Noticed a strange thing...

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  • Vhailorx
    Vhailorx Posts: 6,085 Chairperson of the Boards
    polecat wrote:

    I'm not saying there's a conspiracy here or anything but it's also not difficult to lean odds one way or another. When the factor is slightly adjusted, you could end up with player or AI advantages, higher tile saturation of one or mismatched colors, etc. Done right and with subtlety, it will function as a variable - yet not entirely random - reinforcement schedule. Highly addictive. I'd be surprised if there was no form of house edge in this game.

    there IS a house edge in this game. there are lots of them. the ridiculously low drop rates from heroic tokens, the relatively low number of covers awarded for placement with each event, the 1250/2500 HP cost for 3*/4* covers, the shield system, the new shield cooldowns, the 7-day timer on opened covers, the escalating roster slot cost, the slow health recovery and expensive healthpack costs. These are all game mechanics that tilt heavily in favor of the developers. Why would they need to do secret, subtle probability shifts to screw the players. they already squeeze the players for money at every possible opportunity (and yet we keep playing!).

    Moreover, no individual players subjective experience of the cascade probability is ever reliable. We all remember (and get very frustrated about) bad enemy cascades that destroy us. We all gleefully take advantage of (and do not remember) helpful cascades that let us get through a level with minimal health lost. That is the problem with "Something bad happened to me, the AI is cheating!" threads.

    If you want to argue that the algorithm that generates tiles is less than random, let alone intentionally biased for or against one side, then I think you should at least try to rely on some evidence that is more than anecdotal observation.
  • Unknown
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    Arimis Thorn wrote:
    Definitely feels this way for me. I just commented on a thread that AI teams 30-50 levels below my team and kicking the **** out of me making it nearly impossible to progress through the event.

    And I keep saying "Eff this cheating game. I'm done!" and then pick it back up 2 minutes later because clearly I have a problem.
    I lost against a cStorm/mnMags team in the luke cage pvp. Could not get red for star spangled avenger

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