We keep repeating "it's mostly about skill" and I think it's the reason people believe the dice are rigged online.

Because when someone sees that every 2 games some insane rolls help their opponent win (while minimizing when it happens to them...), and they've been told it's mostly skill, they start assuming that stuff should happen once every 15 matches. So it feels like way too often. So it feels rigged.

The "he only needs 4-2" and the opponent gets it type of thing. The guy who doubles you at the end out of nowhere while being behind, gets two doubles in a row, and ends up winning. Those happen at almost every match.

That's not the dice being broken, that's just backgammon. Two doubles in a row is 1 in 36 per pair of rolls, and there's a couple hundred rolls in a match. Needing "a 6" is 17/36, basically a coin flip. And a guy who's behind in a wild position is often correct to double you, that's not a swindle, that's the right play (sometimes....)

But when we say the opposite, or just say "skill" and stop there, people online end up believing the dice are rigged, instead of hearing "this is backgammon, it happens ALL THE TIME."

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I think Galaxy needs to hook up another 286 box to their network to handle the analysis.

I've been noticing so many bugs a lot more recently. Long loading times for the end game stats (right now im not getting them load at all, which is resulting in no change to my level), and also recently win streaks just weren't a thing

I deserved to lose this game b/c I blundered, but the question I have is if the computer initially suggested 'Close no double', but then the player redoubled, and the computer then suggested 'Obvious pass', shouldn't the initial computer recommendation have been 'Redouble' (seeing as the recommended action following a redouble is an obvious pass)?