Live Letter XXX Discussion Thread

[Yukiko]

Doing maps daily, finally after months you get a portal, ohhh wait 10 minutes to gather some friends, but they are sleeping -> lets get some strangers... party time, after 9 minutes hurry to enter, first floor clear within some minutes then the wrong door and ohh sorry but thanks for helping... and maybe the strangers stealing all loot...

Can guarantee you within 4 weeks no one will ever do those portals again even when they spawn!

Edit: The reference with atma in the picture was "one gets it every time while the other does not"...

Edit2:
Ifrit choose to attack from 8 possible targets -> RNG used correctly
Crafter max level with using all skills and best in slot but failing in low level crafts -> RNG used wrong

Edit3: Well, no one ever said RNG is not needed -> we say it needs a net to backup extreme outcomes, every programmer can tell you about RNGs

Crap, again Edit4 - sorry its the last:
What I ment with correct use of RNG is that if you design the "outcome", you need to ask the question if it is important to "know" the outcome and what comes next.
As crafter you target something -> the outcome is important because it influence the following actions (losing materials) => not using RNG
If Ifrit attacks player A, B or C -> the outcome is not important because the following action doesnt change (needs to be healed) => using RNG
Choosing Loot from a pool of possibilities -> outcome is not important because you can influence the "possibilities" => using RNG (well, thats not what we have here in FFXIV)
Getting Loot, yes or no -> outcome is important because again the player is targeting something => not using RNG