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How should dice rolls appear on a BG server?
Posted By: Michael Petch In Response To: How should dice rolls appear on a BG server? (Bob Koca)
Date: Wednesday, 28 September 2011, at 3:00 p.m.
After so many dice studies on a number of servers, one of the most frequent question is why I choose to look at dice sequences in pairs rather than separately in some of my studies. Some servers write them as is, some don't.I can analyse both - no issues. To some who don't know better, they think I am trying to hide something even after explaining. Since the request is rather trivial to implement I'm doing so now.
If I want to convert dice logs into a binary stream to run through Die Hard tests, one advantage is that there are more bits I can collect per move by knowing the original sequence. Much the same way I could ask a server developer for the original bits from their random source that were used to derive each roll. To most servers that request would be more cumbersome, and I don't bother asking. But If someone did do that I'd be able to collect more bits faster.
To the normal user who doesn't care, it doesn't matter and many would think the request pointless.
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