Hello fellow humanoids

I'm coding mystery boxes in my game and I need to make the chances luckier (i.e. make the probability of rare ones to be higher)

So right now my probability distribution has a negative skew and looks like [0.5, 0.3, 0.2]

So the shitty sword has a 0.5 chance of being dropped and the great sword has 0.2 chance

how can I make it so the rare ones are not more probable while the common ones are less probable while still keeping the integral = 1?

@ACuriousMind Sup

I will not help you implement loot boxes :P

Please

You can live with it

People's brains are hijacked and "exploited" all the time

We all spend money needlessly to have some dopamine induced

I will implement it anyways so at least you can speed it up pleas

I swear I'm a moral human being

I just need money to do better stuff

I can't start an AI company or a neurotech company with $1000

from Bulgaria

For the overall benefit of the human species, help your fellow human being implement loot boxes please

I'm even adding "please" to increase the likelihood of you agreeing

No, I really can't. I care about video games as an entertainment and an art form, and microtransactions and loot boxes are the exact opposite of everything I value about them. It's not just that I don't like them, I think they're actively harmful to both the medium at large and some people in particular.

Okay can you pretend I didn't say loot boxes but I said "a math exercise" instead?

It's alright I understand you

@ACuriousMind How you've been tho?

pretty well, nothing special going on

Good to hear that it's pretty well

Same here, hopefully my Roblox games start taking off soon

It's such a bliss to not have to go to school

@JingleBells This isn't directly related to your question, but if you'd like to know a way to place stuff randomly without it being too clumpy, check out blue noise. There's some good info here: momentsingraphics.de/BlueNoise.html

@ACuriousMind Do you have any advice for someone looking to get into DnD for the first time? I just assume you play it because of your past profile pics lol.

If not, do you play any other tabletop RP game?

I feel like you'd make a pretty good DM, what with you being an AI and all

I play D&D as well as a bunch of other systems (and yes, I'm usually the DM :P)

getting started depends on whether you know people who already play it, or whether you're starting out with a bunch of newbies

I started with ancient German rules for the The Dark Eye from my father and no one at the table had ever played a TTRPG before (but they had played a lot of computer RPGs - my pitch was "it's like a CRPG but you actually can do whatever you want") - the first few sessions were a mess until we figured out what the hell we were doing :P

if you're a single new player at an experienced table it will be very different to that

That's so cool. Is the dark eye similar to DnD at all? @Acuriousmind I got really into this online series called Roll Play (very punny) so i get the gist of the game.

Have you mostly played in person?

@Obliv dark eye is much lower fantasy (i.e. less and less powerful magic around) and has a much broader non-combat skill system, but the basic concepts are pretty close

@Obliv yes, until the pandemic hit I only had a single online group (due to us being scattered over several cities), the last two years have been mostly online, and it looks like at least one group will stay that way because people moved away but we want to keep playing with them

Do you use roll20?

online is worse in some respects but on the other hand there's a lot of neat software tools

I don't like the grid/map system. Although it is useful in certain situations I would rather rely on imagination

roll20 is great for beginners and very annoying once you realize how much more powerful stuff like Foundry VTT or Fantasygrounds is

I'll have to check those out.

@Obliv I usually just have a screen with a general map of the surroundings (the city they're in, the country they're travelling through) open - gridded maps only for combats I have explicitly prepared, which is about one every 3 sessions I guess

Do you play in german or english usually? I often forget it's your 2nd language even though you're so proficient lol

heh, I have played in English without too much trouble but all my regular games are in German

although we often use English character sheets/rules, so it's a bit of a linguistic mess :P

Hah, I'm bilingual too but I know my 2nd language which is english better than my first. Learning languages is tough..

Probably still not as hard as QFT.. if i had to guess.

eh

knowing more languages is probably more useful in everyday life :P

@RyanUnger Hellooo 0celo7 hows the princeton life? Are you still in princeton?

I think my friend went there for medical physics.

Now he's in Georgia doin his residency or whatever they do.

I gotta go thank you for the resources ACM. Guten tag!

@Obliv Ey long time no see