Flight Rising Discussion

So, one of my favorite games is Stardew Valley, and as with most RNG, it uses a seed. A number assigned to your game that is used to calculate anything "random" that happens in the game.

Assuming FR uses a seed too.. how do you think it works? Bad RNG for the day? Just for a coli instance, and when you leave and come back it assignes a new seed?

Yesterday coli was flawless.. so many chests.. Today I went to Ghostlight with fodder in tow, got a boss, left, got a boss, left again, got a boss. *laugh* I have had to restart each batch of fodder so many times, it's ridiculous. Very few chests in coli, none in gathering, but bonding with fams has been good. Crim is stingy today, yesterday she was fabulous. Exalting has been generous.

So yeah.. do we get a new seed per account per day at rollover? Implying we just get "bad luck days" (or rather, our luck is in a different place each day.. bad coli day might be a great egg hatching day)

Thoughts?

I'm p sure it is partially tied to the timer (since unrelated g1 hatchlings born at the same time tend to have similar colors), and coli might be using that and another set of factors to determine an enemy and drop seed.

When a seed is used, there usually aren't "good luck seeds" and "bad lucks seeds", as in seeds that consistently give bad or good results.

It's just a starting value used to create a deterministic process that looks random, but no matter the seed, the distribution of the results over a long time will follow the same distribution

I kinda just assumed it was random, like the name states..... Everytime a random choice is set to happen, it randomly selects an option. As simply as rolling a dice or flipping a coin.

I kinda hate the idea that it might actually have some kind of pre-set determination that you're going to have bad luck today. If it's truly random, you can just blame it on the bad luck, but if it's actively choosing to be unlucky then it just kinda feels like the game hates me. As irrational as that sounds.

Every RNG decision is based on a Noggle chewing on a set of dice behind the scenes. Whatever rolls it spits out is your luck for that draw.

[quote name="Teletraan" date="2023-12-18 09:20:21" ] Every RNG decision is based on a Noggle chewing on a set of dice behind the scenes. Whatever rolls it spits out is your luck for that draw. [/quote] This is likely the real truth.

[quote name="Recallback" date="2023-12-18 09:13:39" ] I kinda just assumed it was random, like the name states..... Everytime a random choice is set to happen, it randomly selects an option. As simply as rolling a dice or flipping a coin. I kinda hate the idea that it might actually have some kind of pre-set determination that you're going to have bad luck today. If it's truly random, you can just blame it on the bad luck, but if it's actively choosing to be unlucky then it just kinda feels like the game hates me. As irrational as that sounds. [/quote] So, computers kinda can't [i]do[/i] random very well- they can mimic it, but it'll eventually loop back around. There is a site called random.org that [i]does[/i] do random stuff by measuring a natural random thing (atmospheric noise), and I remember seeing a video of a tech company using a bank of lava lamps for its randomness (no idea how [i]that[/i] works) but I doubt FR uses either. That said, a "bad luck day" isn't how seeds work, per se. Like, even on games like Stardew that you can speedrun, you have to be in the right place at the right time for the good luck even with the right seed. FR has so many things going on at one time, I'd say chalking a bad day up to the RNG is like... it's not wrong, per se, but it's not strictly accurate either?

because everyone is accessing a single website at the same time i'd imagine the seed would be universal for all players rather than us all having individual seeds, im no expert in programming wizardry but i'd imagine that would be an obscene amount of calculations to run. at least mmo's that you have to download or a mobile app can store your data on the client side. but anyways i don't know if that's a more or less reassuring thing to tell users, rng tends to cluster so both the bad luck and the good luck can happen in spades.