Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
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Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
Ever hear you can polish a turd but at the end of the day what do you have? Stop trying to make the site pretty and make it work! Stop with the stupid third party dice routine and work for your money. I'll write the code if you want. But stop the BS CC. Delete me now.... 
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Re: Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
Do you think you can write a better random number generator than any other PRNG that exists?spelt wrote:Ever hear you can polish a turd but at the end of the day what do you have? Stop trying to make the site pretty and make it work! Stop with the stupid third party dice routine and work for your money. I'll write the code if you want. But stop the BS CC. Delete me now....
Re: Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
I do not believe CC is using a random number generator. If they are then it is somehow being manipulated or corrupted.
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Re: Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
They are but they only pay for x number of random numbers. And the number of dice rolls needed for this site is far greater than x. Hence why it looks so bad.loutil wrote:I do not believe CC is using a random number generator. If they are then it is somehow being manipulated or corrupted.
Perhaps someone more smart than me can explain this better

Re: Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
Let me try...yabba dabba ding dong...and a wahoozy doozy toozy.
Works the same for all of us (well most of us).
Fixed or not, we will continue to use these lousy (not so random) dice!
Works the same for all of us (well most of us).
Fixed or not, we will continue to use these lousy (not so random) dice!
Re: Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
Using only x number of random numbers would not account for what we are seeing as the sample is large enough to avoid this consistent variance of the number 1. Further, the site claims they are constantly acquiring new strings of random numbers but the variance never seems to change.lord voldemort wrote:They are but they only pay for x number of random numbers. And the number of dice rolls needed for this site is far greater than x. Hence why it looks so bad.loutil wrote:I do not believe CC is using a random number generator. If they are then it is somehow being manipulated or corrupted.
Perhaps someone more smart than me can explain this better
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Re: Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
Thats not what I was lead to believe.loutil wrote:Using only x number of random numbers would not account for what we are seeing as the sample is large enough to avoid this consistent variance of the number 1. Further, the site claims they are constantly acquiring new strings of random numbers but the variance never seems to change.lord voldemort wrote:They are but they only pay for x number of random numbers. And the number of dice rolls needed for this site is far greater than x. Hence why it looks so bad.loutil wrote:I do not believe CC is using a random number generator. If they are then it is somehow being manipulated or corrupted.
Perhaps someone more smart than me can explain this better

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Re: Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
For all of you crying... Bye, GTFO
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Re: Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
Variation at one extreme (rather than both ends or the middle) suggests to me not that the random numbers are nonrandom, but rather that there is a rounding error in the way they are processed.loutil wrote:Using only x number of random numbers would not account for what we are seeing as the sample is large enough to avoid this consistent variance of the number 1. Further, the site claims they are constantly acquiring new strings of random numbers but the variance never seems to change.lord voldemort wrote:They are but they only pay for x number of random numbers. And the number of dice rolls needed for this site is far greater than x. Hence why it looks so bad.loutil wrote:I do not believe CC is using a random number generator. If they are then it is somehow being manipulated or corrupted.
Perhaps someone more smart than me can explain this better
Either way, it makes no practical difference to the player. You are just as likely to see the 1s on defense as on offense.
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Re: Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
spelt wrote:Ever hear you can polish a turd but at the end of the day what do you have? Stop trying to make the site pretty and make it work! Stop with the stupid third party dice routine and work for your money. I'll write the code if you want. But stop the BS CC. Delete me now....
this post is hilarious,
thank you spelt, made me laugh
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Re: Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
Judging from your rank, you seem to be manipulating the dice generator code as surely you aren't that good a player.loutil wrote:I do not believe CC is using a random number generator. If they are then it is somehow being manipulated or corrupted.

