Trigger problem

i have a vote box but
how do i get around ties? right now i have conditions like

Box1 greater than box 2
box1 greater than box 3

fire easy triggers

if they tied, the triggers wont fire right?

so how do i get around it?

If you're confident that your conditionals cover all possible situations in which a vote is uneven, you should just put a "skip remaining actions" inside each of them and put the actions for a tie after them.

Otherwise, you will need to come up with conditionals that determine whether a tie has ocurred.


Incidentally, the way I would do it is like this:

Have all the vote totals represented by an integer array (Total[]), and have all the players' choices represented by a different integer array (Vote[]). Meanwhile, have the maximum votes received represented by an integer variable (MaxVotes).

Start MaxVotes, Vote[] and Total[] with values all set to zero. Then when a player votes, change Vote[index of voting player] to the index of the option they voted for.

When voting is over, step through the Votes[] array with a "For A" loop and for each vote, add one to Total[Vote[integer A]]. Then step through the Total[] array with another "For A" loop and for each option, if Total[integer A] is greater than MaxVotes, set MaxVotes to Total[integer A].

Now you don't yet know who got the most votes, but you know how many votes the winner(s) received. At this point, you can run through the Total[] array one more time to check how many totals are equal to MaxVotes, and if there are more than one, call for a tiebreaker. Or if you are going to allow ties, you could simply run the results for each Total[] that equals MaxVotes.


Anyway. That was a bit ridiculous... Hope you can make sense of it! Good hunting.

*faints*

Er. Sorry, maybe I overdid that a bit...

How many possible choices do the players have? If it's only 2 or 3 then basically everything I said is completely unnecessary... I was thinking for a system that would allow players to vote for like 20 different items or something.

Anyway if it was only 3, you could make a condition like this:

OR (any conditions are true)
-----Conditions:
-----------Box1 = Box2 AND Box1 > Box3
-----------Box2 = Box3 AND Box2 > Box1
-----------Box1 = Box3 AND Box1 > Box2

And it would fire whenever there was a tie for winner.

its 4 choices

easy
normal
gosu
extreme

In that case it's a leetle harder.

OR (any conditions are true)
-----Conditions:
-----------Box1 = Box2 AND Box1 > Box3 AND Box1 > Box4
-----------Box1 = Box3 AND Box1 > Box2 AND Box1 > Box4
-----------Box1 = Box4 AND Box1 > Box2 AND Box1 > Box3
-----------Box2 = Box3 AND Box2 > Box1 AND Box2 > Box4
-----------Box2 = Box4 AND Box2 > Box1 AND Box2 > Box3
-----------Box3 = Box4 AND Box3 > Box1 AND Box3 > Box2

That should work though.

this is for each seperate trig right? or is it all one big one?

Or add "Is greater than or equal to to some of them...

*bump*.
I'm trying to do the same thing as shadow(ps). cant get the damn thing to work right no matter what i do. I've tried all different configurations, including the one that shadow mentioned in the first post of this thread. In that example, *supposing there are 3 difficulty levels, one if/than/else for each one*, where would the following go in that trigger?



Plz help, this is one of the last things I need to get working in my map...

-Huh

Anyone? Hate to bump with nothing else to add, but I'm desperate to get this trigger working right before the days end.

-Huh

I have voting on the difficulty on my map that i made, but I went the easy way out, in case of a tie, the harder difficulty is selected :D

look, what i did was just make a trigger for each difficulty. gosu is greater than easy gosu is greater than normal, gosu is greater than extreme. then i changed it around for the next difficulty. in case of a tie, i just made a variable thats set after the votes are done and the difficulty is selected. i made a seperate trigger that had the conditions, variable easy normal gosu extreme all equal false, then run normal triggers. thats all i did and it works like a charm.