Jailbusts

[vampireduff]

My players are saying that they find it hard to bust others from the jail. is there away to make this a little easier for them? I have looked in the jailbust.php but not sure what I'm looking for any help would be great

[Jordan Palmer]

Do you have a changed version? I thought it went off two chances which is pretty easy if you're asking me,.

[vampireduff]

basic mcc version I think. don't think I've changed it at least I don't remember changing it. anyway here is where I thought it need changing.

 

}
$mult=$r['level']*$r['level'];
$chance=min(($ir['crimexp']/$mult)*50+1, 95);
if(rand(1,100) < $chance)
{

 

that is line 22 to 26 in jailbust.php I changed (1,100) to (1,50) but my players say it is still hard to bust others

[Dabomstew]

The rand(1,100) bit is there to make the "chance" work like a percentage chance of success.

What the formula does is it takes the user's crime XP, and divides it by the person they are trying to bust's level squared. This will give a number which could be anywhere from just over 0 to a very large number. This is then multiplied by 50 to give the percentage chance of them getting a successful bust.

The +1 is there to ensure that your chance of busting someone is never 0%. If the formula above gave a number less than 1, then you would never be able to bust someone without the +1.

The min(95, chance) bit ensures that your chance of busting someone can never be greater than 95%, to make sure people with bucketloads of crime experience can't just bust hundreds of people successfully.

Let's take an example here. Say a person with 100 crime XP tries to bust a level 11 player.

Their chance of busting them would be (100/(11*11))*50 + 1, which is 42.3, to 1 decimal place. So 42 times out of 100 they would succeed in busting the person, as 42 out of the possible numbers 1-100 are less than 42.3.

As to how to make this easier? The way you have done it, changing (1,100) to (1,50), is one possible way, but is flawed in that there will eventually be some players that can bust everyone every time [as people can have a "chance" higher than 50]. This isn't the best idea, as in this situation no-one would stay in jail for any length of time at all.

What you can do is change the *50 to something bigger like *75 or even *100 if you're so inclined. This would just straight up increase people's busting capabilities, while retaining the 95% chance cap to leave some room for failure in there.

[vampireduff]

thanks for that detailed explaination, I will set it back to its default setting, I don't want to make it too easy for them. I have honors set for set number of busts and I don't want to give them out too easy too, they will just have to work at it :)