LOGIN
User Name
Password
Remember me


Register...Forgot password?
Main menu
Leagues
Gonzaga
Blue Max
Cartagena
Wooden Ships...
King Me!
VampiRing
Forum Message
Previous messagePost on the new forumNext message

City:leeds UK
Personal Data:Male, born: January 20 1972
HomePage or other cool site:http://www.leedswargamesclub.org.uk/
Membership23years 18days ago.
Last Login15years 249days ago.
Last Move15years 328days ago.
Bramley Bomber is currently Offline!Send a mail to Bramley Bomber


Message header
Area/Game:Blue Max
Topic:Rules
Subject:Re: Game enhancement idea and dice roller
Posted by: Bramley Bomber - 20years 160days ago.
Message text
Impailer wrote:
This generality is false. Older computer languages had very rudimentary random number generators that lacked the sophistication to avoid coming up with the same calculation over and over and over. Some of these still exist today! (Case in point, the 'random play feature' in the iPod is not very good.) They did not distribute the numbers evenly over a given number of calculations, as I have recently found out, as applied to a single die. I don't know much about the modern versions of random number generators, nor the one used for Blue Max. It may or may not be based on older algorithms. It's amazing how much of the old stuff is 'good enough' and carried forward because it's hardly used. This may be the case. I suspect it is, and still believe there is not an equal distribution of numbers over a large number of rolls using this function in the game.

I would still like to see empirical evidence to the contrary.

Impailer


i think that that was the basis for the great plane race in the menu - it shows how often each roll came up over a total of a few thousand rolls, in a fun way. seems that it all averages out to me......... though i am no computer programer or any good at maths, etc!

as an added note would it be possible on the planes race results to do an extra line with all the total rolls of each number displayed to give a greater subject group, (less work for those that want to add them all up)

--- Message edited by Bramley Bomber

Back to the messages list
Messages thread
Posting elapsed timePosted bySubject

20years 164days Impailer [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
20years 162days bltzlfsk Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
20years 162days Bombadil Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
20years 162days Impailer Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
20years 162days Bombadil Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
20years 162days Impailer Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
 20years 162days Bombadil Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
20years 161days bltzlfsk Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
 20years 161days Impailer Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
  20years 161days bltzlfsk Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
   20years 161days Impailer Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
    20years 161days bltzlfsk Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
    20years 161days Lawtygrr Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
    20years 161days Templars Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
    20years 161days Impailer Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
    20years 161days Ashtar Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
     20years 160days Impailer Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
      20years 160days Bramley Bomber Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
      20years 160days Impailer Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
      20years 160days Impailer Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
      20years 160days Ashtar Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
       20years 160days Impailer Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
        20years 159days Ashtar Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
         20years 159days Impailer Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
    20years 160days dr.falko Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
20years 160days Impailer Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
20years 160days flying_neko Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
 20years 160days flying_neko Re: [BM][RULES] Game enhancement idea and dice roller
Next thread
Posting elapsed timePosted bySubject

20years 159days Nick [SYS] On rolling dices
20years 159days Impailer Re: [SYS] On rolling dices
20years 159days Impailer Re: [SYS] On rolling dices
Previous thread
Posting elapsed timePosted bySubject

20years 162days athos [BM][BUG] game 178809 is stuck
20years 162days ksnake Re: [BM][BUG] game 178809 is stuck
20years 160days ksnake Re: [BM][BUG] game 178809 is stuck
20years 159days Nick Re: [BM][BUG] game 178809 is stuck
 20years 159days ksnake Re: [BM][BUG] game 178809 is stuck
Page generated in: 21.48438 milliseconds.