Random Variables?

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Has anyone been able to get random variables to work?   I would like a mod where the AI opponent randomly chooses one of several different AI sovereigns, but no luck.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Does anyone know or have some advice?

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

AFAIK we can't use Python yet, and XML is not a type of language where you can do such things.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting _PawelS_, reply 2
AFAIK we can't use Python yet, and XML is not a type of language where you can do such things.
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Exactly. XML is designed to describe data.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

There are a few random values, but they are all tied to their respective tags and attributes, and you can't use them to calculate things. Beyond that, I haven't seen anything in the xml files.

It is possible that we can describe random values right now, only we don't know how.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Nope. No idea how the <expressions> work which is, I believe, how they'd be implemented.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Thanks for the answers... hopefully we receive the designs for using randoms variables in one of the updates.

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Quoting NTJedi, reply 6
Thanks for the answers... hopefully we receive the designs for using randoms variables in one of the updates.
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It won't be till fall when the inner workings of the game are exposed via Python.