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Re:Why is quality of pseudorandom number generators important? by arjie on Thursday February 06, 2014 @09:52AM (#7190641)
It may be deceitful, but it makes for a better game. Seeing your five hit attack miss five times at 5% miss chance per attack will induce true frustration. Battle for Wesnoth doesn't care. It will be honest, and you will scream in anger.
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Re:Why is quality of pseudorandom number generators important? by gabemart on Thursday February 06, 2014 @11:14AM (#7191059) 

  > Seeing your five hit attack miss five times at 5% miss
  > chance per attack will induce true frustration.
I was curious, so I worked out the chances of this happening. For a given five hit attack the chance is 0.00003125%, or 1 in 3.2 million. So yes, I imagine it is very frustrating, but it happens incredibly rarely.
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