Subj : help needed
To   : Leonard Erickson
From : Dennis Collins
Date : Thu Oct 12 2000 08:38 am

 LE> DC> I am working on a game currently and have come to a
 LE> DC> section that is causing me a small amount of
 LE> DC> grief......  the routine has to return a boolean based
 LE> DC> on a percentage ie TRUE = hit, FALSE = miss, and there
 LE> DC> weapons used.  example: weapon 1 has 1% chance of
 LE> DC> hitting target weapon 2 has 13% chance of hitting
 LE> DC> target etc weapon 10

thanks for the assist.

 LE> I'm not entirely clear what you want to routine to *do*.
 LE> Yes, I understand that you want it to return true or false.
 LE> What I'm *not* clear on is how it is supposed to *do* that.

if the player uses weapon 1 which has for example an accuracy of 3% then if he
uses it 100 times then he will randomly hit the target only 3 times, if the 
player uses another weapon with an accuracy of 38% and plays 100 times again 
he would hit the target 38 times, however if he only plays 50 turns then he 
will only achive a hit 19 times.

cheers

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