I have this feeling that, at rent/login base, there is a random spell variable that is set.
On combo charmers, it is very perceptible...
Is it a myth? Or new feature?
2019/06/08 17:18, Padan:
To be honest, I think it's kinda true with thieves, too. Sometimes I fail every single stab on silly mobs, rent, relog, and don't fail anymore. Might just be in my head, but it's nice to see someone else thinking the same.
If this is a feature... I don't like it. Makes me loose precioussss game time to realize the need to rent/log... But maybe it is just a bug.
2019/06/10 12:24, Fieldy:
When I have played my scout, I have also noticed it, but never thought it could be random rent/log thing. Has anyone tried to rent/relog until the random login variable is good? : P
I do it often on Sudo. The wierd thing is that when Im able to easily charm 2 meagles after failing alot and rent/log, my buffing is not that good... Maybe its psycological...
2019/06/11 10:13, Rogon:
One of MUME's best kept secrets have been revealed. It was meant to be a secret advantage for V+ who play mortals, but I might as well tell you; the way to guarantee a good random seed is to typo your password twice before logging on.
2019/06/11 11:41, Elestir:
I doubt it has anything to do with random seed, because MUME probably shares one random number generator for everyone (as well as for NPCs, etc.) - there is just no good reason to use more than one.
But possible explanation is that there is a glitch in backstab-sense code and renting/relogin performs some sort of reset that fixes it. As for spells, I don't know what it could be. What Rato says could be explained if MUME assigned warrior/mage level semi-randomly at login time, but I doubt that is the case (there is no reason for randomness).
Humans are very bad at detecting randomness. We see patterns everywhere.
To know if there is a problem, one should collect statistic of success/failure during a session, doing this for 5-6 months and then seeing if there is some pattern/clusterisation happening.
I guess scripting powtty to get the raw data (a kind of modified xp-counter for casting counter) may be possible.
(No, I'm not volunteering here :-) )
2019/06/11 15:41, Rogon:
Great, everyone can sit back and relax, in 6 months we'll see what Teoli has to say on the matter.
client echoes me % of successfully stored quakes. Usually around average value all the time.
2019/06/12 17:06, Benedictus:
Rogon lets talk later privately about that fullset for good seed thing ok?
2019/06/14 08:39, Arcanum:
Last one on 'who' list gains extra % of exp, remember?
2019/06/14 13:02, Arfang:
And Rogon forgot to mention that we are wasting our V+ time playing level 100 hobbits with all stats at 25, in full shining on test mud and with all these bonuses and V+ random seed it is a bit boring :-)
2019/06/14 18:00, Savu:
I think next 6 months people can play without the weird randomness because Rogon notices that Teoli will be gathering statistics and turned 'Random login spell' off.
Hell yeah, I can tell you that random login behaviour is true! Why? Beacause it works irl too. When I woke up and fucked up a project at work, I did a powernap later that day and everything turned out smooth. So yes, when first login feels like a fail, it's good to restart. Mind-boggling, I know!
Edit: I think it's the lizard people of Bildenberg group controlling magnetic waves with HAARP on flat Earth thus probably affecting Mume logon too.
