The question has come up before on the forum, whether the build-in random number generator is fair. That is, does it generate the different crates with equal chance?
I created the crate counter
godymom to check this. It counts the number of generated crates of each type. Unfortunately, there is no room to count 'E' and 'F' as well (well, actually, there is, but it would ruin the visual comparison effect).
I ran it overnight, and got the following result:
[img=http://img278.imageshack.us/img278/9617/cratecountrq4.th.png]The numbers of the crates in the counters are not important, but their positions are. Think of it as a binary number; the absence of a crate is a '0', the presence of a crate is a '1'. Only the binary values are not 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, etc, but the Fibonacci series: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc. If a crate reaches the far end, then it has counted up to 28657.
As you can see, the results are pretty equal for all crates. The most common in this sample was '0' with 10262 occurences. The least common was '5' with 9960 occurences. The total number of counted crates is 161722, which is on average 10108 per type. Therefore, the maximum deviation from the average is 1,46 %. Not something to worry about.....
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