Esteban Delgado
Posts: 31
9/1/2016
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Not that I'm complaining, but six Eyeless Skulls in one day is ridiculous.
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I am Empty
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Diptych
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Posts: 3493
9/1/2016
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If it never returned ridiculous results, it wouldn't be very random, would it?
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Sir Frederick, the Libertarian Esotericist. Lord Hubris, the Bloody Baron.
Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Parelle
Posts: 1084
9/1/2016
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I tried failing a 40% check, and I instead passed it 7 times in a row...
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Parelle, Lady Joseph Marlen. The Singular Librarian. A Midnighter, a Player of the Marvelous.
pages from a dusty bookshop: a badly updated FL changelog | Useful Guidance and Explanations
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sosisqua
Posts: 120
9/1/2016
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Yeah. Proc system is better than Korean random
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Lazy%20Citizen is LOITERING with everyone.
"Through the gate of North, as we make our way to Mr.Candle"
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Vincent Asmund
Posts: 314
9/1/2016
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I've been failing like three or four low-risk checks in a row every once in a while now. I've also failed a straightforward check before but succeeded in very chancy and high-risk challenges.
Huzzah.
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Vincent Åsmund, an ex-Author searching to return to his former glory.
Konstantin Sorokin, a newcomer to the Neath with revolutionary tendencies.
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absimiliard
Posts: 759
9/1/2016
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Never Forget: Any appearances of the RNG favoring you are nothing more than it's attempt to raise your spirits so that when it crushes your heart in it's steely grip next you hurt even more.
Never forget, the RNG is evil.
Never forget.
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"Because, Parabola!" -- the Curious Captain
Eating nightmares from friends -- and I'm easy to befriend.
Absimiliard: the Black Rose of Wolfstack Docks
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folklore364
Posts: 136
9/2/2016
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The RNG is just waiting,and watching. Soon you will fail ten 90% chance or higher in a row. I'm looking at you unfinished business in spite.
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A correspondent who hungers for knowledge. May have doomed london to war with Hell.
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/folklore364
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Grenem
Posts: 2067
9/2/2016
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I have gotten four eyeless skulls in a row... which is good from an epa standpoint, but terrible from a "I want tears of the bazaar, not another 66 echoes in items!" standpoint.
Any appearances of the RNG favoring you are not because it's trying to raise your spirits, but because it picked up the plans for someone else. For instance- you may not be complaining, but my reaction to six eyeless skulls would begin with the words "really? really?" and would probably use up my three-swears budget and involve incoherent growling to boot. For me, eyeless skulls are like when a minnow eats your worm. i'd rather have the bait.
When it gives you coruscating souls in a row, it's because there's some poor fool who wants to see the failure text of the last option who's scheduled for always failing before that point, or succeeding past it, and then it got the schedules swapped. one person's good luck is another person's misfortune.
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Married!:http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/takuza
I will accept all social actions that do not consume free evenings- and i will provide patronage to anyone who requests it, though it will be split between all requesters.
On psudeo-hiatus. Will be inactive and active and fluctuate without warning.
Grinding Favors without cards: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic22266-storylet-favors-grinding.aspx
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absimiliard
Posts: 759
9/2/2016
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I'm telling you, Pure Evil.
No one believes me. I know. But it's true, the RNG is Pure Evil.
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"Because, Parabola!" -- the Curious Captain
Eating nightmares from friends -- and I'm easy to befriend.
Absimiliard: the Black Rose of Wolfstack Docks
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PSGarak
Posts: 834
9/2/2016
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RNGeezus is not a merciful god, nor does he listen to your pitiful prayers. But he is technically a fair god, or at least we think he is, but that is only asymptotically verifiable.
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http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/PSGarak
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Talkes
Posts: 90
9/2/2016
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absimiliard wrote:
the RNG is Pure Evil.
That's where you're massively mistaken - rng is Random Evil. Mostly because a neutral "zero" outcome is considered as a bad one by the folk - as it means no thing good has happenned. Hence the whole distibution gets shifted into evil.
edited by Talkes on 9/2/2016
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Grenem
Posts: 2067
9/2/2016
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Talkes wrote:
absimiliard wrote:
the RNG is Pure Evil.
