a second trigger which always subtracts 1 from that death.

To count up, it's just the opposite. Put a condition in the trigger for 179 deaths of some unit, and in the action, set it to 0. Have a second trigger which always adds 1 to that death (you can put a cap on it if you want, but there's not much reason.)

In both your triggers, you'll need quite a few to get them to work properly. Alas, this is starcraft.

collider
CP commands at least 1 men
CP commands at most 24 defilers
CP deaths unit1 exactly 0

set deaths unit1 179
set deaths unit2 1
-----------------------------------------

CP deaths unit1 exactly 0
CP deaths unit2 exactly 1

create 1 defiler at 'p1grab' for CP
set deaths unit2 0


example
CP commands at least 1 alexei
CP brings at least 1 scout to 'build zone'
CP deaths unit3 exactly 0

kill 1 scout at anywhere for CP
create 3 ghosts at 'characterfollow' for CP
set deaths unit3 42
---------------------------------------------

CP deaths unit3 exactly 0

remove all ghosts for CP


Note you can only use that second trigger for the second one if you only control ghosts at that time (for 3500 seconds). You could technically set the CP deaths unit3 exactly 1, and then it would only fire once, but you would only have the ghosts for 3.4 seconds or so, not 3.5.

You can only have one wait run at a time per player, so in your case the waits are blocking eachother, so one is going, then the other, and they continue to take turns like this.

You will want to either replace one, or both waits with a Death Counter in order to get rid of the wait blocks, Hyper Triggers are not needed in order to use Death Counts, but they make them more precise than they would be otherwise.

a big thank you very much to both of you, death counts help mucho