randum triger not working

[CAT_101st]

So this is what I am doing I place units on the map. Name them randum 1- whetever. set time hold to 23h. Go to trigers new name it Col 1, Col 2 new condition randum 5%, Col 3 new actavate groop. I do this for 17 groops and each time a start up the sever all 17 groops show up 100% of the time. Just trying to get the AA units to apear in randum locations to make the mission more replayable. I read the GUI manual and it apearis that I have placed every thing proper.

Am I doing somthing wrong or is this a bug? I would thing that with a 5% almost nuthing would show up.

[CAT_101st]

I did another test setting to 1% every thing showes up aging but just takes longer for it to happen. It is acting like it is runing a continue randum chance till it showes up. I want it to make a one time only randum chance and stop there. I belive this is how it is supose to work, Right.

[Speed]

Random conditions will ONLY work with the only trigger precondition that is excuted only once- the MISSION START precondition. Otherwise, once all the other conditions are fulfilled, the trigger will keep being evaluated till the random becomes true. So if you want a few hundred random events in a mission (as I did with my lastest mission I have yet to release) you must set hundreds of separate flags at mission start.

 

So for a random group, you do:

[MISSION START]->[ RANDOM(XX)]-> [Activate group]

 

If you want an event to be randomly started some other time in the mission, you do:

 

[MISSION START]-> [RANDOM(XX)]-> [sET FLAG(A)]

 

and then later when you want the random event to happen:

 

[ONCE]-> [FLAG(A) is TRUE + other conditions]-> [DO EVENT]

Edited August 31, 2010 by Speed

[CAT_101st]

ok thanks I will give the mission start a try and see how that works.

 

Thanks

[CAT_101st]

triggers are working now thanks