Question

I am working on a small game where prizes are awarded based on a random number. So when a mission is completed and the reward has to be handed out, I want to randomly generate the prize. Currently I am getting a random number between 1 and 500 and then using a giant nested if-else statement to assign the prize based on the result. It is obvious to me that this is the wrong way to do this, however I am not sure what other way this may be done.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You can just use a prize array to hold your prices, use the random value as index into the array to pick a prize.

var prizes = new Prize[500];
//fill prizes
//randomly select index within prize array

If there are gaps or only a few numbers win anything, use a dictionary mapping from an integer to a prize ( or nothing if they key doesn’t exist) instead.