Dice Functionality by The Velociraptor

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[lean folio]

We just updated balanced blitz quite recently, true random I don't think has been changed in forever (ages) - it doesn't change how often people complain about dice regardless, so changing it is more about fixing known issues with estimation technique rather than trying more new algorithms.
If it was able to shift the needle for negative reviews on dice it'd be worthwhile, but it doesn't (people lose battles, people hate losing, people write bad reviews about RNG because they hate losing) - unless it's an entirely subtraction based (no RNG) dice, it'll still get as much hate regardless of what we do with it

[quasi swift]

Thanks for responding. Do you have any info as to why it feels very pre-programmed… not enough to predict but enough to sense it cycling in a very repetitive way… like I notice there’ll be a very good luck run and then a very bad luck run of dice rolls, ie it feels stilted and unnatural like the same pattern looping over and over. Do you know if it is indeed one RNG sequence repeating, or are there novel sequences continually being algorithmically generated/ fed into the system? BTW, I’m not motivated by loss rate, I genuinely just think the dice rolls don’t approximate “natural” randomness. But I concede I don’t play any other RNG oriented games so this might be par for the course for RNG.

[lean folio]

Humans are very, very bad at interpreting probability - only way you can really get an unbiased view on it would be to graph your dice rolls (both for and against) over time - and see if you're getting any structured patterns that would conflict with what RNG aims for

Even things like "sometimes winning/sometimes losing" you may be rolling higher dice in the losses - so I'm not sure how you'd bestest compare the victory/loss results to be equal without looking at the individual dice outcomes. Could maybe graph your expected success rates against actual success rates, you'd not expect to see clear consistency until you've got a lot of each either way