Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Forcing Randoms

I'm part of a clan which is trying to get up and running. We had a meeting in an out of the way room and about ten members attended. We chated, conducted clan business, and used the emote animation more than I have ever seen; but what I wanted to mention here is the randoms.

The meeting took a little over 30 minutes and I had three random events: two dwarves and one mysterious man. I could see that other members attending the meeting were also getting a bunch of randoms : genies, swarms, killer chickens etc.
What's going on here?

Was the Jagex machine sending us randoms just because we were standing around talking? Were they checking to see if there was a human at the controls? Do they want to discourage these sort of chat sessions? Why don't I see this many random events happening to the folks who stand around outside banks?

Hmm. . . could you use this to somehow force random events?