Weighed random list

[VictorGijsbers]

@pashaimeru

I need to make a weighed random list of things that may happen for my game. Which is probably going to be something like a table of the things, with a number attacked to it as the likelihood of the specific thing being picked. So that there’s a good chance of a things A and B being picked from the list of random things, but a low chance of a thing C being picked instead. What’s the logic for that?

I wrote some code that does exactly that here. It allows much finer control over the probabilities than Joey’s approach does – which might be either good or bad, depending on whether you need fine control.