creating a marker on a town using nearestLocations with hint of selected towns name

[hogmason 2]

ok so I am trying to select a random town using nearestLocations create a marker on it then give players a hint containing the selected towns name.

I found I can do it not using random like

   _position = nearestLocations [getPosATL center_pos, ["NameVillage","NameCity","NameCityCapital"], 25000];
   _town = _position select 0;

   _m = createMarker ["test",getPos _town];
   _m setMarkerShape "ELLIPSE";
   _m setMarkerSize [250,250];
   _m setMarkerBrush "Solid";
   _m setMarkerAlpha 0.7;
   _m setMarkerColor "ColorYellow";

hint parseText format["<t color=""#80FF00"">New Task At %1,",text _town];	

but when I try with random town selection it fails i.e

   _position = nearestLocations [getPosATL center_pos, ["NameVillage","NameCity","NameCityCapital"], 25000];   
_RandomTownPosition = position (_position select (floor (random (count _position)))); 

_town = _RandomTownPosition select 0;

   _m = createMarker ["test",_RandomTownPosition];
   _m setMarkerShape "ELLIPSE";
   _m setMarkerSize [250,250];
   _m setMarkerBrush "Solid";
   _m setMarkerAlpha 0.7;
   _m setMarkerColor "ColorYellow";

hint parseText format["<t color=""#80FF00"">New Task At %1",text _town];

it says type number expected string location

[hogmason 2]

I should off named it getting town name using random nearestLocations.

As that is what im trying to do

[tryteyker 28]

count and such returns an integer value. Try using str to convert it to a string and see if it works.

_townmkr = str(_randomtownposition)
hint format ["%1",_townmkr];

to test. Not sure if it works.

Actually it'll just return the number in string format. Tried removing count?

[hogmason 2]

when I remove count like

_RandomTownPosition = position (_location select (floor (random (_location))));

I get this error

error random type array expected number