> > Along these lines, a friend of mine who also works in the gaming industry > said that they often use dice that are generated in something like the > following fashion: The computer internally creates a 36-card deck, each with > one of the 36 possible dice rolls. Then it deals out 18 cards from this deck > to get 18 dice rolls. Then it reshuffles and starts over to get the next 18 > rolls.
What you describe is a completely biased scheme. Your friend’s company maybe implemented it in order to avoid trolls complaining about them cheating? > > With this scheme, you never get (for example) three double 6's in a row. > Rarely does anyone notice anything strange about the dice, and if people are > not told what is going on, there are typically far fewer complaints about the > dice. A set of truly random real-world dice may produce subsequent double sixes until the heat death of the universe. This is called randomness. Randomness has no memory, remember? > > I mentioned this concept on BGOnline once (a "hardcore" BG community) and > predictably, they hated it. So that's another piece of evidence to support > what Rich Heimlich said. They predictably disapproved your improvements, yes. This is called rationalism, also know as common sense. Others have already mentioned it: You can run gnubg with your own personally, manually rolled dice from your own backgammon set. Try it out! <spoiler-alert>You will continue losing!</spoiler-alert> Tim, it’s 2017, and considering the state of the art of hard- and software it is absolutely normal that artificial intelligence beats human intelligence in games like backgammon or chess on a more than regular basis. If you think that gnubg has to cheat for beating you, then become a professional backgammon player and be rich! <spoiler-alert>You will be broke in no time at all!</spoiler-alert> If you you are positive that gnubg cheats, why not install another software and troll their support forum for a change? Regards! — Oh, Lord, please let it rain brains! _______________________________________________ Bug-gnubg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg
