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Subj : help needed
To   : Dennis Collins
From : Leonard Erickson
Date : Wed Oct 11 2000 05:47 pm

 -=> Quoting Dennis Collins to Leonard Erickson <=-

 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

 DC> 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.

 DC> if the player uses weapon 1 which has for example an accuracy of 3%
 DC> then if he uses it 100 times then he will randomly hit the target only
 DC> 3 times,

Actually, with a 3% chance to hit on *one* attempt, the chances to hit
on 100 attempts isn't necessarily 3 hits.

 DC> if the player uses another weapon with an accuracy of 38%
 DC> and plays 100 times again he would hit the target 38 times, however
 DC> if he only plays 50 turns then he will only achive a hit 19 times. 

Well, something like the code sample I included should do the trick.




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