I am making a game where you are the governor of a city, and you have to "manage" its citizens and economy. I currently have variables for "male", "female", "pop" (population), "trade", "births", and "deaths". I want the amounts of males, females, births, and deaths to be random (or partly random and partly based on certain parameters). Does anybody know how I would go about writing the code for this?
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Thankyou for your help with this. I have another question. This game is not turn based, its in realtime. I was thinking of making every 15 minutes a different season, and every four seasons, the year would update. That would make each year an hour in realtime. I am not sure exactly how to do this. I tried using sys_minutes, but that didn't work. I also don't know how to make the random variables update only once a season. Can anyone help me?
-Deyshawn

function main()
{
...randomize();

var male = 1000 + (random(500) - random(500));
...


maybe something like this?

I would say something like


And the "not random" part you can do with adding the parameters or sub them like
male = random(population - parameter);

Thankyou, I didn't know that "random" was a command.

I think randomize() is gone and replaced with random_seed(var seed), where seed = 0 gives a true random number sequence.