Ok... scripting problems

[chickens1127]

I'm SO stupid with coding, so bear with me.

I am playing around with building a simulator.

1. Real stupid: To make monet I create a variable and name it money, correct?
2. How the game will work (maybe) is you have a ship and you sim month to month. Each month, a pop-up comes up telling you how many prizes (merchant ships) you have taken and how much there worth. I need some type of code that each month it runs a script that roles like a computerized dice (user dosen't see it- computer calculates it), so that 0 or 1 means you get 0 prizes, 2,3,4 you get 1, and 5 and 6 for 2 prizes. I would also like a way (if possible) that it repeats it multiple times for the amount of ships you own, given you make a variable called ship to remember that.

... more to come

[Mystery]

Yes, to increase and decrease your money, you need to create a variable, and name it for example money

roles like a computerized dice

0 or 1 means you get 0 prizes, 2,3,4 you get 1, and 5 and 6 for 2 prizes.

Ummm Chickens, does this computerized die have 7 sides (one with 0 on it additionally)?
If you want a die with 6 sides, you might want to re-consider when the player gets what

For a 6-sided die and money (you need to create the variables roll and money):

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randomize
roll=Int(Rnd * 6) + 1
if roll=1 Then money=money
if roll>=2 and roll<=4 Then money=money+1
if roll>=5 Then money=money+2

[Lyberodoggy]

Chickens, if you read my articles on BbB, you will find ways to solve problems like these. Now, let me fix mystery's code:
create a variable named ships and store there the number of the ships of the player

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For i=1 to ships
randomize
roll=Int(Rnd * 6) + 1
loot=0
if roll>=2 AND roll<=4 Then loot=1
if roll>=5 Then loot=2
money=money+loot
next


That added the loop for each ship and made the code more compact

[chickens1127]

Great! But...





3. Then, I need a code very similar to the rolling thingy, which is a 6 sided dice that roles and if you roll a 1 or a 2 a ship is minused (it was captured) but every other number is safe. This code also gets repeated for all the ships you have. This would be the same as before, but would you need to make a new roll variable?

[Lyberodoggy]

no, use the same code and change the parts you need

[Mystery]

Hehe, thanks Doggy
I never pretended to be good with scripting

[Lyberodoggy]

Everyone's good. As long as the script works it's good. Just when you create scripts for others, it's also good to make them more readable to human eye, so that the reciever will learn from it

[Mystery]

Lol, my scripts work, but must look awful