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DarkBASIC Discussion / quick question about Randomizing numbers

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Caleb1994
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Posted: 15th Dec 2008 01:05
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is there a way to make it so it randomizes differently every time i run the game because it always comes up the same
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BN2 Productions
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Posted: 15th Dec 2008 12:32
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at the beginning of your program use:

RANDOMIZE Timer()


That should do the trick.

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Robert The Robot
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Posted: 15th Dec 2008 16:59
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"Randomize" takes a new number to be the "seed" used to generate future random numbers. Timer() increases at a rate of 1000 times a second from the moment the computer is switched on.

So using Timer() as the seed number pretty much guarantees that the resulting set of random numbers will always be different.

Hope this helps!

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Caleb1994
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Posted: 15th Dec 2008 20:41
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oh ok thanks i was just confsed why it was always the same haha
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