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EAGER-beaver
Profile Joined March 2004
Canada2799 Posts
December 25 2004 03:33 GMT
#1
This has really irked me since the beginning of sc. It seems like random actually means terran %90 of the time. Since I random virtually every single game, if I want to be zerg or protoss, I have to manually select them at the start of every game. Anyone else notice how random is extremely biased towards terran?
Simon and Garfunkel rock my face off
gLyo
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
United States2410 Posts
December 25 2004 03:36 GMT
#2
I'm pretty sure random is actually random. Blizzard would have had no reason to make it 90% Terran, so why would that be so? You probably just have bad luck.
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Mandalor
Profile Blog Joined February 2003
Germany2362 Posts
December 25 2004 03:36 GMT
#3
I think you always get the race you don't want or it seems like that
in your case it's terran, in my case it's toss
MaGnIfIcA
Profile Joined October 2002
Norway2312 Posts
December 25 2004 03:37 GMT
#4
Hmm, iv heard it somewhere before. But when iv been playing random like the cuple days. Iv got way more p and z than t. Like i was trying to play vs a friend yesterday. I got random zerg, one of our obs friends disced so we remake. I go random again, get zerg. And something else was wrong, so same goes over again. And what do you know, zerg again.
Wannabe sMB member yo, so spankable-.-v;;
Liquid`Drone
Profile Joined September 2002
Norway28875 Posts
December 25 2004 03:39 GMT
#5
haha
nope. :p
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MyDoom
Profile Joined June 2004
1274 Posts
December 25 2004 03:41 GMT
#6
naaah, random = random
My English SuX, dont Hate me T_T
Degussa
Profile Joined July 2004
Singapore108 Posts
December 25 2004 03:43 GMT
#7
hmm maybe blizzard should release a patch for the random race generating algorithm? heeeeeeeeeeeee
the guy on top of me is gay..its true
gg_hertzz
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
2152 Posts
December 25 2004 03:45 GMT
#8
Don't you know, there's no such thing as random.

Especially when it's concerning computers.
Bill307
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
Canada9103 Posts
December 25 2004 03:45 GMT
#9
You're fooling yourself. Random gives equal odds for every race. There is absolutely no reason why Blizzard wouldn't make random totally fair, and it's not exactly hard to program it to give equal odds for each race .
ProudCappi
Profile Joined October 2004
United States366 Posts
December 25 2004 03:47 GMT
#10
However, I have started in the same spot on LT literally 8 times in a row. It happened later that day in a different spot (but more times, like 10 or so).
-proud capitalist- |freedom|property|individualism|self-reliance|
Refrain[FriZ]
Profile Joined June 2003
Canada4337 Posts
December 25 2004 03:49 GMT
#11
it's all in your head.
Degussa
Profile Joined July 2004
Singapore108 Posts
December 25 2004 03:53 GMT
#12
don't let a programming algorithm affect your mood....
worse come to worse just pick the race haha
the guy on top of me is gay..its true
RamenStyle
Profile Joined September 2004
United States1929 Posts
December 25 2004 03:53 GMT
#13
Random is random. Whenever i random i tend to get zerg a lot of times, but by statistics, maybe on the next 100 randomings, ill get less zerg.
gg_hertzz
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
2152 Posts
December 25 2004 03:55 GMT
#14
Someone should create 1000 games and give us the statistics.

Someone, else I mean.
ShabZzoY!
Profile Joined July 2004
Great Britain760 Posts
December 25 2004 04:02 GMT
#15
me and my friend had zvt in rvr 3 times in a row

i believe thats 1/729 chance

the whole point of random is anything may happen, its designed to have equal odds but you could have same race for 8 games i suppose(more chance than most lottery :o)
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12249 Posts
December 25 2004 04:03 GMT
#16
On December 25 2004 12:33 EAGER-beaver wrote:
This has really irked me since the beginning of sc. It seems like random actually means terran %90 of the time. Since I random virtually every single game, if I want to be zerg or protoss, I have to manually select them at the start of every game. Anyone else notice how random is extremely biased towards terran?


Yeah, just like coin-flipping is extremely biased towards Heads. Heads comes up 90% of the time! That's not random!
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8882
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
2736 Posts
December 25 2004 04:04 GMT
#17
On December 25 2004 12:36 Mandalor wrote:
I think you always get the race you don't want or it seems like that
in your case it's terran, in my case it's toss


it's one of the Murphy's rules
I have returned
Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
December 25 2004 04:05 GMT
#18
On December 25 2004 12:36 Mandalor wrote:
I think you always get the race you don't want or it seems like that
in your case it's terran, in my case it's toss

Same.

Wtf I get p and p and p and p :O
When I random I want to get zerg or terran since I play only p matchups normally =[
Moderatortell the guy that interplanatar interaction is pivotal to terrans variety of optionitudals in the pre-midgame preperatories as well as the protosstinal deterriggation of elite zergling strikes - Stimey n | Formerly FrozenArbiter
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12249 Posts
December 25 2004 04:05 GMT
#19
On December 25 2004 13:02 ShabZzoY! wrote:
me and my friend had zvt in rvr 3 times in a row

i believe thats 1/729 chance

the whole point of random is anything may happen, its designed to have equal odds but you could have same race for 8 games i suppose(more chance than most lottery :o)


No it's still a 1/3 chance =)

Again I'll use coin-flipping as an example. If you get Heads 3 times in a row, the chances of that happening aren't 1/8, they're still 1/2.
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FrEaK[S.sIR]
Profile Joined October 2002
2373 Posts
December 25 2004 04:10 GMT
#20
Its 1/9 chance...both sides of it are randomized..
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