% are a joke when it comes to HQing

[Zozma]

So after some occasionally HQ now and then I went on a new bad luck streak;
50+25
50+25
48+24
50+25
50+25
48+24
41+20
33 (hq'ed here)

Its just so fustrating to blow everything up cause you are stuck with bad luck, I mean the chances of zero HQ on a case of 6*50% is just like...1.5% yet I fall in that category, and it happens ALL the time with me. *goes cry in a corner*

[Yrusama]

Or you could sit in a jail cell and flip a coin 10,000 times to see if 50/50 presents itself ^.^;

Actually, I've heard that 55% of the time a coin will be tails because the heads side is slightly heavier. But that's irrelevant. Carry on!

[Asiaine]

Actually, I've heard that 55% of the time a coin will be tails because the heads side is slightly heavier. But that's irrelevant. Carry on!

That is offset by the fact that sometimes it lands on its edge!

[Seyrr]

That is offset by the fact that sometimes it lands on its edge!

Which, interestingly, is how the head of my college's chemistry department picked chemistry as his major. The story goes that he was flipping a coin to decide between physics and engineering, and there was a crack in the sidewalk nearby...

[kaboro]

So after some occasionally HQ now and then I went on a new bad luck streak;
50+25
50+25
48+24
50+25
50+25
48+24
41+20
33 (hq'ed here)

Its just so fustrating to blow everything up cause you are stuck with bad luck, I mean the chances of zero HQ on a case of 6*50% is just like...1.5% yet I fall in that category, and it happens ALL the time with me. *goes cry in a corner*

If it happens all the time, its not bad luck, its bad programming that makes the RNG very dependant on hardware, so some people will have "bad luck" a lot more often than others.
I know this from my own experience.
In another mmo i was plagued by "bad luck" for six months day after day, until i changed my hardware, after that it felt like i was playing in god mode, no more "bad luck" whatsoever.
RNG bugs happen only on certain pc configurations just like ordinary bugs, but unlike ordinary bugs, they are much harder to prove.

[Teakwood]

RANDOM NUMBERS:

STILL

TOO

RANDOM!!!

[tymora]

If it happens all the time, its not bad luck, its bad programming that makes the RNG very dependant on hardware, so some people will have "bad luck" a lot more often than others.
I know this from my own experience.

I really doubt anyone writes their own pseudo-random number generators nowadays when it is part of standard libraries except for really specialized applications. The only limitation of PRNG is that it repeats after a (long) series but you should never see it.

Hardware...possible but its again all standard PC parts.

Go test with /random and do it...say a 1000 times before you start blaming programmers.

[Green_and_a_Half]

[Gukie]

your chances to hq something at 99% does not mean 100%- you could fail 100 time on a 99%chance just base on but the next 10000 succeeds that's still considered 1% chance of faillure-

[Asiaine]

I was crafting a level 51+ item (Jade Crook), with NQ items only.
Got durability up to just above 300, so I had a 1% chance.
It HQed.

Therefore, I think its fair to say 1% chance does mean greater than 0% probability of success.