02-27-2004, 02:51 AM
There is a hypothesis that you get less "good" objects later in repeated MF runs.
Upon reflection, it seems a lot of people are basically assumng that hypothesis is false while discussing how to test it. While I agree, that's a dangerous stance to take while designing the test. Let's take a minute, and assume that the hypothesis is true. That could be a result of a deliberate action by Blizzard, or an "accident."
If the action was deliberate, then Blizzard appears to be hiding it. It's not in the open server that Jarulf can find, and it has not been announced. With that in mind, there was probably a little effort spent in making it difficult to see. If I were in charge of the project, I would be more sophisticated than the simple scheme I proposed above. (That scheme could probably be coded in an afternoon.) However, it would be basically similar to that scheme, and the bottom line is that combining high durability items with uniques would never detect what was happening.
If the action was not deliberate, then it seems the obvious place to look would be the RNG. On that subject, to answer Jarulf's issue, when I speak of time, I am speaking of repeated calls to the RNG - not use of a time variable. In other words, the ratio of HD items to uniques could rise as the RNG was called more often (which would then be later in time.) This would be an artifact of the particular mathematical function used for the RNG, and how the loot routines are coded. Since it wa an accident, it could have worked the other way. (The loot could get better the longer the runs go.)
Frankly, I am interested, but not enough to to the actual tests myself. :lol: If someone is interested enough to actually do the tests, though, they should not assume that everything is working as they think.
Upon reflection, it seems a lot of people are basically assumng that hypothesis is false while discussing how to test it. While I agree, that's a dangerous stance to take while designing the test. Let's take a minute, and assume that the hypothesis is true. That could be a result of a deliberate action by Blizzard, or an "accident."
If the action was deliberate, then Blizzard appears to be hiding it. It's not in the open server that Jarulf can find, and it has not been announced. With that in mind, there was probably a little effort spent in making it difficult to see. If I were in charge of the project, I would be more sophisticated than the simple scheme I proposed above. (That scheme could probably be coded in an afternoon.) However, it would be basically similar to that scheme, and the bottom line is that combining high durability items with uniques would never detect what was happening.
If the action was not deliberate, then it seems the obvious place to look would be the RNG. On that subject, to answer Jarulf's issue, when I speak of time, I am speaking of repeated calls to the RNG - not use of a time variable. In other words, the ratio of HD items to uniques could rise as the RNG was called more often (which would then be later in time.) This would be an artifact of the particular mathematical function used for the RNG, and how the loot routines are coded. Since it wa an accident, it could have worked the other way. (The loot could get better the longer the runs go.)
Frankly, I am interested, but not enough to to the actual tests myself. :lol: If someone is interested enough to actually do the tests, though, they should not assume that everything is working as they think.