Re: [Rails-devel] Random Element

[Steve U. <ste...@gm...>]

Or possibly just write the random generator seed value to the save file.

Steve Undy
st...@ro...


On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Justin Rebelo <jus...@gm...>wrote:

> Rails randomizes seating order and then creates the game with the
> specified order. I would think it could similarly randomly determine
> any sort of value (such as which company was selected) and then write
> only the result of that to the game log. So when played back it would
> just be (in human terms) "Company X was chosen for Private #5. Player
> 3 takes Private #5 and 20% of Company X", for instance.
>
> On 3/24/11, Scott Petersen <sc...@re...> wrote:
> > Would there be any way for me to implement a random element into a game
> > supported by Rails?  I'm thinking I would like to have the last Private
> > Company be a randomly selected 20% share.  Could Rails have a function
> that
> > first determines whether this company has been determined and if not,
> select
> > one at random?
> >
> > I know Rails plays out the game each time a save is loaded, so perhaps it
> > would not be able to deal with this.  One of my main design goals for my
> > prototype is to implement it in Rails, so I don't want to introduce
> > something that is impossible to implement given the Rails architecture.
>  I
> > will manually select this for playtesting via the XML files.
> >
>
>
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