I'm sure Bungie hires an individual person for each account to choose what you'll get next.

i find that I have long spells of getting nothing, then an exotic. did the Nightfall on Tuesday, got 10 energy. told myself I'll get an exotic tomorrow. played one VOG run yesterday, my friends got nothing but the usual (chatterwhite), I walked out with a Suros Regime, VoC and Corrective Measure. this has happened a few times. just have faith.

The only weapon I have ever received two of is the found verdict:p

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

a few hours ago I got 1 vex methoclast, ice brekaer, Predyth Time piece, time breaker, shards with my warlock 30 mins ago I got 1 vex methoclast, Ship, shards with my Titan this is random?

There is no such thing as a truly random number generator, all RNG have a pattern,-I've taken college courses on the subject. They usually follow several different sequences that make them appear random when in fact, in can be predicted

Apophenia /æpɵˈfiːniə/ is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. The term is attributed to Klaus Conrad[1] by Peter Brugger,[2] who defined it as the "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness", but it has come to represent the human tendency to seek patterns in random information in general, such as with gambling and paranormal phenomena.[3] Meanings and formsEdit In 1958, Klaus Conrad published a monograph titled Die beginnende Schizophrenie. Versuch einer Gestaltanalyse des Wahns ("The onset of schizophrenia. Attempt to shape analysis of delusion", not yet translated or published in the English language),[1] in which he described in groundbreaking detail the prodromal mood and earliest stages of schizophrenia. He coined the word "Apophänie" to characterize the onset of delusional thinking in psychosis. This neologism is translated as "apophany", from the Greek apo [away from] + phaenein [to show], to reflect the fact that the schizophrenic initially experiences delusion as revelation.[4] In contrast to epiphany, however, apophany does not provide insight into the true nature of reality or its interconnectedness, but is a "process of repetitively and monotonously experiencing abnormal meanings in the entire surrounding experiential field", which are entirely self-referential, solipsistic and paranoid: "being observed, spoken about, the object of eavesdropping, followed by strangers".[5] In short, "apophenia" is a misnomer that has taken on a bastardized meaning never intended by Conrad when he coined the neologism "apophany". In 2008, Michael Shermer coined the word "patternicity", defining it as "the tendency to find meaningful patterns in meaningless noise".[6][7] In The Believing Brain (2011), Shermer says that we have "the tendency to infuse patterns with meaning, intention, and agency", which Shermer calls "agenticity".[8] In 2011, parapsychologist David Luke proposed that apophenia is one end of a spectrum and that the opposite behaviour, the tendency to attribute chance probability to apparently (assuming that there exist relation that one can't currently explain) patterned or related data, can be called "randomania". Luke indicates that this often happens in the hand waving away of everyday phenomena, such as apparent dream precognition, and that this occurs even if research suggests that the phenomena may be genuine, however such researches are often questioned (for instance by anomalistic psychologists).[9] Statistics In statistics, apophenia is an example of a Type I error – the identification of false patterns in data.[10] It may be compared with a so-called false positive in other test situations. Pareidolia Main article: Pareidolia Pareidolia is a type of apophenia involving the perception of images or sounds in random stimuli, for example, hearing a ringing phone while taking a shower. The noise produced by the running water gives a background from which the brain perceives there to be patterned sound of a ringing phone. A more common human experience is perceiving faces in inanimate objects: the headlights and grill of an automobile can appear to be "grinning", individuals around the world can see the "Man in the Moon".[11] Gambling Apophenia is heavily documented as a source of rationale behind gambling, with gamblers imagining they see patterns in the occurrence of numbers in lotteries, roulette wheels, and cards.[12] One variation of this is known as the Gambler's Fallacy. Hidden meanings Fortune telling and divination of the wishes of the spirit world are often based upon discerning patterns produced by what otherwise would thought to be meaningless, chance events. The concept of a Freudian slip is based on what had previously dismissed as meaningless errors as containing meaning for the unconscious, and likewise for The Interpretation of Dreams.

My first Nightfall was just like that, my friend got 10 shards and I got 7 energy. However my last run with 2 other guys was the total opposite, all 3 of us got exotics. Player 1: Truth Player 2: Hardlight Me: Thunderlord I was surprised as I've never seen all 3 people get Exotics, it's usually 1 or maybe 2.

It's possible thatit's a pseudo-RNG like Pokemon's. If that's true, then we should be able to find ways to abuse the RNG aswell, which would really break the game.

I brought suros from xur, went and did raid and got it dropped from aethon.. Aethon like 2 hrs later

I do find it suspicious, but not enough of a sample size to really make a sound correlation. As for me though, my duplicates have been: 5 Hardlight 12 Icebreakers 3 Vex Mythocast 3 The Last Word. And some other duplicates I can't remember offhand. I have broken most of them down, but usually keep at least 2 so I don't have to transfer weapons as often.

Photo bucket is terrible

The people you talk to already complain that they're getting the same thing over and over. It's confirmation bias. The RNG model accounts for this case. If no one got the same thing over and over, you should be worried.

You're right about one thing. It's not really random. It's an algorithm that is seeded with a number to start with. It's usually the time which makes the seed different everytime it's ran. However, if you were to set the seed to be a specific value then you will always get the exact same numbers generated. This is how minecraft works in building worlds. If you set the seed it will always build the same world. Cracking the algorithm would be next to impossible in Destiny though as you don't see the numbers being generated. Usually probabilities are used so that if the random float value between 0.0f and 1.0f is < .75 then it's yes. otherwise No. This means that it's a 75% chance of it happening. There are a lot of float values that are between 0.0f and .75f and you would never know which specific one you got. On top of this if they are using random value rolls for other things that use the same random number generator then the simple order of things happening would mess up and alter the rolls. There is no true random in computers. The randomness that they use does not strain the servers though it's a basic simple process.

I agree it's broke as hell and Bungie should fix the raid gear part of VoG

Well you are right its not random, in fact there is no such thing in a program. All it is, is an algorithm that we have not figured out. What am trying to say is you could figure out the actual order and rarity of each item and chest and all variables really if you knew the correct equation.

RNG-Random number generator. There is A way to calculate the odds of getting a certain item in a game with rng based on their assigned values to create a formula, but no one has figured it out since it lies in the code of Destiny. Either way, you're pretty damn lucky if you ask me.