Multiplied population?

>Date: Tue, 10 Jul 90 3:38:34 EST
>From: "Brent L. Woods" [email removed]
>Subject: (1402) Multiplied population?
>
>
>     Okay, friends and neighbors, it's dumb question time...
>
>     I recently decided to play around with random numbers in C (on my
>Amiga), so I decided to write a planet generator for Traveller (just
>like everyone else--come on, admit it).  I got a simple program working
>without too much trouble (right now, I'm having some trouble with
>generating planet names randomly, but that's no big deal), and a
>question occurred to me in the course of writing it.  Namely, just
>what's the population multiplier good for?  There are rules in the
>Referee's Manual on how to generate it, but I couldn't find anything
>in the text on what made it useful.
>
>     Could someone enlighten me on this one?

Population = PopM * Base Population, and PopM is an integer 1 <= PopM <= 9

Thus to get your PopM:

PopM = rand() % 9 + 1;

Thus if your UWP Population code was 8  (10's of Millions) and your PopM was 6
then your population would be 60 Million.

Hope this helps

Rob

 In Archive-Message-Number 1405, Rob Miracle writes:
 >
 >>Date: Tue, 10 Jul 90 3:38:34 EST
 >>From: [email removed] (Brent L. Woods)
 >>Subject: (1402) Multiplied population?
 >>
 >>
 >>     Okay, friends and neighbors, it's dumb question time...
 >>
 >>generating planet names randomly, but that's no big deal), and a
 >>question occurred to me in the course of writing it.  Namely, just
 >>what's the population multiplier good for?
 >
 >Population = PopM * Base Population, and PopM is an integer 1 <= PopM <= 9
 >
 >Thus to get your PopM:
 >
 >PopM = rand() % 9 + 1;
 >
 >Thus if your UWP Population code was 8  (10's of Millions) and your PopM was 6
 >then your population would be 60 Million.

     Ummm...okay.  I wrote a little function that generates a random
number from 1 to any positive non-zero integer (I call the function
die()), so I use the rules that were in the Referee's Manual.  Namely:

          Roll D6.  If odd, PopM = D6 + 4 (re-roll results of 10);
                    If even, PopM = D6 - 1 (re-roll results of 5).

     In the course of this little task, I've found that having a random
function that simulates the roll of a single die to be quite useful.

 >Hope this helps

     Yeah, it did, actually.  Thank you.


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     Brent

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