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This reminds me of the lesson I once had about what 'random' is - I was shown various patterns and asked which were random, then was revealed that some were actual random patterns while some were patterns that humans perceive to be random - and sure enough it was those which I had thought were the random ones. The point of the lesson being we humans don't perceive actual random patterns as random at all - we perceive them as being "loaded dice", so to speak. For us to perceive a pattern as random, what it actually has to be is 'fair'.

That being said, computer random number algorithms are far from truly random too.

True enough. They often suffer from serial correlation. This occurs because the outcome of the next event is influenced by the outcome of the previous event. However, just because you get runs of bad (and good) luck in Ryzom, does not mean the system overall is unfair. It remains "fair" so long as the bad and good runs balance out properly. Fairness should be a requirement in computer "randomizers", even if true randomness continues to elude us. :p

A quick report on the use of 14 bags of mats on making heavy armor (approx150-160 pieces).

I got 16 boosts in about equal amounts of hp and stamina. While that is still not a large sample, I believe it to be sufficient to tell the difference between 10% hits and 5% hits, and it appears that the 10% is on the money.

--- Bittty
Associate Researcher, NTCS.