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Kdice is broken
g00b2 wrote
at 1:50 PM, Friday April 25, 2008 EDT
xnixnix defended 7v4, 7 to 24, (1,1,1,1,1,1,1 to 6,6,6,6)

And yet i still get 48% luck.

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shiggyman wrote
at 2:44 PM, Friday April 25, 2008 EDT
yea and its been lagging alot now
g00b2 wrote
at 5:17 PM, Friday April 25, 2008 EDT
WHAT. Seriously, luck % is broken.

My attacks:
5v3 ... loss
4v2 ... loss
2v2 ... loss

Attacks against me:
3v2 won
2v1 won

I flagged.

My luck 38.9 %

Bull.
DaShiVa wrote
at 5:42 PM, Friday April 25, 2008 EDT
Luck is purely mathematical here i believe.
Essentially all die rolls you make in the game are averaged out, and your luck % is how far they are from the expected average of 3.5 per die.
Thus, you can make an attack of 2v1, if you roll of 2+3 and beat a roll of 4, then your your luck is effectively adjusted lower, for each roll under 3.5, and the defender (who lost) has their luck raised, as their roll was over 3.5
Luck isn't an indication of 'real' luck, where rolls you expect to win that were lost holding more weight. Also, of course, it doesn't weigh in for rolls that are critical being made (final step of a join, etc) as it can't figure those out.

The only way to get, say, 0% luck would be if every single dice rolled was a 1, and for 100% if every dice rolled was a 6.

So, while the luck % isn't necessarily a 100% reflection of your actual human based luck in game, you can mentally scale it to anything under 30% being abyssmal, anything over 70% being fantastic, as the alternative would be a complex set of logic routines based on the programmers idea of what constitutes luck, and how much they can make the system grind out in a formulaic calculation for every roll in every game going on at any given time.
Dr.Zoidberg wrote
at 5:50 PM, Friday April 25, 2008 EDT
And Shiva wins a "Who the fuck cares" award for 2008.

DaShiVa wrote
at 6:40 PM, Friday April 25, 2008 EDT
fiction? might be, just the way it appears to work to me, I never claimed it was fact.
On the other hand, I've programmed MUDs from the ground up (if anyone here is old enough to know what they are), and currently work as a php/javascript/mysql/actionscript, etc programmer, which is what this game is built on, so I'm not just talking out my arse :)

And, zoidberg, thankyou, I accept. I'll put it in a trollhide display case.
g00b2 wrote
at 6:00 PM, Saturday April 26, 2008 EDT
Ok, now i'm convinced the luck% is really broken. Started a game with 4 lands, a 5, 3, 2, and 1.

Round 1, I was defeated:
3v2
2v3
5v5

And i flagged, having only 1 land with 1 dice. Got 27.2% luck. Ummm .... isn't that ACTUALLY 0% luck???
meagain wrote
at 1:24 PM, Monday April 28, 2008 EDT
Holy Roller wrote
at 11:13 PM, Monday April 28, 2008 EDT
luck is not based on whether you win an attack.

Luck is based on the odds that you will win an attack and whether you win. if you lose an attack that has 23% chance of success then you don't have bad luck (so losing a 2v3 would be normal luck)

Also, stop whining. It's unbecoming of a germ/glob/slime looking thing.
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