How do I set a condition based on a variable?

Hi guys,

hope someone can help me with this.

So basically I have a guy working a farm, producing 1 food ever 2 seconds.

the way this is set up is basically this: if the farm is empty -> call a function to make minions go to . on collision with it, the minion sprite is destroyed, and a value of 1 is added to farm's instance variable. when the value of 3 is reached, the function changes the behavior of the minions, so they would not be interested in it any longer.

when the first minion enters the farm, 1 is added to farm's instance variable and also a boolean "isInhabited" set to true.

the problem is that I have tried to make it so when there is only 1 guy working to add 1 to the global variable "food" ever 2 seconds, when 2 guys are working, i wanted to add 5 to food every 2 seconds or when farm's boolean "isFull" is set to true (meaning 3 farmers), to add 12 to food every 3 seconds.

don't think i'm skilled enough to think this one through. here's an image with the best idea i've had so far..

hopefully someone can illuminate me!

You need another variable to track workers on the farm. You can then use a condition event that checks the variable and if workers =1 then add 1 to food, if workers =2 then add 5, if workers = 3 then set boolean isFull and add 12 food.

I would recommend not having the 12 be 3 seconds and 1 and 5 be 2 seconds... it just add a layer of difficulty that is not needed... just decide how much 3 workers will make in 2 seconds... this way you can put the above in one event that is triggered every 2 seconds.

I did just that and it worked! by checking a variable "farmerCount" i can then set how much food is produced every x seconds!

As for the values, they're obviously not hammered in. this was just random numbers for testing purposes. Wanted to see a clear difference in value and time when testing at the end I would more than likely keep the food produced at an even number of every x seconds.

Thanks for the tip