Re: Research Woes

Wallace (C.I.Cavanagh@qmw.ac.uk)
09 Dec 1997 08:08:22 +0000

In <348C6A5D.59E2@digitalboardwalk.com>, Tim Whalen wrote:
>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

Ah but as we all know a million to 1 shot will always work, just ask
MR T.Pratchett.

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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