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Ban Randomseed

Ban Randomseed prevent other addons from seeding the RNG used by Garry's Mod. The default RNG isn't very good, but one of the issues it has that makes it bad is that when seeds that are very close by are used, the nth item after reseeding is not sufficiently random, for all values of n up to 30 on Linux. This can lead to a relatively similar role distribution in TTT or to other issues, as often the RNG is regularly reseeded with a timestamp. See this post[gist.github.com] for more context.

This addon proposes the nuclear option to solve bad RNG issues by completely forbidding reseeding: seed the RNG, call it 30 times to warm it up properly, then override the math.randomseed[wiki.facepunch.com] function. Every time this function is then called the caller will be logged, so you can discover who is reseeding your RNG.

This addon may break certain addons that depend on a certain state of the RNG, for example the TTT awards screen. Please use with caution.

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The picture of the dice used in the icon are from Wikipedia User PierreSelim and is used under CC BY 3.0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diceware#/media/File:Dice_-_1-2-4-5-6.jpg

This addon is licensed under the Unlicense