Romain, I'm really not sure if your reply is even directed to me as again I stated above I am in fact not trying " to convince anyone who know stat with 'one random game"
I was just adding commentary to the on going discussion as the original poster had asked others experience. I do think it is worth noting, but I do not claim any issue. As euklid did an excellent job of giving examples and info on their process.
Now is it BGA's job to test whether or not the PHP-function random_int() works properly or just use one of the most trusted RNG generators? Well that really would come down to if the community as a whole made a statement against the system they used. (again not even something I am suggesting)
Finally, to euklid, thanks for all the info and links they are appreciated. My only other thought would be that there is the possibility for irregularities to exist in it's implementation of the game Catan. Again not something I am saying is true or isn't true. It would be interesting to have someone run the numbers over a 100, 300, or even 1000 game set just to get an idea of it. Is that the Devs job? Well if there isn't enough vocal outcry for it then I guess not. Still to me it would be interesting to have that data available as something to help waylay any more talk when this conversation inevitably comes up again.
And really, in the end, that is the only thing I am pointing out. This conversation comes about too often whether right or wrong. It would be great to have a data set to show for factual data at what the numbers look like.
I was just adding commentary to the on going discussion as the original poster had asked others experience. I do think it is worth noting, but I do not claim any issue. As euklid did an excellent job of giving examples and info on their process.
Now is it BGA's job to test whether or not the PHP-function random_int() works properly or just use one of the most trusted RNG generators? Well that really would come down to if the community as a whole made a statement against the system they used. (again not even something I am suggesting)
Finally, to euklid, thanks for all the info and links they are appreciated. My only other thought would be that there is the possibility for irregularities to exist in it's implementation of the game Catan. Again not something I am saying is true or isn't true. It would be interesting to have someone run the numbers over a 100, 300, or even 1000 game set just to get an idea of it. Is that the Devs job? Well if there isn't enough vocal outcry for it then I guess not. Still to me it would be interesting to have that data available as something to help waylay any more talk when this conversation inevitably comes up again.
And really, in the end, that is the only thing I am pointing out. This conversation comes about too often whether right or wrong. It would be great to have a data set to show for factual data at what the numbers look like.