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C-Tzar · Jun 03, 2005, 03:50 PM // 15:50

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Originally Posted by Teklord

I just had to chime in on this one. A little off topic I know, but anyone who's done a decent amount of programming knows there is no such thing as "true" random. There actually is a pattern to everything some patterns are just too complex to accurately determine. Any Mathematicians aout there would probably agree as well. It's kind of like the term impossible; there is no true impossiblity only varying degrees of probability. Many things just have a probability of being so low that it can 'appear' to never happen. I could talk about this stuff for hours, but I'll stop now!

Auuuggghhh, I hate this argument. I have done a "decent" amount of programming...as a full time career for 10 years and a hobby for 20. What you are saying may be technically correct, but it's completely irrelevant. Nobody's talking about underlying patterns (which you don't have any where near enough samples here to come close to seeing), they're talking about devs intentionally modifying odds (which isn't happening, people just don't understand "random" well enough). And the random number generation capabilities we have are more than "random enough" for a video game. This argument has no place here, and honestly just makes people who throw it out there sound pretentious.

EDIT: OK, perhaps a bit harsh. I'm just really tired of seeing people argue about random number generation theory in a video game.

ChristopherKee · Jun 03, 2005, 06:07 PM // 18:07

C-Tzar.. not to harsh. Engineer programer here myself. I was just about to say the same thing. It's random enough in a sense that the amount of data you would need to collect to find the pattern would take so long, the formula that generates the drop % would have changed many times by then.

Jun 03, 2005, 06:07 PM // 18:07	#22
ChristopherKee Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Apr 2005	C-Tzar.. not to harsh. Engineer programer here myself. I was just about to say the same thing. It's random enough in a sense that the amount of data you would need to collect to find the pattern would take so long, the formula that generates the drop % would have changed many times by then.