bad dice

ive noticed lately that my dice have been more than just bad, almost all the time.ive run lots of tests through the odds calculater and my dice for a long time have been really letting me down.my luck when i was a lower rank was alot better and ive noticed that lower ranked players seem to have luck that i could only dream of lately. if the standard odds of winning are just over evens (in my favor) how come i lose 8 or 9 times out of ten. its really frustrating!

how many weeks have you been getting bad dice?

me too, i have lost many games since 2 months from bad dice vexer, and the other players in the same game witness that, i used to have advantage over them then suddenly the dice ruined it all..

I fell from command sergeant to sergeant and that made me stop playing and reduce my games , then i went to two player games just Consolation for myself , and now its better but still facing this many times , like loosing 18 vs 3 , or 20 vs 6 .... etc

Agreed, I just lost a capitals game in the second turn because my 15 troops were killed with only a loss of 4 for the attacker.

I think this should not happen due to using a random function. However, is there a point at which you lose more often? I.e. do you only have bad luck during attacking, defending or both? Because if it is just one of the two cases, there might be a mistake in some kind of calculation.

As Vexer said: it is interesting to know when this started, as there was a slight change to how dice work to make them faster, but that should not have changed anything.

Well, I remember having some bad dice, and I also remember ppl having really good dice.

But mostly I dont remember anything special about my dice, so probably they will be just fine.

a about 2 months, maybe a little more.ive also cut down how much i play at times.it used to be more fun

well I hate to tell you this but your bad luck has nothing to do with the code for the site.

Contrary to what Cireon said about the dice getting a small modification, the dice were completely changed 8 days ago. The dice used to be based off of measured truly random changes in the atmosphere. Now they are pseudo-random and based off a computer's simulation of randomness. The change was made because the truly random dice from random.org were stored in the database and the database server was getting overwhelmed. Although a computer can only simulate randomness it can come pretty close and for our purposes it's close enough.

What i find interesting is that you claim bad dice even after the dice were completely changed. Either you really do have horrible luck or your perception is the problem. I'd bet millions that it's your perception. If I had unlimited time I could prove it using the game logs.

yes likely to be my perception.The bad times stick in ur head more than the good times i spose.As it goes the dice have seemed a bit better in the last week

That crap happens to all of us. Although the bad rolls do seem to come in bunches. Or maybe its anger over the 1st bad roll, then compounded by being angry and over agressive. My suggestion, buy some dice and a hammer. When you get bad rolls, smash a die or two to make you feel better. =)

lol

Well I wouldn't care what was done to them, they in no way simulate real dice...I have never had these kinds of rolls on the board..Yes there may be a string of bad luck, but i just took my turn in 10, 24 hour games and in almost all of them it cost me 3 men to just kill 1...Tell me how that fits in to randomness????????

also 8 to 6 not even kill one, not one. I know the odds are barely in my favor at 64%, but to not kill one man...I mean COME ON!!! especially after it's costing me 3 guys to barely get a card in the last 10 turns.. SOMETHING IS WRONG!!!!! Honestly I feel that whatever strategy I use doesn't work, it makes a player so frustrated that I really don't even want to take any more turns because at what cost will it be for me to just get a card.

I should not have to have double the amount of men to win a game. But with the dice here it does seem like that is necessary.

Well, the only solution I can think about is writing a simulator that just simulates a lot of dice rolls using the existing system to see if there is something wrong. I haven't looked at the code, but I feel there shouldn't be any problem at all with using the code as we have it now (if it is properly written, that is).

Having a lot of losses in one turn doesn't mean that you will have better chances of winning the next fight easier. Chances of losing armies stay the same over time, so it is well possible to have a bad day. Overall, you should roll all numbers on the die the same amount of rolls and repeating the experiment (roll and roll and roll and...) should therefore eventually result in the amount of victories and defeats to be the same (if we don't take into account the advantage given on a tied roll).

I should probably add that I do agree with both brewdog's and ODG's theories, they do seem hard to stop when they start and once the bad dice starts it seems to follow you, which HAS to be obviously at that point when it's just all in my head.

I am seriously going to keep very good track of my dice. I gotta know the odds are there. I will get back to everyone on this, also maybe my game is off, seems like I have been losing more than usual lately anyway.