Upon making 30th level I quickly maxxed out all my bard skills except for
brass. Yesterday I got four straight missed notes when trying to start up
selos. I had just logged into the game, wasn't in combat, and had no lag
problems. If there is a base chance of 5% for missing a note, the chances
of me failing to start selos on four straight attempts was 0.00000625 (5% x
5% x 5% x 5%). I think the random number generator was definately not
acting very random on this occasion.

Galtin of E'ci
30 bard

> On a second but maybe related note, I believe the random number genrator
> may be flawed in the game. I see too many long runs of unlikly events
> (both good and bad). This would be far from unheard of, as random
> number generators are eseentially impossible to code. (People just
> write code that approximates random number generartion). I did a study
> of the random number generator built into the 8088 (basically the
> original IBM PC) processor. (I used a few different languages to try to
> eliminate any effect they had on it). I basically graphed a "random" x
> and y cooordinate, drawing a line from point 1 to 2 to 3, etc... The
> plots always followed similar patterns... Weird, eh?
>