Talk:Spring Mysteries/@comment-37054147-20190413145216

This is for those that have a hard time getting a specific anomaly to appear.

Just understanding the numbers. There are 16 modes/anomalies. If each has an equal chance to appear then there is only a 6.25% chance that any given mode/anomaly will appear on a location. More then likely they do not all have an equal chance, and there may be some chance that "Words" mode has a significanly higher chance of appearing. The actual number is probably much lower than 6.25% for any given anomaly.

This is conjecture, but I believe that the random number generator in the game sucks. Why do I say this? Because I have hudreds of Invisible Ink items for the Secret Organization/Mobile Phone collection. How did I get these? I got them all from the Collector Totem. If I start up the game and the Collector Totem is charged and I click on it immediatly I will always get an Invisible Ink. This happens every time without fail and has been happening for a long as I can remember. I have also gotten a lot of these by visiting. If I start up the game and someone has visited me and I immediatly visit them back, if I get a collection iteme the first one will always be an Invisible Ink. If I do other things, make the random number generator do some work, then I click the totem or do the visit then I get something else. What does this mean to me? It tells me that the random number generator is initialized at the same point every time I start the game. Random number generators must be initialized and the programmers probably did a bad job of initialization, using a fixed seed for example will do this, either that or the generator is poorly designed.

So, what does this mean? It means that you can see the same patterns repeat themselves if you exit the game and start it back up frequently and then do the some things you did the last time you started up. This can have an impact on everything that depends on the random number generator, including the appearence of anomalies.

So, my suggestion, if you seem to have problems getting an anomaly to appear and you also have a habit of restarting the game often. Instead of exiting the game leave it running and see if that changes anything for you.