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Random generated kingdoms ?
« on: June 16, 2013, 01:08:44 pm »
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Seriously, in almost each game I play there is at least one boring attack card : Goons, Witch, Minion, Mountebank. One of those four. I seriously suspect that the kingdoms are not really randomly generated... or... the odds are against me.
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Re: Random generated kingdoms ?
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2013, 01:12:03 pm »
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It's a perception bias.

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Re: Random generated kingdoms ?
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2013, 02:01:23 pm »
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In almost each game I play there is at least one card that has the text "+X Y" on it (where X is a number and Y is Card(s)/Action(s)/$/Coin(s) or Buy(s), what are the odds of that!?!

Nah, seriously though, I don't find many more attacks than usual in my games, it might even be less.
But maybe because that's true randomness. I mean, if every Chinese person rolls a die and throws a 6 at the same time, it means that the rest of the people on this planet can't be rolling a 6. That's how it works, folks.
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Re: Random generated kingdoms ?
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2013, 02:11:17 pm »
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Goons is not a boring attack card, it almost always makes very interesting games.
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Re: Random generated kingdoms ?
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2013, 08:31:57 am »
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Re: Random generated kingdoms ?
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2013, 08:47:39 am »
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You have 93 games, and
Witch: 10
Goons: 6
Minion: 5
Mountebank: 4

Is 25/93 which is a bit more than every 4th game...
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Re: Random generated kingdoms ?
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2013, 09:11:35 am »
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The inclusion/exclusion principle applies; you've overcounted by the number of games where more than one of them appeared, and then undercounted by the number of games where three do, and then overcounted by the number where all four do.
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Re: Random generated kingdoms ?
« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2013, 09:19:12 am »
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The inclusion/exclusion principle applies; you've overcounted by the number of games where more than one of them appeared, and then undercounted by the number of games where three do, and then overcounted by the number where all four do.
And it's just one game, so it's 24/93, which is a bit more than every 4th game...

Edit: And reading my original posts, there was nothing wrong in it anyway, because missing units.  So 25/93 is correct if it measured cards/games.
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Re: Random generated kingdoms ?
« Reply #8 on: June 17, 2013, 09:30:45 am »
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I was being silly, it's highly unlikely in 93 games that you'd get any games in which three or more of those cards appeared.

If it was two games, 23/93 would be a bit less than every 4th game, though :-p
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Re: Random generated kingdoms ?
« Reply #9 on: June 17, 2013, 09:46:48 am »
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Which sets do you own? I suppose depending on that answer it's possible you've been unlucky and seen these cards more often than average.
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Re: Random generated kingdoms ?
« Reply #10 on: June 17, 2013, 12:08:09 pm »
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My experience has been a good balance of boards. Some are boring BMish, some engine, some attack heavy, etc. However, in casual mode, Governor seems to come up one out of every 3 games or so, it appears. I wonder if the "fun" kingdom generator thing is running in casual. I could see Governor being a popular target for it because of the fact it is non-terminal and does three powerful different things
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Re: Random generated kingdoms ?
« Reply #11 on: June 17, 2013, 01:08:47 pm »
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Which sets do you own? I suppose depending on that answer it's possible you've been unlucky and seen these cards more often than average.
I play only on games hosted by opponents.
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Re: Random generated kingdoms ?
« Reply #13 on: June 17, 2013, 03:20:07 pm »
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Maybe some of your opponents have found how to override the random kingdoms  :P

Has this been fixed yet? Every time I'm close to actually buying Goko, something new comes up which stops me.
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