Make enemies shoot at me

[allenh98]

Basically, what I want for my program is to have my enemies shoot at me. For example, if soldierX (which is the enemies X co-ords) is between say 500 and 600 (to make it shoot at a random time each time), how can I make my program shoot a sprite at me? What happens currently is this in pseudocode

if soldierX = 600 then
enemyMissilex = soldierX
enemyMissilex := enemyMissilex - 10
end if

the point to enemyMissilex := enemyMissilex - 10 is because I want it to go faster than my soldier, *which is soldierX := soldierX - 5). However, what ends up happening is that only while soldierX is 600 will it shoot. Is there a way for when soldierX is 600 to make it shoot the entire length of my screen? I hope you guys understand what I'm talking about.

[DifinityRJ]

if soldierX = 600 then
enemyMissilex = soldierX
enemyMissilex := enemyMissilex - 10
end if

Well first off your doing something wrong, your making enemyMissilex = soldierX, so even if you decrease enemyMissilex position your always reseting it back to soldierX.

[Clayton]

code:

if soldierX = 600 then

Your problem lies right here. You only ever shoot if you're at 600. Instead, you need to have a range to shoot within, represented by the inequality 500 <= x <= 600, I'm sure you can figure it out from here.