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[Vandiablo]

There's no easy answer. I had expected a drop in shrine counts for level 2, since space had to be allocated for the butcher, but it turned out not to have any less than the other levels. The problem in researching this is that you can only count games where you've cleared levels 1 through 8 completely, and this takes time, so my sample size wasn't high enough to detect small variations. There may be small variations, but in my case, the only level that performed differently was level 4, which overall had a noticeably lower count than the others. What I was really looking for at the time was whether the different shrines were more likely on certain levels. (I think they were well-spread IIRC.) I suppose if I had played 1000 games, level 4 would probably have caught up-- in fact, I think that my level 4 thing was not really statistically significant, and I almost didn't mention it.

For a definitive answer, we would want Jarulf to answer based on his reading of the program logic.

I came across some of my old Diablo notes the other day, I'll pay more attn when I go thru that area again.