Random number generation

[Wolftousen]

Ok, so I got tired of waiting for someone to respond on PEQ boards about the melee crit AAs not working properly. I have a 65 berserker and have bought all ranks of crit AAs through PoP, but I don't crit nearly often enough when compared to live.

So, i looked through the server code and low and behold found the problem. It has little to nothing to do with the crit AAs it actually is how random numbers are being generated. Srand and Rand are built into C for convenience and are actually horrible and slow methods to getting random numbers. Very very far from being true random...

I would suggest using this instead:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wagne...neTwister.html

This is probably causing issues with a lot of other stuff, like the PoP parchment turn ins for spells that give you the same spells over and over b/c it seems like they aren't balanced. It is because of srand/rand...

This should help...