**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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Happy to help. Also, if it makes you feel better, when you get really horrible random rolls you can still blame God for designing mathematics in just the right way to cause the Mersenne Twister to generate just the right numbers to dup your Spider Gwen. Just think about the level of omniscient effort it takes to engineer that result in the universe.
Well I was only about half right soooo
Been programming for some 20 years and I get what you're saying and I agree. Most of those who are calling you crazy or insane are not programmers and certainly aren't going to understand what you're talking about. We programmers often refer to RNG as psuedo random because we know.
You better watch yourself, mister. This is a thread about the crystal algorithm. Don't take a step off-topic or you will be reported by Pharaoh and GroundedWisdom. It is unacceptable to take threads off-topic, and this will be punished severely.
In general, I try to limit my comments to posts, and not posters, unless a poster volunteers to be the topic of discussion. For example, I have no problem with someone asking me if I'm the same DNA3000 from the previous forums: the answer is yes. But if they don't want to be the topic of conversation, I try to tread lightly.
Conversely, I believe abuse of the Flagging for abuse button is itself abuse. People should consider that before pushing that button. The decision on whether the post is abuse, or the reporting of the post is abuse, is entirely within the discretion of the mods, and their decision is subjective and final.
Deescalation all around would probably be beneficial to everyone.
OK then here is where it gets fun.
If we assume that Kabam uses standard micro-payment methods crystal openings function on the server side from what I can see because you can not open a crystal without server communication(if it is not that way it should be made that way for security) so that means that all crystal openings occur under the same server conditions, in the same place, with the same ambient temperature.
server loads and time of day vary, but if it was that simple there would be a leak of how on line by now after 2 years. And each person would be able to find a time of day that suits them to their benefit the one that gives them the "best odds". So the last remaining issue is player names which as far as the system knows is an alphanumeric ID code that is then translated into our game name as an external action, so people can not even choose that, so again we are at luck of the draw.
So unless Kabam were keeping and monitoring spending habits and acting based on that, which they have said they do not, we are back to random.
Unless you want to call Kabam liars the pulls are random or at least "random enough". Everything else is conspiracy theory and confirmation bias.
Are you saying that whenever you open a 4* crystal, the champ you get is the champ that is currently the basic champion in the arena most of the time? Did you actually keep track of how many times out of how many that has happened? Because that's actually never happened to me once.
If you think Kabam is skewing the odds to make that happen deliberately more often than chance would allow, why do you think they would want to do that? That would seem to be completely counter-productive.
We all just got transferred to this new forum. Don't get upset if people ask you who you were in the previous forum. If you'd like to demur, I respect your desire. Just say you don't want to share who you were in the past life or simply don't respond. But don't get all offended that people are trying to reconnect after the migration.
Evidence from this Thread supports a different idea. The mention of the name led to negative comments about the previous Forum. Whatever patterns took place there will not be repeated here. Judging by the opinions stated about Websnatcher, it's not a High School Reunion.
People come here to discuss the game. They don't come here to form cliques and reject other people.
Prejudices don't belong in a game discussion.
On a side note, flagging itself should not be kept anonymous. Anyone who uses it should have to be responsible for their own actions. If I flag someone for using abusive language or for name calling, I have no problems with that person knowing that it is my doing. That is taking accountability for your actions and also people posting stuff should also be responsible for what they post. That in my view is the whole idea of the forum switch.
The problem is not whether people know it was said person. The problem is it leads to more arguments. We're not here to start a war on people based on their concerns. If someone believes something is inappropriate, it's the job of the Moderators to review. Penalizing people for reporting something is a wrong concept.
Your suggestion implies that people need to be exposed when they are concerned about something. How do you define abusing it? Is that someone who repeatedly reports, or someone who is not correct that it was inappropriate? In both cases, people have the right to point something out for review without being reprimanded for it. That's the entire reason we don't Moderate ourselves. All it does is lead to people fighting over who reports what. It needs to be anonymous so the situation doesn't escalate. Not every report leads to punitive measures. Only the ones which are inappropriate. Having it visible in general is a bad idea.
DNA3000, I would actually agree with Crusher on this. I have not kept an accurate record but I can say with confidence that I have seen a much higher drop rate of the basic champion in 4* crystals. This is not just form me either. I see it in our alliance drops. Why would this be?
I also read some of your earlier statements on RNG and I have a question. I know next to nothing about this but I have read reports that some people have been able to figure out the RNG from slot machines and other systems that are supposedly too random for a human to distinguish. How is this possible? Not trying to stir up debate on this. Just asking from curiosity.
On a related note, I have been buying and opening featured 4* crystals since the beginning, and almost every 4* I have are not from the arenas but from opening featured crystals. Yes, I have literally spend hundreds of Odins on the 4* featured champs. I noted that in the early days, I could get the featured champs quite easily, but for the more recent champs, I have been spending a lot more Odins before I could pull them. This leads me to wonder if the odds for featured champs have been deteriorating as more champs are being introduced. Does Kabam keep the odds of drawing the featured champs constant, or do the odds changed as the universe of non-featured champs increase? I could never get an answer.
Again that is your opinion and I don't have to necessarily agree with you. It is true we do not moderate ourselves so this should not give you the right to moderate others. If base on this logic who are you decide if what other people posted are spam or abuse? Should the flag button thus be removed since no one apart from the moderators have a right to moderate anyone else?
Not every report leads to punitive measures. Very true. Hence not everyone who uses the flag button to report others would face retrospective action also unless they constantly abuse it. Hence leaving the flag button visible should not have any bearing on anyone's desire to report something unless they have something to hide.
Kabam has said that they do not monitor spending habits? I know that about a year back there was a way to you could figure out how much you've spent since creating your account. It was something like copying the URL of the 'Support link' in your in game profile (Kabam.force); then inserting the code into a generator.
Again, I'd have to go back into my
old 'Line' archived conversations and find the exact directions. But there was definitely a time where Kabam was definitely monitorig how much players were spending.
Monitoring and acting based on that, keep it in context.
Of course they know how much we've spent. They're the vendor. Lol. Doesn't mean they're altering Crystals to reflect that. Conjecture.
I remember that too.
The believed odds of pulling a 4* from a phc are higher than that and i pulled 2 in the last month.
it's well known nothing is truly random, hence why in they're called pseudo-random number generators.
Generally these are seeded by the current time, which is obviously going to be hard to replicate without going back in time.
You can get lucky in opening quest map crystals with full t4b and/or t4cc but you'll have no luck opening a 5* crystals.