Re: Research Woes

Tim Whalen (whalen@digitalboardwalk.com)
Mon, 08 Dec 1997 13:45:01 -0800

Grimm wrote:
>
> Is everyone else having as bad luck with research spells as I am
> or is there something I am doing incorrectly? I use the order
> research 800, which to me is kinda dumb, why not specify what you
> want to research not some generaly category to hope to get what you
> want. It also doesnt not appear to have any benefit to doing cumulative
> researches. I am now 1 for 20 which is a lot of wasted time that could
> have been spent on other things. I also talked to one of my faction
> members and he is 1 for 14 on research.
>
> Anyway , thought i would post this too see if things are just skewed
> in my area and hopefully people are hitting the "random" research of
> a 25% crap shoot.
>
> Maybe its time to commit sepaku(sp?) on my mage.....

I did a survey a few turns back when I had about a 5% success
rate on research and the total for my whole alliance was just
about exactly 25%. If you get Rich to respond at all he will
tell you "your sample is too small to be statistically significant."
I once pointed out a million to one shot in g1 and he still didn't
waver in his belief of the soundness of his random number generator.
Hell, he is an RSA encryption expert so you have to be diplomatic
when you accuse his RNG of laziness...

The good part is that the turn after I complained I went something
like 3 for 5 and more than tripled my overall success rate so
complaining definitely helps in a spiritual sense.

As Yvengi once said : Your karma hit my dogma!

Tim

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