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Old March 27th, 2004, 04:31 PM

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Default Re: Best (CD Bootable?) Linux Distro for Dominions?

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Originally posted by Cainehill:
Somewhat ugly, but not as counter-intuitive as using non-stochastic dice rolls.
Actually, if the stochastic dice rolls were ok, there would be no problem. Battle replay is based on recalculating the battle resolution, which requires dice roll to be deterministic. It is not a problem by itself, because the RNG Illwinter is using (and most of RNGs I guess) produces fixed sequence of numbers for a given seed. The problem came out, because additional stochastic element was added by order of subexpression evaluation.
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