Re: Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
From Wikipedia/Random.org:
And for anyone who hasn't seen the start of all this: http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewto ... 6&t=194323
I don't know how much CC is paying (or even if they're paying), but 1,000,000 bits probably doesn't last long on this site. If they're smart, they would save old sets of data and whiten it with new data in different combinations to generate as many random numbers as they need for free.To make sure nobody places unfair demands on the system, a limit to the number of bits supplied to a particular IP Address is enforced. Every 24 hours, up to 200,000 bits are added to each IP Address' quota. Once the quota has reached 1,000,000 bits, no more will be added. One can buy different amounts of quota top-offs in order to raise their quota, in which case the 1,000,000-bit limit is no longer enforced. The price ranges from between $1 and $5 per million bits.
And for anyone who hasn't seen the start of all this: http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewto ... 6&t=194323
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Re: Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
i like the dice.. I'm generally a fan of the dice...
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Re: Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
Buy money-counting machines or pay your friends in beer to count the money--while fixing the dice.
This way, all will be happy.
This way, all will be happy.
Re: Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
Someone say something about beer? 
Bollocks.
Bollocks.
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Re: Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
I've always wondered how someone can tell that something isn't random. Isn't part of randomization not having an expected outcome, yet you seem to have one?loutil wrote:I do not believe CC is using a random number generator. If they are then it is somehow being manipulated or corrupted.
taking a break from cc, will be back sometime in the future.
Re: Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
One way to tell that something isn't random is if all outcomes do not have an equal probability of occurring.patrickaa317 wrote:I've always wondered how someone can tell that something isn't random. Isn't part of randomization not having an expected outcome, yet you seem to have one?loutil wrote:I do not believe CC is using a random number generator. If they are then it is somehow being manipulated or corrupted.

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Re: Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
Your screenshot of my dice is what actually occurred which is different than an equal probability of occurring.degaston wrote:One way to tell that something isn't random is if all outcomes do not have an equal probability of occurring.patrickaa317 wrote:I've always wondered how someone can tell that something isn't random. Isn't part of randomization not having an expected outcome, yet you seem to have one?loutil wrote:I do not believe CC is using a random number generator. If they are then it is somehow being manipulated or corrupted.
taking a break from cc, will be back sometime in the future.
Re: Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
I would have bet money that you had rolled 1's less than 1/6th of the time before I even looked at your stats. If you're interested, you can check out the thread I referenced earlier. Or you can start picking out people at random and see if you can find anyone (with more than about 100 games) who hasn't rolled 1's much less than any other number. You might also notice that 2's and 4's are rolled the most by almost everyone.patrickaa317 wrote:Your screenshot of my dice is what actually occurred which is different than an equal probability of occurring.
Re: Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
It matters little what you roll. The important point is what is rolled against you. The die are rubbish on this site, they always have been and always will be
Re: Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
I'll never understand how you how 2000+ games played, but less than 25,000 rolls.Fruitcake wrote:It matters little what you roll. The important point is what is rolled against you. The die are rubbish on this site, they always have been and always will be
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Re: Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE.
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Re: Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
^^^^^^^^^degaston wrote:I would have bet money that you had rolled 1's less than 1/6th of the time before I even looked at your stats. If you're interested, you can check out the thread I referenced earlier. Or you can start picking out people at random and see if you can find anyone (with more than about 100 games) who hasn't rolled 1's much less than any other number. You might also notice that 2's and 4's are rolled the most by almost everyone.patrickaa317 wrote:Your screenshot of my dice is what actually occurred which is different than an equal probability of occurring.
This
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Re: Stop counting your money and fix the dice!
I get that the dice work this way and could definitely be improved but love when people say "I expect something different than what actually happened, therefore it is not random."loutil wrote:^^^^^^^^^degaston wrote:I would have bet money that you had rolled 1's less than 1/6th of the time before I even looked at your stats. If you're interested, you can check out the thread I referenced earlier. Or you can start picking out people at random and see if you can find anyone (with more than about 100 games) who hasn't rolled 1's much less than any other number. You might also notice that 2's and 4's are rolled the most by almost everyone.patrickaa317 wrote:Your screenshot of my dice is what actually occurred which is different than an equal probability of occurring.
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