Serious Problem

[cbutcher318]

So I was playing an immortal level game with Louis XIV. I was attacked by barbarians in a city containing a warrior with one star and one archer bonus. I lost the exact same battle over ten times. The combat calculator gave me roughly 75% chances of winning that battle. There is a 0.0003814697265625% chance of this happening. That is damn near a statistical impossibility. Either fix it or explain it for this is giant BS. I understand that stuff happens. But I've been losing 99.9% battles since I moved up to immortal on a regular basis and I'm sorry but this is rediculous. And Now losing what is essentially a 99.99962863273435% battle, that has crossed the line. Somebody needs to fix this.

 

[ori]

Actually the chance of this happening is 25% for the first time and 100% every time you reload, not 0.0003814697265625%.
The reason for this is that the game calculates its random numbers from a random seed which is determined at the start of the game and (by default) preserved, so that reloading and doing the exact same things over again (like this attack) will not change any results, unless some other action is performed differently, thus using the previous random number and forcing the game to calculate a new one.
If you want to be able to reload and have different results for the same actions you have to start a custom game and check the "new random seed on reload" option.