lol, love seeing that I'm not the only one who did this. Being suspicious of WoF was the first and last time I peeked at the Balatro source.

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QuantumNomad_ 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Game developers sometimes make the “randomness” favor the player, because of how we perceive randomness and chance.

For example in Sid Meier’s Memoir, this is mentioned.

Quoting from a review of said book:

> People hate randomness: To placate people's busted sense of randomness and overdeveloped sense of fairness, Civ Revolutions had to implement some interesting decisions: any 3:1 battle in favor of human became a guaranteed win. Too many randomly bad outcomes in a row were mitigated.

https://smus.com/books/sid-meiers-memoir/

Some threads on randomness and perceived fairness in video games can be found here on HN too, for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19399044

The original link being discussed in that thread is 404 now, but archived copies of the original link exist such as for example https://archive.is/8eVqt

	▲	renewiltord a minute ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Games like Battle for Wesnoth which have it implemented right, you’ll look at a 90-10 scenario with 2 attacks and end up with the 1% scenario. Enough to make a man rage. I have degrees in Mathematics, I am aware of statistics, and all that. And yet when I played that game I would still have an instant “wait what, that’s super unlikely” before I had to mentally control for the fact that so many battles happen in a single map. Was good because it identified a personal mental flaw.
	▲	bsimpson 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Dispatch too. If your odds are above a certain threshold, the mission is a gimme.
	▲	addandsubtract 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think XCOM does this as well.

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lovehashbrowns 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The 8-ball joker is even more BS. I think I’ve only seen it trigger once ever.

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mh- 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I've read the source a few years back. It's all implemented fairly as it says on the tin.

I've long been suspicious of the RNG/seed implementation.. but not curious enough to automate testing of it, though.

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StilesCrisis 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It's been done, it's a valid RNG. It's somewhere on Reddit if you want to try and search for it.

	▲	mh- 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I figured it had been tested by someone more motivated than me, haha, thanks! Will look for it when I'm back at a computer.