Re: Determining a string representation from a calculated range of scores

Hello,

I was hoping someone might have some insights towards a better design for this use case.
In my game I am determining the hero's title based on their current score in the game.

A common example would be a personality quiz, or any academic test where you answer a series of questisons and it calculates a score at the end and gives you some sort of rating.

Score, Grade (string)
100-90 A+
89-85 A
84-80 A
etc...

Obviously I can implement this with a simple if block, and I have, but it doesn't seem like a very elegant or versatile solution if I wish to include more titles in the future, or change the range of scores which yield a certain title.

I'm sure this isn't a difficult problem, I just can't think of a better way. Ultimately I want to become a better programmer and thought some others might have some insights here.

Thanks in advance

 

More a scripting question than a Game Design question.

What is inelegant or not versatile about it? What behavior would you prefer it to have that a simple "if block" or switch would not?

 

How many axes of information do you want? I'd think about implementing it as a table.

Eg: If you had "Good / Evil" on one axis and "Power" on another, then you could look up names for "good weak people" and "evil weak people" and "neutral experienced people" and "powerful good people".

You could potentially then have different tables for different classes. Eg: A good, powerful fighter = a paladin. An evil, weak fighter is a bandit. A good, powerful magic user is a "sage", and so on.