Lairs etc. Just how "random" are they?

[Teutorix]

I made a quicksave and raided the same lair 20 times as a test, same result everytime.

0S0
0W0
S00

0 = blank tile
W = my warrior
S = skeleton

the skeletons spawned time after time in the same spots without fail, wiping out my warrior everytime. WTH?

 

[Morlark]

Unless you ticked 'new random seed on reload' at game start, I don't see what the problem is...

 

[Teutorix]

But, i thought that exploring lairs was supposed to give a random result. If you reload and it does the same thing again and again dosent that mean that they arent random at all?

 

[Merddyn]

It's random because it decides what result it will be from the number the random number generator provides. However, the RNG can't be random because of how computers work. So, at the beginning of the game, it creates a seed, which is basically the pattern of numbers that the RNG will use throughout the game. When you load, it'll load it with that seed and at that point in going through the pattern. Thus, no matter how many times you do it, it'll follow the same pattern, resulting in the same thing happening, unless the actions YOU take differ. Say, you do something before exploring that lair that makes it take a random number and then proceeds down the list.

However, if you enable random seed on reload, whenever you load the game up, it'll start the session of the game with a new seed, and thus a new pattern of "random" numbers.

 

[Teutorix]

Ah... Very enlightening, thanks.