The RNG for Enchanting is the worst RNG in the game.

• TheBoulder wrote on 2011-03-06 07:12

  Quote from foreignreign;361356:

  Uuuuh, yes you can. You can have an "RNG" that isn't actually random at all. The very nature of a computer (and algorithm) is that it's not random. I haven't looked into RNGs in awhile so I don't know how far they've come, but I doubt that all of them are what we would like to think of as "random."
  
  See: various Fire Emblem games' RNG.

  
  
  You're simply nitpicking there and ignoring his main point. Sure, the fundamental process of a computer means that random numbers (or other things in general) aren't really random. However, non-random as it may be, it is nigh impossible to trace the generations to a functional and exploitable pattern. By your definition, there is no such thing as a 'good' RNG then, since the generated numbers any machine generates aren't truly random.
  The point was that a 'bad' RNG doesn't behave the way it's supposed to behave, i.e failing a 100% success rate objective or passing a 0% success rate objective.
• foreignreign wrote on 2011-03-06 18:10

  Quote from TheBoulder;361826:

  However, non-random as it may be, it is nigh impossible to trace the generations to a functional and exploitable pattern. By your definition, there is no such thing as a 'good' RNG then, since the generated numbers any machine generates aren't truly random.

  
  
  It's pretty clearly possible if you have the algorithm.
• Andy-Buddy wrote on 2011-03-06 19:36

  Quote from foreignreign;362163:

  It's pretty clearly possible if you have the algorithm.

  
  
  And still, you will be unable to find if there is a pattern, since there will likely be many enchants between every time you do an enchant.
• TheBoulder wrote on 2011-03-07 02:39

  Quote from foreignreign;362163:

  It's pretty clearly possible if you have the algorithm.

  
  
  The basis for your argument are that you actually have the algorithm, and you're the only one using the algorithm (i.e there is no one else using the enchant system). Both are fundamentally flawed arguments.
  You still haven't addressed the actual point either.
• Masterdo wrote on 2011-03-07 20:57

  Quote from Andy-Buddy;362386:

  And still, you will be unable to find if there is a pattern, since there will likely be many enchants between every time you do an enchant.

  
  
  They probably have only one RNG working for everything random in the game too. Like loots, boss damage, etc. Making it even less likely you can gather data on it.
  
  Yes in various games like Fire Emblem or Pokemon, the RNGs have been reversed engineered. It's not hard since one player controls all the queries to the RNG. Video games usually use Linear Congruential Generators or some implementation of Mersenne Twister. They are both pretty easy to crack given enough time and sequential outputs, but you are never going to get that from a mmo since you are not alone querying it.
  
  The OP will just have to get lucky :p