That's where you're massively mistaken - rng is Random Evil. Mostly because a neutral "zero" outcome is considered as a bad one by the folk - as it means no thing good has happenned. Hence the whole distibution gets shifted into evil.
edited by Talkes on 9/2/2016
I think it's the other way round. good outcomes get shifted into neutral, or perhaps simply a loss is more bad than a win is good. not to mention some of the places, anytime you get the bad outcome, things go a lot further wrong, and the good outcomes don't improve things that much- so the average result is neutral, but bad luck costs more than good luck provides. i.e. polythreme.
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Married!:http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/takuza
I will accept all social actions that do not consume free evenings- and i will provide patronage to anyone who requests it, though it will be split between all requesters.
On psudeo-hiatus. Will be inactive and active and fluctuate without warning.
Grinding Favors without cards: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic22266-storylet-favors-grinding.aspx
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An Individual
Posts: 589
9/2/2016
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In the eyes of the RNG all is fair and all shall be fair. Though the RNG giveth and the RNG taketh away, it giveth and taketh in equal measure on the grand scale of time. Probably.
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An Individual's Profile
The RNG giveth and the RNG taketh away.
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Want a Cider sip? Please refer to this guide before requesting.
Scholaring the Correspondence? A Brief Guide to Courier's Footprint.
Contemplating Oblivion? First Steps on the Seeking Road.
Gone NORTH? Opened the gate? Throw your character in a well.
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Grenem
Posts: 2067
9/2/2016
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An Individual wrote:
In the eyes of the RNG all is fair and all shall be fair. Though the RNG giveth and the RNG taketh away, it giveth and taketh in equal measure on the grand scale of time. Probably.
In and of itself, yes. but the problem is there are places where a string of bad luck hurts more than good luck helps. And the reverse, of course, but when bad luck hurts more, then you don't remember that time you got to fascinating lv. 13 in polythreme, or, uselessly, lv. 14, you remember all the times you were just barely short of 12. Combined with the fact that lots of good luck results are just more progress, but bad luck results are actually terrible- how many good luck results are certain victory? how many bad luck results are certain defeat, or "I have to do this all over again?". There are places in carosels where the payout is halved or changed to a totally different type of currency on failure. Pyramidal gambles make this worse, sometimes. Sure, plant duels are nice, but it's ultimately a string of coin flips that continues until you get seven more heads then tails, and the only mercy the game shows is it won't let you go below zero. You have to live for the moment, or remember how good the epa is just short of the peak.
[with perfect luck, you could get 5 epa by winning the penultimate round and losing the final round indefinitely. Some people would call that an RNG curse, but that's the best-case scenario, and would never occur.]
Getting the 230 echo pocketwatch is amazing, but getting to miss rolling a 5 on 20 5-or-6 zee catches is what sticks with you, because outrageous good luck is usually rare successes, where the odds are hidden, or an absurdly long string of "likely outcome" rolls, while outragously bad luck is failing what should be a one-in-three 20 times, spending about 20 actions each time, even if you did get some nice items along the way. There's a lot more "This is certain defeat if the RNG decides it hates me" chances than "This saves me a boatload of work" chances. When the RNG decides to bless you it saves a little time, but when the RNG decides it hates you it wastes a lot of time- or at least that's how it feels.
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Married!:http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/takuza
I will accept all social actions that do not consume free evenings- and i will provide patronage to anyone who requests it, though it will be split between all requesters.
On psudeo-hiatus. Will be inactive and active and fluctuate without warning.
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shylarah
Posts: 171
9/3/2016
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ARRRRGH! My alt now has TWO mood cards in her hand (and only two slots right now) and yet my main has not drawn any! This is bothersome in the extreme! I know it's because Alys has the qualities to unlock far more potential cards, but still. UGH! *kicks the RNG* Sometimes the wrong good luck is just as frustrating as extremely bad luck. ^.^;
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Alts: (please direct all inquiries to Alys & say who they're for)
-Nikki, the Playful Daredevil, leading the constables on merry chases across London at every available opportunity. It's not a good robbery if you didn't get chased~
-Shylarah, waifish, wide-eyed, painfully foreign, entirely untamed. Her search for a way home now leads her to Parabola. There's something about her...
-Dr. Maxwell Thomas, a kindhearted physician who can't stand to see suffering. Moral to a fault, even to his own detriment. Unlucky in love.
I would rather be taken for a fool than deny aid where it is needed.
-Angie, the Cheeky Sharpshooter. Got her start with the Regiment and proudly operated their cannon for years. Rowdy, rough, and among the best shots in London.
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