Random Encounters

[Corpheous]

I'm trying to come up with a way to have random encounters of different types. Based on what the random number is, a different type (out of 5) of encounter occurs. I'm getting stuck and can't figure out how to code it though, here's what I've got...

mt_srand();	

$enc_total = $enc_monster + $enc_rare + $enc_ultrarare + $enc_trap + $enc_treasure;
$enc_type = mt_rand(1, $enc_total);

Where do I go from here? 🙁

BTW, $enc_total doesn't always add up to anything in particular but in most cases it will add up to 100.

[weekender]

hmm problem

$types = array("enc_monster", "enc_rare", "enc_ultrarare", "enc_trap", "enc_treasure");
$values = array(18, 22, 25, 15, 20);

$runningtotal = 0;
for($count=0; $count<5; $count++)
{
$runningtotal = $runningtotal + $values[$count];
if($enc_type <= $runningtotal){
echo "This random is a " . $types[$count];
break;
}
}

ok what this does is puts the types and the values (ie numbers of each type into arrays - indexed by number (ie 1 to 4)

then it loops through, each time adding the number of the next type to running total. So with the above values it would run through 18, 40 (ie 18+22), 65 (ie 18+22+25) etc etc

when the random number is less than or equal to this, it outputs the type and breaks the loop.

let me know if that helps - or doesn't!!!

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