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General Discussion » We were removed by our opponents in tournament semi finals » Go to message

Is there any way to return the game or have in adjudicated. We were clearly winning and on our way to the finals.

General Discussion » Random seed and RNG function » Go to message

For transparency. I took a look at a decompiled apk file. I found that the Random number generator is a xorshift function:

And the random number generator is seeded at instantiation by

So this tells me how the seed is generated, and how it is progressed. But I am still missing an important piece. How can I retrieve the random seed from my games? Any help would be appreciated.

Of course I could be way off. Reading a decompiled app is not a clear or easy process.

General Discussion » Random seed and RNG function » Go to message

I've determined what the random number generator is, but I am still unsure of how to determine what the seed is for each game. Does anybody know if this information is available?

General Discussion » Random seed and RNG function » Go to message

Is there a way to determine the seed used in a uniwar game? And is it known what RNG is used?

As good as the wormhole is, and other probabilistic damage calculators, I still feel at the whim of randomness. If I wanted to play well I would need to go through all iterations of attacks and log the results and undo/redo the turn. This is a very painstaking process.

With knowledge of the RNG and seed I could at least avoid all of this trial and error.

Is there anything known about this?

Khraleans » When does Plague do damage, and spread » Go to message

What about if there are 2 kral players and their infections have met on sapian units? Are they infected with the first infection, or the next?

Also, to cure plague, does a unit only need to be adjacent to an engineer? or do they need to heal with one?

Khraleans » When does Plague do damage, and spread » Go to message

Hello all,

I am confused as to exactly when the plague spreads from sapian to sapian.

Does the plague spread at the end of every player's turn? Or a specific player's turn.

My confusion arises because I read that a common tactic is to plague an infected marine and move it to your opponent to infect their units. This would either indicate that the plague spreads at the end of the turn with the plague, or at the beginning of a turn for the sapian player. But in a match casted by ennuigoblin on youtube, simsverd plagued a copter, and on that very turn the copter infected a sapian player. So does the plague spread at the start of a sapian player's turn? How about in 4-8 player games?

Also, when is the damage done?

Thanks for your help.

General Discussion » Impossibly low damage in tournament? » Go to message

Abie wrote:

simsverd wrote:this isnt a bug.. but it would be ok to discuss the level of impact the random factor has

(moved it to general discussion)

How is this not a bug? I've noticed this myself as well in tournaments.

In the ongoing TvT tournament in the round I lost I had a speeder of mine attacked in my base by his speeder. It lost 4 life and his speeder just 3.

In the mirrored game, I tried the EXACT SAME MOVE. But I only took away 3 hp. So I was pisses off because it meant I couldn't kill his speeder. I then proceeded to try a different move. I was steamed at how he got mine and I couldn't get his.

Furthermore, I have noticed this in a lot of tournament games I've played. Especially in the early rounds.

Both games in a mirrored tournament are seeded with the same random numbers. Something in your two games happened differently, and therefore when you tried the 'same move' you were using different rolls to calculate damage. Uniwar is based on a formula where each one of your units has a chance to hit the other unit. So your damage will be somewhere between 0 and the hp of your unit. You just didn't roll as high as they did, but the random numbers generated for your two games were the same. You just distributed them differently.

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