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A comment on No Man’s Sky – Procedural Content. Parent comment

Re:No Man’s Sky – Procedural Content by 0xdada on Monday October 17, 2016 @07:05PM (#12730643)
What do you think about using Gaussian distribution for random generation to make it possible to discover rare species (or whatever you generate randomly)? Could a Gaussian distribution "spice things up"?
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Re:No Man’s Sky – Procedural Content by monk_e_boy on Monday October 17, 2016 @07:47PM (#12730870)
Well if you are going to do that you may as well give them a reward every 10th planet they reach.
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