Algorithm Improvement
I'm sure you're getting a lot of complaints about how one-sided your algorithm is not being impartial and often times screwing over players with land draws that should not be happening in a purely random sample - so my complaint can be added to that pile.
But, an idea for changing the algorithm to improve randomization would be having the program assign a number to each card remaining in a deck and pile shuffling the cards into X amount of piles (let's say 6). It can repeat this process Y amount of times then take the middle of the pile and put those cards on top. A better template would be from the card shuffler for poker sets from stores.
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Sindrelari#41376 commented
I totally believe in this. The fact that decks with over 100 cards always draw the perfect answer and hand every match is proof this game is rigged. You're worse off playing 60 cards with how bad Wizards is at programming.
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DarkWo1f98#21957 commented
The shuffler is broken in 100% of my games I will draw only lands and die to an opponent who gets the perfect curve and draws, or I’ll draw no lands and be left on two for the whole game. Mtg arena is starting to become a wast of my time cause it acts nothing like the normal game of magic. Fix the shuffler cause clearly there are land problems in your game and they need to be fixed I’ve paid to do like 14 drafts and this has been my experience every single time. Fix your game!!!!
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rzmf#67923 commented
Hey there,
I thought maybe this morning was an exception with 14 of 15 games on the draw, so I tried again this afternoon: Result: 10 games, 9 on the draw, mostly again Mono-Red. This is just ridiculous... Gets worse from day to day. Used to really enjoy playing Arena, but nowadays it's more a torture that anything else.
Is this already the influence of Hasbro to rig the game towards pay gamers? If yes, please tell the community honestly so we can spend our time with another game which is not rigged!
I will also play Mono-Red from now on and concede at once if I'm not on the play. Will take 100 games, but I will somehow get 15 games on the play to win the 15 daily matches.
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rzmf#67923 commented
Hi guys,
are you freaking kidding me? 15 games today, 14 times on the draw!!!
What is this?? Shouldn't it be 50% for all players in the end? I can't believe this. -
Venom##66580 commented
26 times in a row I`m on the draw. This is not random anymore.
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leitocore#59465 commented
this is a nightmare
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leitocore#59465 commented
I agree
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DefyingMara#17030 commented
I should not have to play VS mono red 8 out of ten games and also on the draw in 7 of the 8 mono red games. Un rig your Bo1 matches and make it if you went first in the last game you get matched with someone that went second there last game and now you go second and they get to go first, you know rotate on the play on the draw and stop this rigging towards mono red.
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Loneriver#88371 commented
DON'T KID YOURSELF, MTG ARENA HAS NO CARD SHUFFLE, it's not even a NON-RANDOM SHUFFLE. The software is selecting the next card on every turn.
I've gotten four of the same card at the start of a game, then three each of two other cards in the following draws. That's not random, it's statistically impossible. This can only be caused by software algorithm.The game software controls the outcome of games, not the decks or players!
COME ON WIZARDS MAKE IT PUBLIC, NO RANDOM ANYTHING IN ARENA! -
SexyBoo4RU#97772 commented
I would love to be able to rank up in ranked play but this in hendered when i lose 99% of the time even though my decks are perfectly balanced between all types of cards. I am asking you PLEASE FIX!
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SexyBoo4RU#97772 commented
Shuffling AI update PLEASE! Seems that everyone else who has the same numbers of cards in their deck as mine gets all the perfect cards everytime. I go round after round and either get all lands for numerous turns or NO lands at all. Either isnt helpful and doesnt make gameplay enjoyable. You push for people to play and want to play this game, but this needs to be FIXED.
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Gus#41770 commented
When playing Premier MOM Draft, starting on 4/22, all my mulligan attempts lead to drawing the exact same set of 7 cards, except now having to keep 6. I would like to be compensated for 2 game losses due to this bug.
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Dmack665#71970 commented
its obvious that the shuffler is nerfed to protect your BS 60 card dream when its no different to have 2 of each card up to 60 as it would to have 4 of each at 120 its obvious your programmers or think tanks are stumped to the point that they somewhere down the line said the **** with it and Nerfed the shuffler to protect the smaller decks . in real life we all know we would use more cards if we could afford them hence where the arena has lost the values of MATHMATICS the back bone to the game in real life so ... return math to law it should be level the playing field and break the ranks into DECK SIZE ranks simple you wanna use 60 to 100 one rank 100 to 150, 150 to 250 .... the three seprate demons ... let alone how easy it would be to direct the network traffic that should be completly vmware in my opinion you would be able to divide the players to groups that would make server traffic easier to manage ... lets face it .. it takes longer to load a 150 cards in the deck builder then to load 60... you need to bring the integrity back to this game I can watch the screen and see where your failing ... I can tell you the patterns of your shuffler I can damb near call the card before it hits the field because A: I know everyone of these decks when I see em I throw the stone brain like a **** shoot that never misses and everyone is using someone elses **** so its damb repetitive B: I'm a idoit savant with computers since the commador 64 and the 486DX266 I speak DOS better then english the infastructure will fold eventually if you don virtualize it .. the lags are every where from the search bar to the citazens crowbar which btw nerfed my whole field last week when I tried to use it all of a suddon all my land is gone and I was killing their **** the cards come out so fast your barely able to keep up stop me when ever I can do this all day
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fullofstars#29110 commented
I have just lost 15 matches in a row on Arena. This would never happen if I were playing paper Magic. WTF WOTC?!
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Poobs7er#99959 commented
This game is obviously rigged, I've not spent any money for over a month (I have all cards from the set) I am lucky to win 1 match because the shuffler is fixing the games. Drawing two lands all game in a 27 land deck (got me to mythic twice when buying gems funny that) this has happened 10 games in a row plus 4 of those games were against the same opponant (mind boggling concidering the large player base world wide). I have recorded these matches and have the stats from when I was buying gems to when I've stopped which is pretty revealing how bad the fixing of matches really is. I know you will not respond to this but if it continues I will enquire with trading standards in regards to this
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Adeseus#19846 commented
I want to report a problem not a suggestion. I just had 3 games played in a draft. 40 card deck, 16 lands. I lost all three games and I had 27 lands out of the 45 cards I had in hand or drew, I didn't even get to play the game. How am I going to win when all my play cards are on the bottom of my deck three games in a row. Whats the deal. How do I know I am not being cheated.
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silmarilion6#37339 commented
Can you get rid of those long streaks of starting second. This would make Arena a much more balanced experience as being secong for long peroids of time is very frustrating.
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silmarilion6#37339 commented
I'm starting second in way to many of my games in play mode. I'm sick of those very long peroids of being second. This is making the game almost unplayable and very misrable .fix this please.
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Allewri#52288 commented
I've been specifically drafting using 15 lands in a 40 card decks. I've drawn +7-8 lands in the top 15 cards in the majority of games. This is a pattern and Wizards is either blind or it's intentional.
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Chi-Ang#08915 commented
capture log