Random Generator .. ?

Not so random. Statistically speaking. What are the odds of getting NINE (9) greps in emme caves in a row (gold only chest excluded). I think I have better chances of winning the lottery given the possible number of items those chests can give.

I would need to see the chests to be able to tell you the odds.
Not all chests are random and random chests can give between 2 and 10 (or is it 20?) items.

Without looking at the specific chests I could not comment on their randomness.

Are chests designed like

A steel owl
B steel bear
C grep

or it like

A armor
B grep

or like

a helm
b chest
c potion

???

1. Bronze helm
2. Bronze Armour
3. Mana potion

1/3rd chance of each being generated.

So if each of those chests had only a 1 in 3 chance of giving a grep, that'd make it a 1 in 20,000 occurrence roughly.

I suppose its possible to randomly get that once. But I've also noticed other times that it just feels like the 'random' is based on the game timer. Things like getting 3 bear wands back to back..etc. Its just happened too many times to REALLY seem random.

Tldr; Im nuts and its not truly important.

I have never tested the random number generator to see if it is truly random.
It is a standard C function.

Having said that, I got so many "lost focus" on my heals in the recent ML that I felt is was not random either.

Lordlava wrote:

I have never tested the random number generator to see if it is truly random.
It is a standard C function.

Having said that, I got so many "lost focus" on my heals in the recent ML that I felt is was not random either.

It's semi random as I recall. To make it truly random I think you include the TIME function as a seed which does the trick.

I wonder if you could just replace the RANDOM macro with arc4random() instead of random() it's a bit more random.

Though I think that would require adding the bsd library.

Argh!

random() is used everywhere and a few other places besides.

CopyPaste ruins every last bit of originality.
CopyPaste ruins every last bit of originality.
CopyPaste ruins every last bit of originality.

Did a bit of testing with random(), it seems you get a better range of random when using larger numbers. Might make things have a better distribution by having it be a random number in 10x what it currently is. So instead of 1 in 20 make it 10 in 200.

It still means hundreds if not thousands of places to find and change....

You could always just change the more common things, like losing focus. Or give me the code you have and I'll do it.