I "DO NOT" believe being chosen as imposter is completely random. "DISCUSS"

[Dominus Mortis]

I really want to hear your evidence of this. I will share mine.

I watched a streamer named "THump" play 10 hours of this last night. He was chosen as imposter twice in that 9 1/2 hours. He plays 10 person games with 2 imposters. That grants every player a 20% chance to become imposter under RNG. THump's imposter rate was around 3%. He was getting very angry about this but he was still addicted.

I had heard a rumor that earlier letters in the alphabet as the starting letter in your name seem to be chosen more often. I heard this rumor about a streamer named "xQcOW" because he was complaining about never being imposter. I watch his entire stream of the game from a couple of weeks ago to confirm this. His ingame name was "XQC". During that stream, he did not become imposter at all and about 20-25 games were played with 10 players and 2 imposters. he was also very angry about this 0% imposter rate.

His viewers made a joke that it was because every players had ealier letters in the alphabet as their starting letter in the name and urged him to change it. He changed his name to "ELGOBLIN." I noticed a vast improvement to his imposter rate (about 25%). He told his viewers that changing his name seems to have helped and he is happy. I watch a few more streams with his name and the imposter rate was still very consistant. He later changed his name to "A GOBLIN" which is his current name and his imposter rate seems to have edged near 30% of the streams I watched with this name.

Now i needed to prove this theory and I managed to thankfully get "THump's" attention. I mentioned his stream in the first paragraph which is the stream i used for this theory. During the first 6 hours of his stream he went by "THEBIGTEE" and became imposter once in that 6 hours. About 30 games were played. That is about a 3% imposter rate which is well below the 20% chance. He was also alphabetically in last place so under the rumor's logic he would be least likely to be chosen in the algorithm. I managed to get his attention after a few rounds of asking to change his name because i had a theory. He at first asked his teammates if because his name is last in the alphabet that he would be chose the least. They immediately said it should be completely random. He changed his name anyway because the chat pressured him to try.

He changed his name to "aAAAAA". At first 6 rounds go by and he still isn't imposter. His teammates ask what his crewmate streak in the settings was. This number was 24. This number would have been way higher if the 1 time he got imposter about 2 hours in didn't reset the streak. Chat every match spams "CREWMATE CARL" because of this absurdly low imposter chance which has dipped to 2% by now.

I'm losing hope of this theory now because 10 rounds have gone by and he is still crewmate carl. He finally gets his second imposter game of the 10 hour stream about 8 hours in. He is super hyped (I would be too with that abysmal rate). But 4 hours with the alphabetically superior name he is still getting a very low imposter rate of less than 7% with this name. His last two games he played last night he was imposter with the same other person twice in a row.

3/4 game he was imposter was with the name change and that was 4 hours of gameplay while his alphabetically inferior name had 1 imposter in 6 hours. That is a significant improvement

This theory seems to have be true because then i watch a streamer named "Acie". Her ingame name is "acie". I was interested in her stream because she seemed to have an insanely high imposter rate of 75%. of the first 12 games she played, she is imposter 9 times. I just mentioned this to her in chat and she agreed that it is rediculous how often she has been imposter. It's as if the game's algorithm was favoring her. her name is also alphabetically superior in terms of the rumor's logic.


TLDR : I am convinced there is an algorithm that chooses imposters and that it is not random. I could really use your thoughts because i think the alphabet has something to do with this

[Vadalken]

I think you should look into how the impostor is chosen in the game code. Coding something to be random is fairly easy and it would be realy wierd if the names of the players has any impact on the rng.

[Miciso]

50 games 2 imposter.
same team same people. so yeah something is very off....

[alex_ionut1976]

RNG is RNG, if different factors can change it its not called RNG anymore.
Ex: There is a "X%" chance you will get "Y" but if your name starts with "RANDOM LETTER" you have a higher chance. This is not true, just nonsense someone will say when he is mad.

[Natalya]

I believe in sosig supremacy

[Thundercracker]

Originally posted by Dominus Mortis:

tl/dr

you just posted a wall of text demonstrating confirmation bias.

RNG is RNG.

your homework is to learn the "gambler's fallacy."

[TheBioMan]

Seems like it's completely random to me. If there is an algorithm then they're doing a good job of hiding the fact.

[Submissive and breedable]

You've just described what "rng" means. The reason you're confused is that many other games use pseudo-rng which increases your chances to get a specific role every time you don't get to play it. Among us is just completely random, meaning that playing 100 games as crewmate in a row is just as likely as playing 100 games and being an impostor every other match

[VeilStrider]

OP is sus. Vote him.

[rdowg]

my name begins with the letter R, I have been chosen 6 out of the last twenty games I've played, 2 of them were in a row.

only 1-2/10 people are imposter at a time, of course your chances will be screwy

[This PC]

It is scientifically proven that human perception of randomness is biased.

[Myztkl©-Kev]

just because the percentage that you should be chosen in a 10 person 2 imposter game is 20% doesn't mean you will be chosen 20% of the time, that's kinda how randomness works.

[Grungler]

i played with name AaAaBb and never got impostor in 9 players with 3 impostors
after playing 15 games at all and plus i had 8 other friends on so it stayed the same and was private
rng sucks

[Thundercracker]

Originally posted by jdtuggey:

It is scientifically proven that human perception of randomness is biased.

might have to do with how the brain is programmed to find patterns, finding patterns being extremely important to survival.

[Grungler]

Originally posted by Dr Gori:

Originally posted by jdtuggey:

It is scientifically proven that human perception of randomness is biased.

might have to do with how the brain is programmed to find patterns, finding patterns being extremely important to survival.

example
human a sees creatures a and b drink water at a pond
human a goes their to hunt
human a sees less creature a stop going there from hunting
human a sees creature a stop going there
human a stops hunting there
human sees that creature a came back from not hunting
this was made without any knowing of what or how to explain or what it even is
prob really dumb
im gonna be really proud if this is correct

[[TIGS] starsrift]

The only strange RNG I have seen about who is imposter is that imposters are often the same multiple times in a row, which suggests to me that there's some "catch-up" code to ensure everyone has a chance at imposter. I'm not sure that it exists but I'm not fussled if it is.


OP, you are actually demonstrating gambler's fallacy. A 20% chance of being imposter doesn't mean that someone will be imposter 20% of the time or close to it. It means that every time they play, they have a one in five chance of being imposter. It is ludicrously, vastly within the bounds of probability that this comes out to 3% actually being imposter.