Impossible to recruit "chief"?

[AngleWyrm]

Probably whatever the most widely used default RNG is for C# Run length is a useful property of random numbers. It measures the length of consecutive increasing/decreasing rolls before the next number changes direction, and as it turns out there's a pattern to that distribution. Winning/losing streaks appear at a rate of about half the previous length. So for a given set of tries, if there were 20 runs of only 1 before changing direction, then there should be about 10 runs of length 2, 5 of length 3 and so on. So it can be used to measure processes for expected behavior.

[khearn]

Does the storyteller have any influence on recruitment? I know that they can limit captures by insta-killing downed pawns if you are getting too close to whatever arbitrary limit the storyteller wants to impose, but I don't know if they double up by putting their thumb on the scale for recruitment attempts as well.

I would hope that they'd do so my lowering the percent chance that is displayed, rather than showing 1% and really making it 0.1% by fudging the rolls.

[Mehni]

Does the storyteller have any influence on recruitment?

Yep. See here.

I know that they can limit captures by insta-killing downed pawns if you are getting too close to whatever arbitrary limit the storyteller wants to impose, but I don't know if they double up by putting their thumb on the scale for recruitment attempts as well.

I would hope that they'd do so my lowering the percent chance that is displayed, rather than showing 1% and really making it 0.1% by fudging the rolls.

From what I can tell from the decompiled source code, the DeathOnDownedChance is completely separate from population intent.