AI providing the same dices in the same situation

[moet]

I assume this is the expected outcome, but I never saw this in any other video wargames : If I save the current game, do a fire action, quit without saving, load the saved game and do the same fire action again, I get the same dice results. I wonder how you did program it?

[Tom Proudfoot]

Making sure both players in multiplayer have the same combat results requires the game to keep careful track of the random number seed. If you don't know what a random number seed is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_seed

At some point I realized that if the seed was also saved in the save game, I would be able to repeat many things people report by loading up their saves - most importantly, things the AI decides, since it autosaves right before the AI's turn - and this has been incredibly useful.

[CapnDarwin]

Fixed random seeds are in a good number of games. Latest XCOM uses it. We use it in Red Storm as well.

[moet]

Thanks for the lesson. [:)]
I didn't notice it with Red Storm.