RE: [Bug-gnubg] Recent RGB posting on "Change Dice" Option

[Øystein Johansen]

>===== Original Message From "Ian Dunstan" <address@hidden> =====
> Re: PROGRAMMING IDEA INSTEAD OF MANUAL DICE
> My idea is to not have one dice text file but several, perhaps 5 or
> more, files which store (say) 1000 rolls each in them. A paranoid user
> can simply toggle between the 5 pre-determined dice text files anytime
> he wants to, as he sees fit.

I'm speaking for myself, and I'm sure I won't waste my time on implementing
this. Not that I don't think it will work or I think it is a bad idea, (I
really think it is a good idea), but it won't stop the complaining.

Once I though that a open source backgammon project couldn't be accused for
cheating with the dice. Now I know better.

Here's my opinion: As long as the as there are computer bots there will be
complaining about the dice. These complains comes from beginners and novice
players. Have you ever heard Neil Kazaross or Kit Woolsey complain about
cheating dice in the bots?

If we make another method for generating dice, be sure there will be another
idiot to still claim that gnubg cheats. This is the race between bot
developers stiving to make better idiot-proof dice generating algorithms, and
the Universe trying to produce bigger idiots. So far, the Universe is
winnning.

-Øystein

--
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to
build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying
to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
                                                   --Richard Cook