Gradual Reduction in MF Effectiveness

[Crystalion]

When you use the -seed command there is no external time calls of any sort (for the seed part) since it uses the specified seed instead.

As I mentioned, holding -seed and repeatedly starting fresh games with restored (character) saves still results in differences in shrines and quest drops (norm HF tested). Since my understanding of your code reading theories doesn't really explain the observed results, we get my "debugging" desire to either audit the rnd usage or slyly hold the known variables to random seed generation constant, as a means of verifying or falsifying the assertions about the seeds usage, under -seed conditions.

It has always been my habit in debugging to verify "the obvious", when that is simple to do. As you say, when using -seed holding the external timer calls to (say) zero should not have any effect. This is actually precisely why one would do such a test.

It's a pity (for some other testing) that, at present, single player can not replicate exactly the same (initial) game (conditions) via -seed (and restored saves). But not terribly important. Thanks again for the info.