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Game does not use true dice roll probabilities. Many, many times I've had 97-99% chance to win and dont.

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How are the numbers generated anyway? Can SMG enlighten us? And since this is likely to be put into an update, what type of number generator will be implemented? In the end, no computer algorithm to generate numbers is ever really random. It has to have some sort of basis, such as time. One website, random.org uses slight fluctuations in weather (realtime data) to determine its generated numbers. That's about as random as you can get. Probably more random than rolling dice.

Is the blitz code any different than rolling one at a time? I have noticed the blitz with large armies takes a bit to compute and will lag the game, so this suggests it's more than just selecting a random overall result and I think it's actually rolling all of the dice rolls one by one in the background. So it shouldn't be any different. I get burned sometimes but i am aware of potential bad luck so I know when to use Blitz and when not to. Sometimes time forces me to blitz when I shouldnt though.

It would be nice to reset our dice statistics. Like with a car odometer. Show me the total but allow me to see what they were for a particular game or whenever I last hit the reset button. that'd be cool to see how bad I rolled on one game vs the obvious 16% across the board that everyone sees after a few games. I had one account that was skewed a little bit on the low side for a while.

Implemented!  Excellent.  My weekly family players will want to update ASAP.  Am I right to assume that when it's ready for release we will see the notification when we start it up on our Android machines?  The other new features are very neat too.  

Justin,

That's not how physical dice work.  They don't guarantee 16% within any limited time period, like a turn, or a game, or ever a dozen games.  16.66667% is what we EXPECT to see over many many roles of the dice, perhaps several thousand.  Dice have no memory.  There is no way that the dice know that you have been rolling extra 1's during a game, much less any way they can fix that in the rest of the game.

That is correct. Odds/statistics are after many, many, many iterations. And it doesn't change the outcome roll to roll. I have noticed since the new algorithm that I've had a lot more large attacks where I get a really bad outcome. I actually watched it happen to everyone in the same game, constantly losing 11+ men when attacking a 3. I don't blame the algorithm yet, but a few of my games have been beyond normal since the update. I assume coincidence until I see a long term pattern.

 

Well, if everyone is rolling extra ones, it's not "unfair." But it is very surprising to see everyone on the map suddenly lose big attacks that you'd think they'd easily win. I had one game where everyone got their big army, started owning the map and would lose out big time on one of the blitz attacks. I'm talking like 40 armies losing against 10 kind of attacks. I've witnessed a major increase in high losses on some attacks and watch others bite the dust in the same game which has been unusual although not always impossible to happen.

Also, in one game I had 2 manual rolls where both me and the defender all rolled 1's. That doesn't happen often, or ever and it was twice in a game. I'm usually using blitz so that's crazy.

Anyway. It's certainly making for a less predictable game. I used to feel confident blowing through people knowing that on average, the attacker does better than 50% of the kills. Now I'm used to needing well above the average to be sure and I'm still getting burned sometimes. Same as the defender of course but I have no choice in that.

 

Forgot to add, I checked on one of my accounts with 100+ games. All of my accounts in the past have had 16% across the board. This one now has 17% on the 1's after about maybe 10 games. "excited" to see how much this % increases over time :)