[url=https://www.reddit.com/r/RNG/wiki/seeds/?rdt=49563]Seeds[/url]
This is a link to a basic overview of PRNG systems like the ones used in Destiny 2.
@Bungie, you have players that are smart enough to figure this stuff out.
Like Mossy, you need to get ahead of this.
If people are seeded when they make their accounts or characters... like Diablo 1's PRNG for loot drops; you need to figure out how to reseed those players that are in bad seeds.
Which you identified existed.
You should not hide this.
Computers and Human Beings are terrible at randomization... most RNG in games is PRNG... Pseudo Random Number Generator is what PRNG stands for.
It simulates 'random' from a predefined or dynamic data set. The size of that data set or scope of the algorithm gives the illusion of randomness, but it is not random at all. If you know the seed you're in and the coding conventions every result is completely predictable.
If you're in a bad seed where certain combinations are prohibitively excluded, as you represented during "weight gate", the only solution is resetting/changing that bad seeding.
It matters how you seed. These concerns are never going to go away unless you explain it better to the player base. And if players, characters, or accounts are STILL in bad seeds, you need to fix that.
@Bungie... for your consideration, please and thank you 😇👍💠.
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