[Axem]

'Elo, here's a diddly of a pickle for anyone. In a upcoming mini-campaign I'm working on, I want a portion of a mission to be random. Depending on some variable generated, I want a different ship to appear.

Eg:
If the variable is 1, send a Fenris
if 2, send an Orion
if 3, send a Deimos

However, Fred doesn't use if statements like that. Any ideas how to acheive something like this?

I give you a cooooookie...

[Singh]

assign a random number to a variable. Then set the arrival cue of the fenris to come in if the variable is 1; the orion to come in if its two and the Diemos to come in if its 3.

[Axem]

But how? rand only effects an existing number. I thought about going...

event name
- true
- +
-- rand
--- 1
--- 3
-- variable(0)

However, Fred won't let me use the + operator by itself.

[Spicious]

Try this:

when
-true
-modify-variable
--variable(0)
--rand
---1
---3

[Axem]

Yes... of course...

I blame Fred for hiding the modify variable sexp in the special group...