Why does this software use a psuedo-randomization engine instead of an actual shuffle algorithm?
After testing whether or not this was true over the course of approximately 200 simulated games, I have discovered that the shuffle algorithm in PTCG Live is not random at all. The type of card you draw: item, tool, pokemon, energy, supporter, etc. has nothing to do with whether or not the chance of drawing it dictates, but rather based on how the game is currently progressing.
Try building a deck with 1 basic pokemon, 30 supporter cards, and 29 energy cards. Now take that deck into any battle and watch how frequently you get either 6 energy or 6 supporter cards in your opening hand with the one pokemon.
Statistically, you should be getting a mix, but based on PTCG Live's algorithm, you will receive 6 supporter cards or 6 energy cards 33% of the time. This is based on a trial of 200 games where 136 games resulted in a mix of energy cards and supporter cards and 64 games resulted in either 6 supporter cards or 6 energy cards.
If you could please update your randomization engine to actually mimic riffle shuffling, that would be excellent, because until you do the online version of this game is a farce.
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If it was properly random, then the likelihood of having 6 energies or 6 supporters in the starting hand should be about 2.5% right?
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Whatever the case, this is way at the bottom of the issues list, even if it is a real issue and not just people trying to blame the app for bad hands (and the fact that you think it adjusts based on how the game is progressing makes me hesitant to believe that you're not just trying to blame the game for poor deck building).
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Tested by several people but couldn't be replicated by anyone
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Don't know about this randomization, however I have noticed that the coin flip doesn't seem to be random since I have seen where it will just ask me if I want to go first before the coin flip and the opponent is calling heads or tails. I say yes I'd like to go first, then the coin flips and the opponent loses the coin flip and I go first. Seems like a farce to me.
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Yeah it is still random, just the animation is redundant and thus a waste of time.
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