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Rule 30 is of special interest because it is chaotic (Wolfram 2002, p. 871), with central column given by 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, ... (Sloane's A051023). In fact, this rule is used as the random number generator used for large integers in Mathematica (Wolfram 2002, p. 317).
Q: How do the dice work?
A: The dice are based on high quality random numbers from random.org. The numbers are read from a large file containing columns of numbers from 1 to 6, in the format A1 A2 A3 D1 D2. When the dice are rolled, the game engine reads a line from the file and discards it. The appropriate numbers are used and the others are ignored. The file contains 500,000 lines of dice rolls and is re-loaded when all the lines are used up. As of July 2006 we consume 68,500 lines of dice rolls per day.
Bonquida wrote:Just because the name of the website is random.org doesn't mean the dice are actually random. All I know is that if the dice in CC are random, then the ones in real life must not be; seeing as how dice in cc work nothing like dice in real life.
Bonquida wrote:I should win more often attacking than the defender in 3 v. 2 situations and I'm going to see if that is happening.
rocksolid wrote: Attacking 2 armies from a country with 3 - i.e. only two attacking armies - has a very low probability of success, again without having anything to do with the dice generator.
Bonquida wrote:43% of people are not satisfied with the dice. This is less than half. It is also a lot of people! People who are not satisfied with a basic, important element of the gameplay. That would be like 43% of people saying the brakes on their car don't work well. Would car manufacturers still produce the same brakes if 43% of their customers had a problem with it? Probably, but SHOULD THEY? nah, not really.
Anyway, it might just be human psychology that is ticking me off, so I just started to tally all of my wins vs. loss attacking. I should win more often attacking than the defender in 3 v. 2 situations and I'm going to see if that is happening.
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