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I call myself a pro gamer gut I literally have no idea what rng means or what it stands for.
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What does rng mean?
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BigBadButterfree
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Basically it just references any way the game is random. Think of Pokemon. When you walk into the tall grass, a battle is started. But the Pokemon you run into isn't (usually) scripted. It is pulled from a list of possible Pokemon at random and given an appropriate level, also at random. The rng is what does this. The games code needs a way to "generate" these "random" aspects using "numbers."
In the context of AC, RNG dictates anything random from your initial town setup, villagers moving in, to bugs and fish that appear. Basically anything that is not a set-in-stone encounter is at the mercy of the RNG gods.
In the context of AC, RNG dictates anything random from your initial town setup, villagers moving in, to bugs and fish that appear. Basically anything that is not a set-in-stone encounter is at the mercy of the RNG gods.
RNG is a random number generator. It's a seemingly random sequence of numbers that games use for all kinds of elements that are supposed to be unpredictable to the player.
Since computers are actually unable to just spit out anything truly random they are usually actually based on things like the system clock (which changes incredibly quickly) or in other cases on the previous number + some fancy math that makes it so that we can't tell what the number is going to be.
Here's a hugely oversimplied example: Let's say the game wants to decide if the flower you watered yesterday is going to spawn a new one today.
It consults the RNG, which will return a calculated number between say, 1 and 100, and if the number happens to be above 85, it makes you a new flower, which means there is a 15% chance of you getting a new flower today. Since you don't know how it picked the number (or are unable to influence it), it will be random to you.
Since computers are actually unable to just spit out anything truly random they are usually actually based on things like the system clock (which changes incredibly quickly) or in other cases on the previous number + some fancy math that makes it so that we can't tell what the number is going to be.
Here's a hugely oversimplied example: Let's say the game wants to decide if the flower you watered yesterday is going to spawn a new one today.
It consults the RNG, which will return a calculated number between say, 1 and 100, and if the number happens to be above 85, it makes you a new flower, which means there is a 15% chance of you getting a new flower today. Since you don't know how it picked the number (or are unable to influence it), it will be random to you.
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Its basically like luck.
"My rng in this game is really bad"
"thanks rng for the low loot roll."
its just luck really and how much the rng gods like you.
like they hate me. i have yet to have a meteor shower in game.
Its basically like luck.
"My rng in this game is really bad"
"thanks rng for the low loot roll."
its just luck really and how much the rng gods like you.
like they hate me. i have yet to have a meteor shower in game.
Le Ham
now please I will accept the money-payment
To offer a few more practical examples of RNG at work:
- In turn-based combat systems like Pokemon, RNG is involved in the accuracy of attacks. The game has to roll a number to determine whether your attack will hit or miss. That number gets compared against the product of some algebraic equation that takes accuracy and evasion stats and other stuff into account. Then, if the number the game rolls is higher than that fancy math number, the attack lands. If not, it misses.
- When people talk about mystery islands and how the game rolls species first, that's RNG. While I don't know exact numbers, let's say the game rolls for a number between 1 and 35 (or however many species there are lol) and each number represents a species, so if it lands on, say, 1, you get an anteater. The game then rolls a second time for however many members of the species there are, and again let's say each number corresponds to a villager, so it rolls, say, 2 and you get Anabelle. It's harder to get a specific villager within more populated species (cats, cubs, etc) because there are more options, in the form of numbers, the game could land on.
- In turn-based combat systems like Pokemon, RNG is involved in the accuracy of attacks. The game has to roll a number to determine whether your attack will hit or miss. That number gets compared against the product of some algebraic equation that takes accuracy and evasion stats and other stuff into account. Then, if the number the game rolls is higher than that fancy math number, the attack lands. If not, it misses.
- When people talk about mystery islands and how the game rolls species first, that's RNG. While I don't know exact numbers, let's say the game rolls for a number between 1 and 35 (or however many species there are lol) and each number represents a species, so if it lands on, say, 1, you get an anteater. The game then rolls a second time for however many members of the species there are, and again let's say each number corresponds to a villager, so it rolls, say, 2 and you get Anabelle. It's harder to get a specific villager within more populated species (cats, cubs, etc) because there are more options, in the form of numbers, the game could land on.
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