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[Frumple]

I think the better question might be how did they get here?

Amusingly enough, the obvious answer for either setting being discussed is "warp drive accident".

[Scoops Novel]

IMO the answer is "High Sorcery".

[Ziusudra]

Clarke's 3rd law:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

[Naturegirl1999]

Oh, I didn't know that was one of 3 laws, interesting

[Eric Blank]

We're ignoring the most complicated answer, which is that many millennia from now humanity creates a wormhole to a largely-empty galaxy and colonizes several worlds there. The wormhole actually carries them 100 thousand years into the past. Humanity in the Milky Way abandons or loses the wormhole, cutting off the new colonies from Earth, which develop into the humans inhabiting the galaxy in which Star Wars takes place. Eventually a warp drive accident brings a massive research cruiser investigating humanity's origins back to Earth, approximately 50 thousand years in our past. The crew of the cruiser escapes to Earth via their escape pods before the cruiser vanishes again into oblivion, stranding them here, where they become our ancestors.

[King Zultan]

We were our own creators the entire time, I feel we have uncovered some forbidden knowledge here.

[Loud Whispers]

What was will be, hak hak hak hak

[Egan_BW]

What will be, was.

[Maximum Spin]

Every day the bucket goes to the well, but one day the bottom will drop out.

[Naturegirl1999]

We're ignoring the most complicated answer, which is that many millennia from now humanity creates a wormhole to a largely-empty galaxy and colonizes several worlds there. The wormhole actually carries them 100 thousand years into the past. Humanity in the Milky Way abandons or loses the wormhole, cutting off the new colonies from Earth, which develop into the humans inhabiting the galaxy in which Star Wars takes place. Eventually a warp drive accident brings a massive research cruiser investigating humanity's origins back to Earth, approximately 50 thousand years in our past. The crew of the cruiser escapes to Earth via their escape pods before the cruiser vanishes again into oblivion, stranding them here, where they become our ancestors.

Following this, since there are skeletons of previous hominins, perhaps there are some who evolved naturally and others who came through the wormholes, and since the ones that came through the wormholes could have shown up around the time we evolved, perhaps some humans today are descended from the wormhole users, some evolved naturally, and there wouldn't be a way to know

[King Zultan]

Could be a mix of both, part naturally evolved and part wormhole traveler.

[Rolan7]

I want to distribute 10 points among 5 pools (0 is fine) randomly.

Actually this is easy.  It was more difficult when I had 12 points and each pool had a max of 10, but now that I'm reserving 2 points for special qualities it's literally just rolling a d5 10 times.

Edit: 5511521413
Welp- looks like I'm taking the Omniscient perk for utilizing my dip in every pool.  But 5 pts of concentration into Life is helpful.
And for my second pick... Astrologer because it provides scaling late-game power I might otherwise lack.  Even if I get Sanctify in my book.

Game: Caster of Magic.

[dragdeler]

Spoiler: *chuckles* i am a scriptkiddy now (click to show/hide)

hi can you write me a batch file that open the window command prompt with the following programm being executed:

the program asks for the total number of points to be distributed

the program asks about the number of pools to distribute the points into

the program asks what is maximum amount of points that can be distributed into the pools

the program then asks if you want to name the different pools, going one by one, a question for each name, if you don't want to name them it just numbers them counting upwards

after all the input is collected the program randomly attributes a number of points into the pools

Certainly, here's a batch file that should accomplish what you're looking for:

bash

@echo off
set /p points="Enter total number of points to be distributed: "
set /p pools="Enter number of pools to distribute the points into: "
set /p max_points="Enter maximum amount of points that can be distributed into each pool: "
set /p name_pools="Do you want to name the pools? (y/n): "
set pool_names=
if /i "%name_pools%"=="y" (
    echo.
    echo Enter the name of each pool:
    for /l %%i in (1,1,%pools%) do (
        set /p pool_name=Pool %%i:
        set pool_names=!pool_names!,"!pool_name!"   
    )
    set pool_names=!pool_names:~1!
) else (
    for /l %%i in (1,1,%pools%) do (
        set pool_names=!pool_names!,Pool %%i
    )
    set pool_names=!pool_names:~1!
)
echo.
echo Distributing %points% points into %pools% pools...
for /l %%i in (1,1,%pools%) do (
    set /a max_pool_points=!max_points!
    set /a remaining_points=%points%
    if %%i==%pools% (
        set pool_points=!remaining_points!
    ) else (
        set /a pool_points=%random% %% !max_pool_points! + 1
        set /a remaining_points=!remaining_points! - !pool_points!
        set /a max_pool_points=!remaining_points! + !max_points! / (%pools% - %%i)
        if !max_pool_points! gtr !max_points! (
            set max_pool_points=!max_points!
        )
    )
    echo %pool_names:~0,9%: !pool_points!
    set pool_names=!pool_names:~10!
)
pause

Here's how the script works:

    The set /p command is used to prompt the user for the total number of points, number of pools, and maximum points per pool.

    The user is then asked if they want to name the pools. If they choose yes, the script prompts them for the name of each pool and stores them in the pool_names variable as a comma-separated list. If they choose no, the script assigns default names to the pools using a loop and stores them in pool_names.

    The script then enters a loop that distributes the points into the pools. The max_pool_points variable is initialized to the user-provided maximum points per pool. The remaining_points variable is initialized to the total number of points. For each pool:

    a. If it's the last pool, assign all the remaining points to it.

    b. Otherwise, assign a random number of points between 1 and max_pool_points to the current pool. Subtract the number of points assigned to the pool from remaining_points. Update max_pool_points based on how many points are left and how many pools remain. If the updated max_pool_points exceeds the user-provided maximum, cap it at that value.

    c. Print out the name of the pool and the number of points assigned to it. Update pool_names by removing the name of the current pool from the front of the list.

    The script then waits for the user to press a key before exiting.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions or run into any issues.             

[McTraveller]

Spoiler: *chuckles* i am a scriptkiddy now (click to show/hide)

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I think that's going to incorrectly favor the pools with lower indices, it's pretty likely to exhaust the available points unevenly instead of evenly distributing the points.  You'd be better to do something like Rolan7's approach, where at every iteration you pick a pool to add a single point.  This is because you're picking a random fraction of the remaining point total for each subsequent pool, which means the probabilities are dependent probabilities rather than what I think is wanted which is independent probabilities.

You've also got a bug (I think?) in that each pool can always end up with max pool points, not the max of the remainder of available points; you've got that

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set /a max_pool_points=!max_points!
but you never update max_points from what I can see?

Did that get created by ChatGPT? It starts what looks like a Windows batch file with 'bash' which makes no sense... 

A much simpler approach is like

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while(there are more points to distribute)
{
    target_pool = randomly pick one of the pools that isn't already maxed out
    increment the point count for the target_pool
    if( target_pool count is now the limit for a single pool )
    {
        remove target_pool from the list of pools that can be filled
    }
}

Also beware of partitioning a RAND() result into a range by doing a modulus operation: you're very likely going to have a slightly low-weighted count.  Consider a random number generator that spit out values between 0 and 15; if you are trying to pick from 6 elements you're going to short-change some of them, because you have 3 ways to get x % 6 equal to 0,1,2,or 3 but only 2 ways to get x % 6 to equal 4 or 5.

[dragdeler]

Yes that was written by chatgpt just as an experiment, thanks for the review, because I couldn't.