Easy way to randomly Spread Value

[Kentronisk]

I have N number of objects (between 2-6, depending on amount of players), and I want to give each player an ID between 1 and N (if its just 2 players, I want ID 1 and 2, and not anything higher).
A normal spread value will always return the same ID to each player, and its not random enough.

Anyone have a simple way to do this??

[ProdigyX]

Try

+ Pick Object Alpha at random
+ Object Alpha Alterable Value A = 0 (or some other default value)
+ MyCounter is less than <Number of Object Alpha>
- Set Alterable Value A to MyCounter
- Add 1 to MyCounter

or

+ <Some trigger event>
- Spread Value <Number of Object Alpha> through Alterable Value A
- Set Object Alpha AV A to 1 + ((Object Alpha AV A + Random(<any number here>)) mod <Number of Object Alpha>)

[Kentronisk]

Thanks for reply.

I should have mentioned that I would preffer this to happen in 1 event. As far as I understand, the first one must run Number of Alpha object times, minimum.
I tried the second one, but in my file its not guaranteed that the values will be unique. For the record, I want this too :b

Any other ideas??

[ColdFire]

- Some action -> Start loop for each object
- On for each loop -> set value to random(N)

[DavidN]

You could run ProdigyX's first suggestion in an On Loop event, triggering the loop [number of players] times.

I think that the assignment of spread values is dependent on creation order or order within the layer, so you could randomly pick players and toggle their layers around to see if that does anything before you spread the value.

[Mook06]

whipped this up quickly, not exactly 1 line to randomize, hit spacebar to randomize the id's
random id assign.mfa

[Kentronisk]

I have solved my stuckness by doing a completely different approach. My goal was to place players around according to their ID, but I rather did a fastloop and swapped positions X times.

I will quickly try to answer my thread title anyway.
First off, I didnt mean 1 event (yet another mistake, I should stop making threads 3 at night). What I ment was to randomly spread the IDs in as many lines of events it takes, but in the first loop. I have events lower down in my game that requires the IDs to be randomly spread the first time they run. My dirty backup plan for this would be to make a sort of initialize group of events, and do not activate the rest of the events before this group have completed X times. The events used in this group could be ProdigyX's or Mook06's examples.
I dont exactly know how the "pick one element" event works, but Im imagining it may pick the same element multiple times, so a loop "number of objects" times would probably not be enough.

Anyway, Im sure the next person reading this thread (if any) are able to find something useful! As always, thanks a lot for all replies!