Recent posts by emerald000 on Kongregate

Topic: Tyrant / chance to get specific card from "keep the cards" tournament enter

Since commons and uncommons are not redrawn in case of duplicates, the odds of getting at least one specimen of a specific card is:

Common: 1 – (1 – 3/61)^4 = 18.2679%
Uncommon: 1 – (1 – 2/37)^4 = 19.9308%

For the rares, since you cannot get twice the same rare, you can assume you open a single booster with either 3 or 4 rares (depending if you get a legendary):

Rares: (3*.13 + 4*.87) / 28 = 13.8214%

The legendaries are the easiest, you have 13% chance to get a random one:

Legendaries: .13/5 = 2.6%

That should be correct unless I failed to input the numbers correctly.

Topic: Tyrant / Automatic deck optimization

Originally posted by planczl:

Originally posted by leftylink:

Originally posted by MagoMerlino:

Anzix the new commander cannot be found by the optimizer, what i should do to fix it?

Hunterhogan has the right idea here, as does my post from a page ago:

You should also add it in “std::set<unsigned> top_commanders” in “tyrant_optimize.cpp”. Now program doesn’t check them as replacement because they are not there. Maybe there is no need to restrict searching to limited set of commanders. I know that it will make optimization longer, but have no idea how much.

This should also explain a bug I was encountering. I was trying to simulate a deck for a tournament. It was suggesting using commander A with win rate at around 85%. If I manually replaced the commander with Commander B I had, it gave me 95% win rate. I guess that would be because there exists a commander C strictly better than B and because of that it wasn’t considering B, even though C wasn’t in the pool. (And yes, I triple-checked to make sure commander B was listed in owned_cards.txt)

While on the subject, it would be great is there could be a flag that could be set to optimize for tournament. There is no way currently to make the attacking deck not count down its timer on the first turn.

Topic: Tyrant / Evaluate Decks (game simulator)

I’m pretty sure that if you post a hash with a version more recent or with a higher simulations count, il will replace the old one.

Topic: Technical Support / Any way to keep Flash cookies intact?

Yes, I indeed patched manually, as I like knowing what I put in my system.

Let’s all hope a setting to do this gets added soon to Firefox.

Topic: Technical Support / Any way to keep Flash cookies intact?

This is great! I added the patch and I hope it will keep my saves from deleting.

I am going to need to do this every time Firefox upgrades, right?

Topic: Technical Support / Any way to keep Flash cookies intact?

I haven’t done any of this and Firefox is already set not to delete anything. Yet, my saves got deleted. This is pretty annoying.

Topic: Technical Support / Any way to keep Flash cookies intact?

Since Flash 10.3, Flash cookies (containing saved games) can be deleted by the web browser itself. That makes it really easy to accidentally delete your games. I don’t know what exactly triggers it, but since a week ago, my games have been deleted twice. I haven’t even manually cleared cache/cookies or done anything that could affect it, but still, no more saved games. At first, I was wondering what made my games disappear twice in a week when before that, I was able to keep my games for over a year. Then I played Villainous, which explains the problem perfectly in its Updates section.

I was wondering if there was anything that could be done to stop this from happening. It makes it almost impossible to play long games, as you can lose your game anytime. I plan on downgrading Flash to 10.2, but I thought that maybe there was a better way to achieve this without resorting to downgrading.

I am currently running on Firefox, but I can change browsers if it works for it.

Topic: Anti-Idle: The Game / Official Suggestions Thread

One thing I would like to see is the ability to hide completed achievements. It would make the navigation in the menu much simpler. A way to sort by type/name/% would also be interesting.

Topic: Kongregate / Kongregate Sidebar Firefox Extension

Wow. This is wonderful. I have no other words for it. Also, I am running it perfectly under Ubuntu 7.10 (Gusty Gibbons).

Keep up the good work!