The /random and /dice commands.

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Originally Posted by Tiggy

I can't wait for this feature!



Zirael, let me reiterate what he said above because you seemed to have failed to acknowledge it. Programming is a very complex environment with strict deadlines, roadmaps, regression tests, and versioning. It is not as simple as "oh but look at da google." Just because it's easy doesn't mean they have developer time to fix it right now this close to the patch release.

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Not to mention not every engine may handle the same formulae exactly the same....so while it is a basic thing, the fact a bug cropped up should prove that lol.

I think it would be fun to add a /janken (rock, paper, scissors) command

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Originally Posted by Kio

I think it would be fun to add a /janken (rock, paper, scissors) command

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...lizards, Spock

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Originally Posted by Sepix

How do you place a bug in a rand() function? And how does it take 3 months to fix it?
I am just curious really ... :D

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I am not a game DEV. My only assumption is that it's a low priorety thus why they're pushing it back to 2.4

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Originally Posted by Sepix

How do you place a bug in a rand() function? And how does it take 3 months to fix it?
I am just curious really ... :D

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rand() doesn't return a uniform distribution of numbers, they'd probably use something more complex.

also, i imagine the bug isn't just "Oh, our random command keeps returning 7, that's weird."

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Originally Posted by Holyhunter

rand() doesn't return a uniform distribution of numbers, they'd probably use something more complex.

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Like /dev/urandom?

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Originally Posted by Felis

And what about /countdown ?

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ooooo.....

I miss that emote. I forgot it exist. Why we don't have it anymore? That was a fun emote. XD

I'm going with the comedy "someone discovered a way to screw with the /random seed clientside" reason.

Alternate comedy reason: NSA backdoors.

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Originally Posted by WizardShotTheFood

I'm going with the comedy "someone discovered a way to screw with the /random seed clientside" reason.

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Just a sec ... it's a joke, right? Or are you serious, it was done clientside?
That's even a bigger fail than SE's notorious refusal to encrypt the TCP streams.

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Originally Posted by Sepix

How do you place a bug in a rand() function? And how does it take 3 months to fix it?
I am just curious really ... :D

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You clearly aren't aware of absolutely terrible the engine and coding they use is. It's over complicated for no reason. I mean look how many months it took them to add a '%' feature to hp? Far too long.