Could be all three of us are on to something. Trying to calm down but may be that random number god can still occur, go figure. May be more to it then any of us suspect, I mean do we have the code for the server side of things?
But I do wish the game to come back because as I said, I remember seeing those kinds of things happening that some people say shouldn't be. I agree they shouldn't have but go figure they did.
It is certainly possible that we have observed something in the code. Problem is there is no code to check about it (well, NCSoft has it). Add to this that Arcana has spent considerable amounts of time looking into things that were similar when the game was going.
The absolute best way that I know to determine if there was indeed something strange in code is to "step through" the code itself. This is a function of most development environments where you can go line by line into the code while the code is in an active state thereby giving you all of the values going on in any single line of code.
The second best (and sometimes much easier) is through data mining. This is basically statistical analysis of the output of the code. In our case it's things like tohit probabilities. This is the information that we've been discussing throughout this argument.
Through this kind of analysis, Arcana (ville) has gotten quite a reputation for excellence and deservedly so not only with our little group but also with the dev team when the game was live.
Final point here, Arcana specifically stated that she does not ever say that people are wrong in their observations, but that we need some sort of evidence in order to positively conclude any observation.