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  • 19 Aug, 2019
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  > That's 12 years of using a product that needs to pay employees to keep it fixed and updated while making only one payment. The cost of maintaining such software over the long-haul exceeds the income of a one-time payment system.It's not a long-term, sustainable method of income.

  Not sustainable? Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer made their money before all this rental bullshit and they are worth about $160,000,000,000 And that's just the top 2 guys.

  I've got some bad news...

• • newt
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  • 19 Aug, 2019
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  mekonbekon Thanks for the example, that sort of makes sense.

  Speaking of, I do recall some games having multiple probabilities for things like drops. So in theory something could have both a 10% chance, and a 50% chance of dropping.

  Nepeo Yes both the table import, and expression sound nice. I'm good with where we are however. Thanks for clearing that up.

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  • 18 Aug, 2019
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  construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/plugin-reference/advanced-random

  There's an action to create a named table, but no way to reference any specific table.

  Is that planned for the future?

  I hope so, because the ability to have more than one would be quite useful.

  Then again we also have an acton to set, or I guess rename the current probability table which doesn't make sense as is if there's only one table.

  Finally we have an action to remove a probability entry, which I would expect, but it also includes the entry weight. I don't see the point of that. I mean I thought there was just one weight to each entry.

  Thanks.

• • newt
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  • 18 Aug, 2019
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  Try putting an array as a container.

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• • newt
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  • 15 Aug, 2019
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  It's getting quite irritating. That, and having to read "should not of" instead of "should not have" everytime! :P

  And that's why you are a gooder coder.

  Also, do we really need an arcade?

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  • 15 Aug, 2019
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  You could erase it, or set its index to -1.

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• • newt
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  • 14 Aug, 2019
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  Here you go:

  dropbox.com/s/sa4virz50o01w7a/merrychristmas.c3p

• • newt
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  • 14 Aug, 2019
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  That would be a bug.

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  • 13 Aug, 2019
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  Might want to check out the Ajax plug

  construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/plugin-reference/ajax

  Be aware that cors is a major issue, but shouldn't as difficult if you are within the same domain.

• • newt
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  • 13 Aug, 2019
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  A very basic example

  dropbox.com/s/06ag97z673lruax/orderstring.c3p

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• • newt
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  • 12 Aug, 2019
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  The simplest method would be to use a string variable.

  Each input set the variable to the current value and the new input.

  On input variableString set value to variableString& input

  You would also need a counter to tell it when to check.

  When it's time to check, compare varaibleString to another variable with the correct order.

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  • 12 Aug, 2019
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  Set layer angle instead of layout.

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  • 10 Aug, 2019
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  Not bad.

  This would solve a lot of things regular particles are missing, collisions etc, for a nice trade off.