Dice app or Dice?

By Darth Sanguis, in Star Wars: Armada

1 hour ago, Norell said:

It doesn't matter what method the program uses, its rolls bever will be as random as rolling dices. Plus rolling them by yourself feels sooooo satisfying :D

I agree with the general idea of rolling real physical dice, but I need to disagree on the random physical dice aspect.

Due to manufacturing methods, non-cubed dice (anything not six-sided) are difficult to balance especially for mass production. Nowhere was this more clear than upon winning the clear dice at 2016 regional events. Many players including myself posted on this very board that the die balance was visibly off and inconsistent.

Imagine that you could see the balance flaws in every die you own. If you truly valued consistently random dice, wouldn't you want to remove those flaws? For both sides?

Over the course of thousands of rolls, a solid dice app should have a small bias towards one result if any. But a poorly manufactured die will be vastly more consistent towards one result.

Here's a example from my own situation. The center bible of one of my black dice had gotten into an outside corner just below the surface. On the opposite side were two crit results and two blank results.

If your opponent at Worlds had a vastly higher chance to roll either blank results or black crits with rerolls, wouldn't you take notice?

I'm aware of the imbalance of real dices. I pointed it out in my firdt post in this topic.

But considering that most dices are more or less the same they are likey produce similar (and slightly different from the computer generated) results. Therefor I think that if you plan your fleet and want to know the expectable dice resuts to be as exactly as possible, you get more realistic results with real dices.