Money Multiplication Skill

[Jeff the Green]

I'm having trouble with this snippet of code that shouldn't be so frustrating.
I created a skill that does damage to the player in exchange for more money after the battle. I linked it to a common event turning switch #1 on, and added this snippet of code:

if $game_switches[1]=1
gold *=1.4
gold.round
end

just above $game_party.gain_gold(gold) in Scene_Battle 2 (line 179). It multiplies the amount of gold you get, but it doesn't round, so I get 252.4 gold, or whatever, after the battle. Even if I don't use the skill, it gives me 100.0 gold. I also tried gold.truncate instead of gold.round, which doesn't help. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Kicks]

I myself have the opposite problem, I want decimals, but it seems to be coming from the fact that I use variables.
So as a weaker solution you could say
$game_variables[xxxx] = gold
if $game_switches[1] == 1
$game_variables[xxxx] *= 1.4
end
then make gold = to $game_variables[xxxx] however you're already doing it.

PS
If you put " = " and not " == " for your 'if' statement. (one equal sign instead of two) you're not gonna be getting problems.

 

[Jeff the Green]

That doesn't seem to help; I'm still getting a decimal, and using == makes it so that the stuff under the if clause never happens.

 

[Raziel]

Your if statement should look like:

if $game_switches[1] == true/false

 

[Jeff the Green]

Okay, using

if $game_switches[1] == true

makes it so I don't get a decimal when I don't use the skill, but I still get one when I do use it.

 

[Draycos Goldaryn]

try this, it may work, instead of

gold *=1.4

do this

gold *= (1 + (2/5))

sometimes fractions are the way to go.

 

[Chaosg1]

or do gold = (1.4 * gold) +0.5
gold .to_i
it will cut the decimals and round it

 

[Jeff the Green]

Thanks Draycos! That just helped me figure it out. If anyone is interested in using this, what I did was:

gold *= 7
gold /= 5

Which gives me 1.4x the amount of gold, rounded.
Thanks again.