There is no doubt in my mind that Verant's RNG is really bad. It seems that
most things in this world happen in pairs. Not only do missed notes happen
more in pairs; so do weapon procs. Wouldn't surprise me if there was a real
simple bug fix there if they bothered to look at the code...

Slyde Katzenjammer
Still 36 but finally making progress on Xegony

PS - I also have been doing a good amount of Oracle these days - but know
Sybase better...

----- Original Message -----
From: <kim@...>
To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Ghoul Assassin Advice?

>
> I need to run a test comparing the missed note frequency
> during normal play and right after a missed note. My
> subjective feeling is that there's a much higher chance of
> getting a second missed note right after you've already missed
> one. The random number generator really does seem to be
> screwy that way. We got two 2h-mithril swords off successive
> king spawns (i.e. no placeholder in between), and the next day
> we got 2 ghoulbanes of successive shin lord spawns (that one
> was at 4am and I specifically asked everyone to stick around
> just in case the RNG burped, which it did).
>
> --
> John H. Kim
> kim@...