Talk:Luck manipulation
https://glitchcity.info/w/index.php?title=Luck_manipulation&diff=7373&oldid=7371 Should the plan be to just keep this as external links after all? I was wondering how much it belonged here too, and with the excellent guides out there it doesn't necessarily need to be copied one more place. Sherkel (talk) 09:06, 8 February 2019 (-06)
- You can make/expand on these pages with more specific information if you like. :) I think the reason I removed the content in that revision was because I didn't know well enough about the subject and if I put anything that was incorrect (but I feel it's fine as long as it isn't word for word). --Torchickens (talk) 05:25, 9 February 2019 (-06)
Regarding the current state and seed often being referred to as the same thing (which isn't correct), the reason is that the place the seed is originally located in memory upon booting up is overwritten whenever the LCG or Mersenne twister is advanced another step. (For example, in Emerald you have 00000000 at that location and then 00006073 a frame later.) The difference could be worth keeping in mind when I write the rest of the subpages. (...when I'm 50, at this rate :P) Sherkel (talk) 00:14, 23 August 2019 (-06)
- See, I actually have no problem with not differentiating between the current state and the initial state. After all, the point of talking about "states" is that the current state at any time is the basis of all future random numbers. The problem is that the word "seed" is also used to refer to the external input used to initialize the state (think of
srand(42)), which may (and in a good RNG framework, should) be different from the initial state itself. Basically I was thinking of this (this is a link; I still think GCL can use a different link color). Bbbbbbbbba (talk) 11:38, 23 August 2019 (-06)