Battle "dice" - is it "rigged" somehow?

[Aquila SPQR]

It is suppoused to be "random" - like normal "dice". But I've noticed plenty of battles when I had 1 in a row. First phase: me - 1, enemy - 8. Second phase: me - 1, enemy - 6. Third phase: me - 1, enemy - 9 etc (I have one such battle right now - about fifth phase in a row where I have 1).

I know it is only a dice and that such things can happen (why not? There are equal chances that it'll be 1, 3 or 7 and chances for 1 are - if dice has 10 "points" - 10%), but still - this is quite suspicious because it's only a game. I'm not throwing anything (any "dice") - computer does that. And since it's only a machine doing what people programmed - maybe there's some sort of a "cheat" there to increase difficulty? Because in my battles things like that happen quite often...

 

[xcrissxcrossx]

It's not rigged. There have been tests to check it and all of the dice are random.

Just bad luck.

 

[ktx2skd]

Every three days will use the same dice roll. Could that be the issue?

 

[midget_roxx]

Selective bias at work here. The same sort of thread pops up in civfanatics every couple of months from players who are convinced that RNG is against them

 

[Icendoan]

That and the sheer number of dice rolls in the average game means you're more likely to see any given combination. I wouldn't be too surprised if someone has 1-9-1-9-1-9-1-9 and then ran from the battle.

 

[varonel]

Not to mention when you get 9 9 9 9, you don't complain
People tend to notice when things do NOT go their way.

 

[Aquila SPQR]

I wouldn't call it a "selective bias", because I'm aware of it. I'm also aware thet people tend to remember one things (mostly connected to strong emotions - like outrage in this particular example ) and forget other (less emotional) - and I had that in mind when I was writing OP. I wrote it because such bad rolls happen to me rather often even when I look closely and remember all rolls in all battles. Previously I had other battle where I had various rolls - 1, 6 or 4. And I do not forget about it. I'm just curious because such "strange" and "suspicious" rolls (when I have 1 in a row in five or six phases) still happen suspiciously often.

But if it has been tested and there's no sign of AI cheating here - then it's probably just a bad luck based on rather small number of possible outcomes (only 10 if dice has 10 points - or 9 if it has only 9 - I never really cared how much it has).