My Thoughts about RNG Manipulation.

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Mammatus wrote:

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nGio wrote:

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Mammatus wrote:

I work in a casino, statistical improbabilities happen all the time and there is always 1 exception loser at the table saying;
'after 31 it always comes 13'
If it comes 13 he says 'see, I told you'
If it doesn't come 13 he just doesn't register it as he only sees shit in the world that confirms the stupid connections his flawed mind has constructed in it's attempts to make sense of the chaotic world.

That's a lot different than every player hitting 13 every night from precisely 6pm to 7pm, and from 7:01pm to 5:59pm no one hitting 13. Are there weird people that believe in Astrology and Homeopathy and a bunch of other weird off the wall shit? Of course. But refusing to believe something in front of you just because you don't want to see it is equally as silly.

There you go again..... so you did the math and the shit you are seeing is equal to everyone hitting 13 from 6pm to 7pm lol. You really do have a strange brain, you are trying to convey statistical improbabilities with no idea how to get an idea across in a convincing manner, just making shit up.

You believe something
You have no proof and haven't actually looked into it
You have no evidence that you can back up
you are starting a religion

Get some proof that doesn't involve 'I saw this' and you might make someone think rather then roll their eyes.

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exhortatory wrote:

It's a decent attempt at a plausible explanation given the amount of data you have access to, but as noted elsewhere it's really unlikely that GGG would have the experience necessary to create and successfully run PoE from scratch and make that sort of ... choice.

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syrioforel wrote:

Then, this would explain the behavior that you just described without anything sinister going on, right? It would just be an error on GGG's part, resulting from an (incredibly) naive way of computing drops. Maybe their drop system is a bit naive, then. Who knows?

(This, by the way, is one kind of bug that I might believe would happen, but I would hope GGG has better coding chops than this.)

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CCR5 wrote:

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Twiiik wrote:

Now over to my pet peeve and totally off topic!

It is about knowing how programming project operates from inside.
That additional code for manipulating needs to be written, tested and maintained.
Nobody wants it.
And if you screw up with this code, you'll get bugs like that guy on stream with 300 uniques at the same time.

Why would you ever need to dynamically manipulate unique drops probabilities
if you could just set flat probability roll and forget?

Creator of the thread doesn't even pass basic sanity test in my book:

"ive recently had the feeling that RNG is being ACTIVELY MANIPULATED to create situations. Like several race teams getting the items they want/need and see who uses em better, forcing dsyncing in certain situations"

so there must a person in the team assigned to watch races (what if they don't stream? what if timezones are different?) and press buttons and desync people (in real time, suuuuure, ever heard of stream delays?) and you pay money to that person.

For what exactly would you pay money?