I need help with percentages

Im doing a simple outbreak game, is a turn based game.

I have in the gam several areas, each area have those variables:

• population
• cleaness
• isolation
• infected
• deaths
• recovered

And some global variables:

• infection_rate
• recovery_rate
• turn_number
• cycle_number

My logic is simple:

Each turn i do this:

add to area.infected area.population*(infection_rate*0.02)/100

the 0.02 value is a rate of in this case 2% for isolation below 40

But the number go up too fast, more like 20% instead of 2%

any help or advise of how do this math better.

Ps: each cycle that is two turns i do the math for deaths count.. basicaly is this:

add to area.deaths area.infected*0.02

this number also go up high very fast

if you are updating those variables every tick, then that will be happening 60 times a second.

Your math looks fine, so it is probably running more times than you expect. We would have to see your code to be able to help more.

Which of these variables are absolute values, and which are relative (percentages)? What is the value of infection_rate?

if you are updating those variables every tick, then that will be happening 60 times a second.

Your math looks fine, so it is probably running more times than you expect. We would have to see your code to be able to help more.

is not for every tick this heapens on a buton click that i run the logic as a function

Which of these variables are absolute values, and which are relative (percentages)? What is the value of infection_rate?

all of them are absolute numbers, the only percentages are infection_rate and recovery rate.

as i mentioned on the expression i also put a 0.02 value simulating a 2% for areas with isolation below 50.

Isolation are values from 0 to 100

Yeah, you need to post your code. Is it possible that you are processing areas multiple times? For example, if you have a loop and not picking the right area instance inside the loop, then "infected" variable will be incremented for all areas several times each turn.

Here it is:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1bdrtmkImbODfROSePudUj9vR0jPV8aHZ

(0.02/100) is not 2%, that's 0.02%. So if the isolation is 40-50, you are adding only 0.02%, but if the isolation is 10-10, you are adding 3.02%, which is 150 times more! Maybe that's why you are seeing such a big difference in numbers sometimes.

Other than that I think your formulas are working correctly.

But your code is extremely inefficient. Are you planning to duplicate events 23-57 for other 8 areas? This is a terribly wrong approach, don't do this!!

Use a single sprite object for all 9 areas (make 9 instances of it). Or add all 9 areas into a family. Use the family in all events and you will be able to optimize your code by 80-90%!

Can you give me a example of the code?

If you use one sprite, your function will look like this:

You will only need ~20 events, instead of 200.

You already have Areas family. To start using it you need to move all variables from sprites to the family level. Check out this tutorial:

https://www.construct.net/en/tutorials/upgrade-object-family-319

But it may be even easier just to use one sprite Area with 9 instances. (delete all other area sprites).

I meant for the percentages