Triple Triad: NPCs Ignore Random Rule When Order Rule Active

Time: 3/19/2015 ~9:00pm EST
Frequency: Always
World name: Faerie
Character name: Neri Feralheart
NPC name: Buscarron
Monster name: None
Class/Level: MIN 50
Party or solo: Solo
In-game time: ~6:00am
Area and coordinates: South Shroud (19,19)
Steps:
1. Buscarron always plays with the "Order" rule. While the Triple Triad Regional Rule for South Shroud is set to "Random" (as it was on 3/19/2015), challenge Buscarron to a Triple Triad match.
2. Note the cards that Buscarron plays and their order.
3. Play Buscarron ten more times. Note that his cards are always played in the same order despite the Random rule.
4. While the Triple Triad Regional Rule for South Shroud is NOT set to "Random," challenge Buscarron to a series of Triple Triad matches. Note that the order he plays his cards in is identical to the order when the "Random" rule was in effect.

The order of the cards he plays will always be: Kan-E-Senna -> Odin -> Good King Moggle Mog XII -> Gilgamesh & Enkidu -> Papalymo & Yda -> Garuda

The Order rule forces both players to play cards in the order they exist in their deck. The Random rule is supposed to randomize both players' decks with cards from their collection. For players, there is no intrinsic order that the cards from their collection are added to their deck when the Random rule is in play. So, even if a player gets the same cards twice in a row, they will be in a different order. Buscarron, however, always draws his cards in a specific order despite the Random rule, which, due to the Order rule, is also the order in which he plays them. He appears to have six cards in his collection, and while the cards chosen for the game were always five randomly picked from those six, they were always in the same order. In addition, it appeared to me that only the last two cards were randomly chosen from a set of three possibilities - the first three cards were always the same and in the same order.

For instance, in every single game I played (out of about ten to fifteen), the first card he played was Kan-E-Senna, the second card he played was Odin, and the third card he played was Good King Moggle Mog XII. If the Random rule was being applied to him correctly, the order of his cards should have been randomized (as well as the cards themselves, but given his tiny collection, that part might be working) and he should have been forced to play the cards in that randomly chosen order due to the Order rule. He should also not have those three cards in every single game, but since his collection is only six cards, it could have just been luck that he always had those three. On that note, it could also be luck that he always had his cards in the same order despite the Random rule, but that chance is extremely unlikely, especially since this order is the same order he plays them in when the Random rule is not in effect.

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