How can I make "Random" a bit less "random"

DrGlickert

So in my bubble shooter game I have 7 different colored balls, and an additional "power" ball that breaks through everything, so technically 8 balls.

I have a random ball generator that generates random numbers which correspond to different balls. Random(1,8) makes the "Power" ball come up 1/8 times. Ideally I'd like the "Power" ball to come up about 8-10% of the time. So a little less than 1/8.

Any ideas on how to make the "Power ball" come up a little less frequently?

I was doing Random (1,15), where 1/8 was blue, 2/9 was red, 3/10 was green, etc. However, I've changed some rules and an no longer do this. Any ideas?

oberning

you could use timers

Aquarius

maybe some RITALIN?

Valan

Make the normals balls be random. Setup a counter for the power ball. Make a rule so that every 8 times the ball changes it becomes the power ball. The count itself could random so it brings up a power ball the 7th or 9th time.
Hope this helps.

b2iscool

The way i would do it is have two attributes the random and the powerup so you would change your attribute (random) to a random number (1,8) when its 8 and powerup attribute 1 then change powerup attribute to 0 and spawn the "powerball" otherwise change mystery to 1 and change random attribute to random(1,7) so every other time its 8 you would get the powerball otherwise you would just get a different ball...make sense?