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Old September 6th, 2012, 04:12 PM

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Default Re: Patrolling and Unrest

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Originally Posted by momfreeek View Post
I think its covered here:
http://dom3.servegame.com/wiki/User:...fect_unrest.3F

"Basically, every patroller will catch 0,5 brigand, but the graph is linear (with 30 patrollers you have the same chance to catch, say, 0, 10, 20 or 30 brigands). So, its much more random than if each patroller has 50% chance to succeed."
(Excellent link BTW.) Try as a might, I still can't get this (the "linear", the 0.5 catching not being the same as 50%, basically the whole thing). Care to clarify?
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