Drop rates, loss runs and transparency
None of what follows is new, but I hope it encourages EA to have a think about how they handle artificially stochastic functions in the game, and gives some of you a bit more info about how to gain d...
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"Silleck;864998" wrote:
From what I noticed it's extremely streaky...In all parts of the game, including drop rates
That's randomness for you - clumpy as hell. In fact, you can tell a truly random sequence of 1s and 0s from a human generated one - the human generated "random" string is usually more evenly distributed, less clumpy and fewer long runs than the really random sequences.
In short: If you think something looks random, it probably isn't. If it looks more streaky, it probably is.
