[Celena Luna]

Originally Posted by Bugsy Ok, how do I determine what skills have already been used and which are free? Which variables store this? I don't want to waste time (again) with assumptions.

my plan at first was like this"

PHP Code:

#define MAX_LEVLE 30

//Player have 30 level, each time they level up, they will register a new skill into this variable
new g_PlayerSkill[33][MAX_LEVEL], g_TotalSkill

...

public getSkill(id, level)
{
    new nextskill; 
    nextskill = random(1, g_TotalSkill) //0 was register as placeholder so it start from 1
    if(!IsHaveSkill(nextskill)) //Check
        g_PlayerSkill[id][level-1] = nextskill //level - 1 because level start giving skill at level 1 => if level then g_PlayerSkill[id][0] will be unused;
    else
    {
        /* here is the problem */
        getSkill(id, level) 
        /* When the level is higher, the chance of hitting the skill player already got is so high 
        that if a lot of player level up at the same time, lag or even crash will happened */
    } 


After reading suggestion, I did thought about getting the skill that not have first (Not tested):

PHP Code:

#define MAX_SKILL 45
#define MAX_LEVEL 30
new bool:g_PlayerSkill[33][MAX_SKILL]
new g_PlayerSkill_Level[33][MAX_LEVEL]

public plugin_init()
{
    register_plugin(PLUGIN, VERSION, AUTHOR)

    // Add your code here...
}

public filter_skill(id, SkillNotHave[MAX_SKILL])
{
    static count=0;
    for(new i=0; i < MAX_SKILL; i++)
    {
        if(g_PlayerSkill[id][i] == false) 
            SkillNotHave[count] = i //Save the skillid here
    }
    return count
}

public skillGet(id, level)
{
    new Buffer[MAX_SKILL], skill_num, nextskill
    skill_num = filter_skill(id, Buffer); //Getting number of skill available + the array contain all of those skill
    nextskill = random(skill_num); //Ranom it
    g_PlayerSkill[id][Buffer[nextskill]] = true; 
    g_PlayerSkill_Level[id][level-1] = Buffer[nextskill]
} 


Not sure it is better or not since I have to use 1 more 2D Array for this.

Of course

PHP Code:

g_PlayerSkill[33][g_TotalSkill] //This is not gonna happened 


so I have to use MAX_SKILL which will be a pain in the future if the skill number increase and I can't count how much it is.