Define certain probability for categorical choice.

[mschnyde]

Hello everyone,

If I define:

~[greet]
      ooh [hi|hello?/70] chatette community !

It will eather generate:

"ooh chatette community" with 50% chance "ooh hello chatette community" with 50% * 70% chance "ooh hi chatette community" with 50% * 30% chance

My question is the following: Can I unbalance the probability of a categorical choice without having to use the "?" ?

I would want to specify something like this:

~[greet]
      ooh [hi|hello/70] chatette community !

[SimGus]

Hello :)

You are absolutely correct about your percentages there.

It is not possible at the moment to change the probability of generating each category in a choice, though as you pointed out, it is possible to approach such a feature using a random generation modifier. As you imply this is not a perfect solution, since you might want the choice to always generate something, but still tune the probabilities. Plus, this workaround would be very ugly for a choice with more than 2 categories (you'd need to embed a choice into another I presume).

I'll write that down as a nice feature to add in an upcoming version, but at the moment this remains unsupported. I'll notify you when this feature is implemented and close this issue.

Cheers!