Efficient way of distributing items

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pgimeno
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Re: Efficient way of distributing items

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It's actually the OP who posted an example that used accumulated weights. I think milon just translated that code so that the same weights came from a table instead of a chain of if's. From that point of view, the choice of wording, "rarity", wasn't too good.
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Re: Efficient way of distributing items

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milon wrote: Thu Aug 04, 2022 6:01 pm. That's the general idea behind weighted randoms. Does that help clarify?
Yeah, that makes it clearer.
The risk I took was calculated,
but man, am I bad at math.

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