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I'm very late in this discussion, but... (1) Only easy (2) 3 to 6 (3) Very clear (4) So-so. I agree with the other comments about making the mages a little more intriguing. (5) Well, the first time I played this, I did just what everyone else did. I found the scenario moderately difficult for me (es...

OK... I decided to look into the data of the campaign I currently have running. I don't have all my tools automated yet, so some of the calculations were done by hand. I only had to do the numbers for 30% and 40% hitting to determine that there is definitely something wrong (but it's been a long tim...

Yes, it's all very mysterious. Unfortunately, as you said, there are far few trials to determine if there is any statistical issue here. However, in my game there are 13 4-miss occurrances with an expected number of 8.17. In your game there are 52 observed versus 32.84 expected. In both cases this i...

Thanks, ott for the code. I have similar code as well and have found similar results so far. I *did* however get a game with 9 60%+ misses in a row and I have the replay file this time. I died (due to really stupid strategy, not an unfair RNG :-)), so I don't have a save file. I haven't gotten aroun...

I could definitely do that. But I'm not sure it would help matters. I don't have a replay file (curse my stupidity). What I've decided to do is to work on a set of tools for validating the RNG from the data in the save files. Then I can just play a lot and look for problems. One question... I'm look...

OK. Now I'm confused!!!! I took a look at my save file from the aformentioned 13 miss game. The data does not corroborate my observation. So either I missed some hits or some things aren't being saved. My guess is the former... :evil: Damn! Perhaps a tempest in a teapot. I swear I must be losing it....

Don't get me wrong: I welcome investigation into this. However, I'm sure you can appreciate that when I've been told (and have seen developers of other games told) that the RNG seems to produce extraordinary/bad/unfair (as in yes, some players think the RNG is on the side of the AI, and favors it) ...

I apologize if I'm bringing up an old topic. I think I may have been a little put off by the suggestion that I'm imagining the problem. Now, I'm the first to admit that these streaks may just be the luck of the draw. However, I think they warrant some investigation, if only by me. The problem is tha...

Well... that didn't take long... All of the calls to rand() are of the form: my Result = rand()%100; This is *not* portable across platforms and will not work properly on most systems. rand() uses an algorithm that is known to create poor distributions in the lower oder bits. As per the man page (qu...

So, either you're really unlucky, or YOU have a problem. I have never had anything like this happen to me, so it's probably not a bug in Wesnoth. Are you implying I have a problem with reality ;-) I'm not saying that it's impossible, merely improbable. Clearly some people don't notice a problem. Ju...

I have also had a nagging feeling that there was something wrong with the chances to hit. So last night I decided to play through a new campaign and record all my hits to see if I could notice anything strange (like it over-representing them in the stats or something). I didn't find anything per se,...