Spawn Rate of Named Mobs on Hunter/Forager Cycle

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Originally Posted by mwatt [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Seems to me that if initial $random_result value were always garuanteed to be between 1 and 100 inclusive, and if that value really was random with that 1 to 100 range over time, then yeah, you'd get a pop 10% of the time.

However, the code simply checks for greater to or equal to 90 and less than or equal to 100. Are you certain that the pre-check value of $random_result always falls between 1 and 100 inclusive? Because if not, you aren't getting 10% out of this. Also if the distribution is not really random, you aren't getting 10% out of this.

Locs and names have been classified to protect the identity of the npcs involved.

#nilbog
#forager cycle

sub EVENT_SPAWN {
quest::settimer("forage",5);
}

my $forager = classified;
my @aRareID = (classified);

sub EVENT_TIMER 
{

my $randomrare = quest::ChooseRandom(@aRareID);
my $random_result = 0;
my $random_area = 0;
my $random_x = 0;
my $random_y = 0;

if($timer eq "forage") {
$random_result = int(rand(100));
$random_area = int(rand(classified));
$random_x = int(rand(classified));
$random_y = int(rand(classified));

    quest::stoptimer("forage");
if (($random_area >=0) && ($random_area<=60)) {
    if(($random_result>=0) && ($random_result<90)){
    quest::spawn2($forager,classified);
    }elsif(($random_result>=90) && ($random_result<=100)){
    quest::spawn2($randomrare,classified);
    }
    }
elsif (($random_area >60) && ($random_area<=100)) {
    if(($random_result>=0) && ($random_result<90)){
    quest::spawn2($forager,classified);
    }elsif(($random_result>=90) && ($random_result<=100)){
    quest::spawn2($randomrare,classified);
    }
}
}
}

sub EVENT_SIGNAL {

if ($entity_list->GetMobByNpcTypeID($forager)) {
    return 1;
}
foreach $rareID (@aRareID) 
{
    if ($entity_list->GetMobByNpcTypeID($rareID)) {
        return 1;
    }
}
quest::settimer("forage", 1);
}

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