KoE_Sirius wrote:stahrgazer wrote:Answers to both original questions are "Yes," and "Yes."
Of course someone whose dice are great is more aggressive; he or she may originally be after 1 region, but if the dice are good the player is likely to target a 2nd, even a 3rd region. "Go for it," mode.
Similarly, if dice are poor, the player is likely to regroup and stack to defend rather than continue assaults.
As to the "suicide" discussion: on some maps, depending on the play, a failed assault means death, with the only question, "How soon?" In such cases, yes, a player might go ahead and assault down to singles to speed up the play, because they realize the situation is unwinnable. It's technically suicide, but it's really just understanding the map and what is an "unwinnable" situation. Not all stack-to-stack assaults result in that unwinnable situation, of course.
Yeah,but the dice are random.This is what LackAttack has said on numberous threads !Isn't that true then ?
Yes, but the question is "define random." From among the set of 50,000 (or whatever the number is) of possible options, the set does not reset for a player every time that player rolls. Only once that full set was used up does it reset.
Each time you pick up the cubes at home, when you roll, you have that full set of options and only that full set of options. True random would mean that for each roll, you will get every option, and only 1 each of each of those options that the dice could give you; and true random would mean your potential roll would always be from among that full set of random numbers.
But that's not how the CC program works it. Instead, as I said, there's a set of numbers. Which number you get is random within the existing set, but when you roll again it's "that set less 1" and if 3,000 other players have since rolled, your options are that original set of options set less 3,001.
So, if the random dice mix happens to have randomly given out all the "good numbers" from the set, you'll get from among the random "bad numbers" that are left (or vice versa).
At least, thats how I understand it to work based on another thread when they announced (was it last month?) that the set of random numbers was increased.
Again: To be "truly random" each roll would have to be among 1 full set of options available for that roll, just like when you roll your dice at home. So while the dice are random, they're not fully random.
Understanding that made me understand why the dice here are streaky in ways that really defy random.
