What is used in the RNG seed?

What is used in the RNG seed?

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Posted by: Masterpyro.4310

Masterpyro.4310

Q:

This is more of a question for a developer than a community support team member, and I have asked this a few times in some other threads with no answer but if anyone from ANet can answer this in some way that would be great.

I have a friend that is always getting great loot, long after it seems I get hit with DR in an area. Yesterday he bought 50 unidentified dyes and ended up with Abyss, Celestial, and midnight ice, meanwhile I buy 20 and the best I get is midnight purple along with 6 other shades of baby purple and green colors and various other commons. This is the second time hes gotten both Abyss and Celestial, several other Midnight and other rare dyes, the other times were single dye opens and not a bulk opening. This is not the only occurance of this, it has been this way with loot with me and him since the release of the game.

I don’t mean to complain I am just interested in the programming behind the RNG system whether this is something that is truly as random as random can be in a computer system or that his chances could actually be better because something like his username or something specific to his account is used in the seed for the RNG system.

If any developer can answer this it would be greatly appreciated.