Randomize, yet Increase odds

[Hylian]

Is there away to randomize between 0 and 1, yet increase the chances of getting a 1 more times than a 0, say by a 75% chance rather than the 50% chance between the 2 items..? (50% chance is standard I guess because you have 2 items so, you have a 1:2 ratio)

[nemonoman]

what you want to do, in effect, is create a die with a certain number of sides

use something like

$desiredPercentChance=0.75; //you can change this number to whatever you want

$theodds=round(1/(1-$desiredPercentChance
));

if(rand(1,$theodds)==1) {echo "you lost";}
else {echo "you won";}

[Hylian]

well this is for an rpg system for my forums...and basically what happens is the following:

User sets percent ratio for 5 actions (for denfencive manuvers)
Physical Attack
Physical Defence
Magic Attack
Magic Defence
Evade
where the total of all the percentages for the 5 = 100%

based on the percentage, the server (using randomizing) decides the appropriate action. So what I'm asking, is how to do what you did for 5 options instead of 2, where you take the value for the actions into consideration in what happens to the fighter

[Hylian]

Moderator please ban this guy...he has only 10 posts and in the majority of them he's just splurting out immature comments and insults.

[phppenishedpunk]

ALL THESE MODERATORS CANT SPEAK ENGLISH YOULL HAVE TO TELL THEM IN SPANISH

[Hylian]

lol...another ignorant person to get banned! Keep em comming 🙂

[Hylian]

When I asked for help I didn't ask for ignorant comments. You 2 losers have no idea what the hell this board is for so please get off, or a moderator will just bann you. Now that's the end of this as I'm ignoring you now :p

[nemonoman]

Instead of the IF construction, you probably want a SWITCH:

switch(rand(1,$theodds)) {

case 1:
echo 'you got case 1';
break;

case 2:
echo 'you got case 2';
break;

//etc.

default:
echo 'you didn't get any of the specified cases';

}

don't forget to add 'break;' after each case

Ignore malicious posters.

[Hylian]

dood! thx Man! And here I thought I'd have to do a miliion if functions inside eachother! I totally forgot about switch case...and it's sitting right infront of me in my cookie file which I kept looking at last night !

[suntra]

Originally posted by phppenishedpunk
ALL THESE MODERATORS CANT SPEAK ENGLISH YOULL HAVE TO TELL THEM IN SPANISH

No problema : ¡ hablo español !

Tú, ¿ eres capaz de hablar español ?