Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-175.143.90.202-20130822054714/@comment-12049489-20130828120921

PRAXISZ wrote: Optimus2861 wrote:

PRAXISZ wrote:

To each is his own. I have never been a gambler so I can't comment in that regard, but I have played a multitude of games and patterns have become much easier to notice.

The bridge in this game remains nowhere near random. I tend to subscribe to Occam's Razor about these things. It's possible that Mobage has some elaborate multi-dimensional equation to compute what cards you get when you click on the SB, but come on.. look at their track record for bugs. You really think they could pull it off? Plus it would be a nasty bit of code to develop for not much payoff.

I think it's far more likely that they simply have probability tables and they tweak them a little from time to time. We've got a low sample size on this forum plus selection bias so we're not getting a complete & impartial picture here. I know programmers. It is simple coding.

I AM a programmer and without the source code, we simply cannot know if there's a formula to cheat the users or if it's truly random. I myself tend to agree that it's not just a simple random and they've stacked the odds. As for all the bugs, the events have been flying pretty fast and furious, so the turnaround time on new code and code updates is pretty short. Plus, they've probably got a room full of contracted fellows from the middle-east doing this because they work cheap.