Vote System?

[thedragiin]

I've given so many frustrating hours to this idea that I'm turning to the professionals. I've been trying to build a vote-dialog system, and I'm stuck on determining a winner. Its all about the numbers. There are 8 options to vote for, so a binary system is out of the question. Also, I'd like to avoid using a daisy-chain of IF statements. Has anyone had any success in finding an easy way to do this?

 

[Dr Super Good]

What sort of vote is this... Gradual or abrupt?
Gradual for difficulties where if someone votes easy and another hard you get a medium difficulty out.
Abrupt like elections where you vote for 1 of many options and which ever scores the most wins.

With gradual, you are just after getting the average vote result by asigning all buttons numbers with a linear gradient, summing and deviding by vote number.

With abrupt you use a maximum algerthim to find whatever got the most votes. If there is a tie you need to eithor revote or randomly choose.

 

[thedragiin]

Its an abrupt system of 8 options, and can you please be a bit more specific?
My old system was:

• Locals:
• Integer i
• Integer r
• Integer winner
• Actions:
• Pick each integer (1 thru 8):
  • set i = i + 1
  • Pick each integer(1 thru 8):
    • set r = r + 1
    • IF
      • Votes[i] > votes[r]
        • i != r
    • THEN
      • set winner = i

Its not the most effective system(especially since it doesn't work...), but I can't find any workarounds.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Arrays start at 0 and go to size-1. Thus an array of size 8 will have indicies of 0 to 7 (inclusive). Player 0 is not playable so players will go from 1 to some number.

Have some pesudo code...

number = 0
max = 0
while number < array.size{
if array[number] > array[max]{
max = number
}
number++
}
//Code here that uses the value in max which is the index of the most votes.