Feature request: true random dice

Um, not sure where @aardvarkpepper is going but I’m with @redrum.

The dice rolls in TripleA using the internal dice have always seemed “natural” a bad roll and a good roll here and there but nothing that doesn’t seem unnatural.

The choice of dice algorithm in AA42O is just bad. I frequently get zero hits in situations where it would be 5-10% of that happening. At this point I’m playing enough games and rolling enough dice that these statistically anomalies should be, just that anomalies.

If the team stands by their PRNG algorithm, then show me my lifetime deviation on dice rolls. I.e., what I rolled vs. what the probability was.

An maybe, I have played enough games that these bad rolls are actually meaningful. So just let me know; it’s also a fun feature to encourage the gamblers fallacy. :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing: “Red just hit on the roullette table 10 times in a row, there’s no chance it will hit agai … damn.”

It would also be cool to see the global expected vs. actual dice results as well.

@aardvarkpepper Aw, you did that to go that far. :cry: I was just a little confused is all.

@redrum said in Feature request: true random dice:

I’m not sure it really matters and to some extent you’ll always have people complain about getting screwed by dice no matter what you do.

Yeah but still, I’ve played several fast solo games, to test out ideas, and a bunch online and my impression is overall positive. I think the best way to overcome is to show users where they stand in terms of rolls. How many and how far outside of the average are they.

I’ve had it with these dice. 2 rolls 4 tanks each roll, all misses. This is worse than my worse rolls IRL. I’m seriously about to rage quit all my games.

And my opponent roll over 50% on infantry only twice in a row.

Effing seriously HOW MANY 99.5% BATTLES DO I NEED TO LOSE? If I go into 100 battles at 99.5%, over the long term, I SHOULD LOSE ONE FOR EVERY 200.

Okay let’s get to a more significant number, 1000. I should have lost 5 battles at 99.5%. I have not had 1000 battles, I’ve lost at least a dozen of them. There’s something wrong. Even at 2000 or 3000 I’m way ahead of the curve on losses.

It’s not fun if I have to go into every battle at over 99.9%. And even then I’m probably going to lose 10 out of 1000.

NO! I do not accept these hits. (This was the same result twice in a row; actually the previous roll, they got 7 hits).

@JuliusBorisovBeamdog

• Some monitoring needs to be put into place for dice rolls.
• The PRNG algorithm needs to be updated to a less problematic one.

I hypothesize that you’re losing players from repeated bad luck. Maybe the number is low but without monitoring, there’s no way to know. Heck, I run this site and I’m probably going to take a long break from playing after this.

@redrum Yes, I could do that. I don’t really want to play Global. I would like some Anniversary games though.

And when I do play TripleA, internal dice roller FTW.

We all know this is a game of chance. We all know that the dice can “turn on you.” All of us here have actually played the board game IRL dozens to hundreds of times (the same is not true of a majority of the Beamdog team; Trent is one exception). We know what bad rolls look like. We’ve rolled 15 physical dice and got one hit.

We even know that we can have unreasonable opinions about PRNG and start to become overly sensitive to results.

As @redrum has pointed out, not all PRNG are created equal and if Beamdog is using the problematic algorithm, why continue? If users are complaining why not be more transparent. TripleA has features to address this showing how well or poorly you rolled compared to average. (Now why would they do that? :thinking_face:)

The other thing, which I think you might already know. People sometimes come here to vent as a form of therapy after being traumatized by dice. :wink:

Go here to complain about dice: https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/34180/prng-dice-support-group-and-ranting

Please keep this thread and others for constructive, actionable feedback and ideas. That includes me.

I put in a support request to implement Mersenne Twister.

There also should be some dice testing in place. A&A players are super sensitive to dice rolls. You don’t want churn because people believe the PRNG to be bad; you need to prove it to them it’s not.