RNG Fairness

[S0lara]

If the zero was only added and the count was not shifted by 1 because of it, then there’s absolutely no need to re-roll and the result is fair because the odds were equally lowered for everyone.

For example, if 4 people entered the lottery, each would have had a 25% chance to win, but if they dropped a 5th “zero bidder” into the mix, all it means that now all 4 real people simply had a 20% chance of winning… and there was a 20% chance that the drawing fails and hits the zero. If it didn’t, though then how exactly is it unfair?

Only those cases where zero actually won need to be re-rolled (and the single bidders should just get the house, of course).

Ugh, VarHyid, lol. After reading this...I hope you are not right. If they did that, then that is shady, lol. I think that since they officially came out and said the zero's were unintended, then the "zero bidder" was not supposed to be factored into the percent chance of each person bidding.

[VarHyid]

Ugh, VarHyid, lol. After reading this...I hope you are not right. If they did that, then that is shady, lol. I think that since they officially came out and said the zero's were unintended, then the "zero bidder" was not supposed to be factored into the percent chance of each person bidding.

I’m not sure how else to clarify this. Everyone’s odds went down equally. One real person did not get lower odds of winning, but all real people had the same equal possibility that the roll fails.

In other words, the fact that instead of a 25% chance you now had a 20% chance is irrelevant for your personal fortune. You still had a real 25% chance of winning against any other of the 4 real people, only all 4 people had an equal chance of being collectively screwed by a zero. If they didn’t, though, and zero didn’t won, then they all had a 1 in 4 shot of being a winner.

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Let me put it like this - the percent chance for each person winning did not change at all. What changed is that the possibility of everyone losing was introduced.