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Not sure why this isn't working. Basically, I want one of two items to appear with a variable (LUCK) to influence the drop. Anyone see where I went wrong? I tried it as both a link script and global.

IF %LUCK = 1 THEN
BEGIN
%RAND := 1D100
IF %RAND > 0 THEN
IF %RAND < 50 THEN
$ITEMSTATE1 := 1 ELSE
$ITEMSTATE2 := 1
END

I do. In the previous pages, %LUCK is defined a number (1-4) and I wanted it to have a direct influence on the %RAND item drop, so resetting it would kind of ruin my idea unless that's the only way to make it work. I planned on stacking the script with each point of %LUCK increasing the chances for the better of two items. The number "50" was just a test number.

Makes sense. I feel like redundancy wouldn't break the whole link though... but this is my first experience with scripting.

That's what I thought too, but when testing it at least I had to add the > 0 back in because unset variables are treated like they're at zero by default.

An at any rate there's something else I can't figure out causing this not to work, even when removing it from global and breaking it down into sections of link and page scripts.

ITEMSTATE2 is always fine but ITEMSTATE1 ignored any scripting as far as I can tell. But then again there's a reason I hate using the default inventory system at all.

Moving it to the global page makes it work. Now I'm running into issues with the items themselves, but I suppose progress has been made lol. Thanks. Time to go read up on the item articles. Hope you enjoyed my working title.

IF %LUCK = 1 THEN
BEGIN
%RAND := 1D100
IF %RAND > 0 THEN
BEGIN
IF %RAND < 50 THEN
BEGIN
$ITEMSTATE1 := 1
END
END
ELSE
$ITEMSTATE2 := 1
END

Try that maybe?

Thanks. It works!

This makes me mad. All those BEGINS and ENDS might as well be completely random, there'd be about the same chance of figuring out how to do this *eventually*.

There, there Mizal. There, there.