How Designers Engineer Luck into Video Games

Re:How Designers Engineer Luck into Video Games by minimaxir on Thursday January 12, 2017 @10:13PM (#13388125)

Incidentially it still happens in modern MMOs when the developers forget to put items in a boss loot table. (Can't black-box QA a 1/1000 drop!)

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Re:How Designers Engineer Luck into Video Games by obstinate on Friday January 13, 2017 @02:47AM (#13389138)

Makes you wonder if something like Estamel's Modified Adaptive Invulnerability Field is rare because the loot tables are broken. (This is an Eve online item that is rarely seen. Only two ships have ever died with one equipped at least as of a year ago. Its rarity is such that it's worth 24B ISK -- or the equivalent of $2,000 in ingame currency.)

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Re:How Designers Engineer Luck into Video Games by ralfd on Friday January 13, 2017 @07:59AM (#13390447)

Maybe the ships don't die with it as they are invulnerable?

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Re:How Designers Engineer Luck into Video Games by im3w1l on Thursday January 12, 2017 @10:45PM (#13388255)

If 3rd parties can build bots, then they should be able to too :P

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Re:How Designers Engineer Luck into Video Games by pbhjpbhj on Friday January 13, 2017 @07:43AM (#13390364)

Surely a unit test of the code would find such an error?

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