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Is RNG really random?
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Post by
skumbananer
During several years of playing wow, i have began to question the randomness of randomly generated numbers. Needrolls in particular.
If those numbers really where random, then explain these, i dare you:
1) if a vanity Item drops, like a mount, or a mini pet, it is always the one who dies on the very first boss aoe who wins the roll. if no such person is present, the most obnoxious in the group or raid wins instead.
2) If a fiveman instance drops a tank shield, or a tanking trinket, and a dpser or the healer needrolls, the prot warrior or the prot paladin NEVER has the highest roll.
3) If a raid drops a dps trinket that every physical dps wants, a retribution paladin with spiky hairdo always wins the roll.
4) In a fiveman run, if there is a deathknight in your party named anything with "dk", "deth", "death", "swe", "dk", "killer", "killa", or "arthas" somewhere in his name, if he needrolls anything, he will win the roll. Guaranteed!
5) In a timed ZA- run, if you have a subletly specced undead rogue in your party sporting pvp gear, he has a 100% chance of obtaining the bear mount, if you make the timed run.
Discuss.
Post by
HardpointNomad
Yep, a little Gnome parks itself inside Blizzard Entertainment and rolls a pair of dice every drop.
Post by
Pwntiff
No, it's pseudorandom. Nothing automated can be truly random.
Post by
Adamsm
Rng is Rng and will always be so.
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Post by
gnomerdon
no. it's not random.....
they say it's random, but it's not...
screw you wow!
Post by
hymer
I got the joke, skumbananer, and I thought it was funny. Don't listen to those others. :p
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127599
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Post by
Monday
Nothing is truly random.
I have to agree.
Post by
lankybrit
Actually, it's pseudo-random.
But sometimes it just doesn't feel very random at all.
Hitting a Walleye has been my Fishing daily in SWC for the past 6 days!
Cheers.
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278980
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Post by
Interest
Nothing is truly random.
This.
Also, there should be a laws of RNG somewhere
Post by
Pwntiff
I read the whole thing. RNG actually being pRNG is topical to both the title and the post. And if the title is atopical to the post, then that's the OP's fault, not the responders'. :P
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662029
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Post by
wtfoomnofair
Laughed at the people who took the post serious.
But yeah, when I used to play this game, it felt like I never got lucky until someone just randomly gave me 25k gold and a chopper (mid-wotlk). Then I got accepted to a guild being the only rogue/agility dps, I got all the gear without having to worry about spending my raid-guild points (forgot how you call them).
Then I moved from Europe to the US and quit playing. :p
Post by
Bawkxy
1. Untrue
2. Not true
3. No Master Looter in a Raid? Fail.
4. Never seen this happen
5. lolwut?
You sound like you are hurt over some rolls that you have lost.
Best thing to do is to go into every instance/raid etc with the notion that you are not going to win anything. That way, if you do, Happy Dance!
Remember - Random is Random.
I can't help it....
Y SO SERIOUS?
Post by
Orranis
Murphy's Law bro.
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