Rng System With Luck increase

[simplyjustbased]

Not sure how i would make a rng type system that increases with luck.
but also if you have enough luck it would decrease the chances of the more common things

for example
with 1 luck it would look something like this

local Luck = 1

local TableOfRaritys = {
	["CommonItem"] = 100,
	["UncommonItem"] = 80,
	["RareItem"] = 50,
	["EpicItem"] = 20,
	["LegendaryItem"] = 5,
}

With 10 luck

local Luck = 10

local TableOfRaritys = {
	["CommonItem"] = 80,
	["UncommonItem"] = 100,
	["RareItem"] = 80,
	["EpicItem"] = 40,
	["LegendaryItem"] = 15,
}

and with 100 luck

local Luck = 100

local TableOfRaritys = {
	["CommonItem"] = 1, -- or 0
	["UncommonItem"] = 20,
	["RareItem"] = 70,
	["EpicItem"] = 100,
	["LegendaryItem"] = 55,
}

Sorry if this is vague, i couldn’t really wrap my head around how to explain it

[E7LK]

Could this be what you’re looking for?

Weighted Chance System

This tutorial requires a good understanding of Lua! Hello! Today I will teach you how to make a Weighted Chance System. To those that do not know, this is a system that will do something based on chance. For this tutorial, I will be using a prize system. You want to start by having a table of prizes and the chances of getting them ranging from 0-1. [image] Next, you want a Variable called Weight to hold a value of 0. [image] Now, you want to iterate through the PrizeTable and add the…

[simplyjustbased]

@E7LK

Could this be what you’re looking for?

This is apart of it but not it fully, this will help though

[simplyjustbased]

Could still use some help on this

[Azarctic]

You can use equations to weight your items. Exponential functions might be a good idea.
If I were you I’d just play around on a graphing calculator, here’s one I made for ["CommonItem"]

[simplyjustbased]

@Azarctic

Exponential functions

ion got this but ill try to brute-force it

also what if it was for any other item?
would it need to go up then down? like with ["UncommonItem"]

[Inconcludable]

Here’s the function I personally use:

function getRandomItem(Table)
	local total = 0
	for i, v in pairs(Table) do
		total += v
	end
	local r = RNG:NextNumber(0, total)
	local add = 0
	for item, v in pairs(Table) do
		if r > add and r <= add + v then
			return item
		end
		add += v
	end
	return 0
end

This function gets a dictionary with the result as the key, and the chance as the number. For example:

local Items = {
	Common = 100;
	Uncommon = 30;
	Rare = 10;
	Epic = 2;
	Legendary = 0.1;
}

The nice thing about this function is that it doesn’t require all the numbers to add up to 1 or 100. With the example table, it would return strings such as "Uncommon" or "Epic".

[simplyjustbased]

interesting, ill change my stuff rq

[simplyjustbased]

Unrelated to any reply, but in better explanation i want something to go from 1 to 100 back to 1, if its even possible with just a math equation

[Azarctic]

There are quite a few math equations you can use for this, here’s some I came up with. Gaussian curve, sine curve, quadratic curve. Here’s a demo for 1 to 100 and back to 1 for example

[Azarctic]

Sorry, quadratic equation was wrong**

[simplyjustbased]

ok these look cool (mainly cuz ion understand them) but in a roblox sense what would x be?, because im guessing i cant just plug it into a script and have it work
nvm pretend like i crossed this out cuz idk the way to do it

x is the luck idk why i didnt think about it for a second
but this does work for me ty

[simplyjustbased]

one last thing, how can i make this scale out longer?
so not everything needs “50 luck” to reach max scaling?

[simplyjustbased]

Ill mark this as a solution as its a way ive found that im pretty sure works

local Luck = 1

function GetRaritys()
	local Raritys = {
		{"Common", 100 * Luck},
		{"Uncommon", 50 * Luck},
		{"Rare", 25 * Luck},
		{"Epic", 12.5 * Luck}
	}
	
	
	for i, v in ipairs(Raritys) do
		if Raritys[i][2] > 100 then
			if Raritys[i+1] and Raritys[i+1][2] >= 100 then
				Raritys[i][2] = -((Raritys[i][2]/100)*1.15) + 100
			elseif Raritys[i][2] > 100 then
				if Raritys[i+1] then
					if not (Raritys[i+1][2] >= 100) then
						Raritys[i][2] = 100
					end
				else
					Raritys[i][2] = 100
				end
			end
		end
	end
	
	return Raritys
end

Luck = 2
print(GetRaritys(), Luck)
Luck = 3
print(GetRaritys(), Luck)

of course the luck numbers and the raritys could use some tweaking to your liking but this works fine for me atleast

(edit, fixxed a few things)

[Azarctic]

Sorry for the late response, I’m not sure what you’ve done with your solution but you can just scale the graphs. If you want luck to max out at different values then you change x to 1/ratio. So for example if we’re going from 100 max luck to 50 max luck I’d change x to 1/(50/100) = 2. So now I use 2x instead of x. (See purple graph). If you want the max rarity to decrease you just change the whole equation by the factor you are decreasing by (see blue graph)