Frank N. Stein Another random(?) thing I noticed: back when I posted that message, I started one of the assignments - Barbarous Bargains, I think (the one where you trade for gold/supplies with the Amazons) -, and stopped playing; today when I resumed, when the assignment completed I actually got a Failure with proper success values shown for each result. Bummer that I did not remember what the "predicted" results were before I started the assignment, all I remember is that the option I went with was "Gold for Supplies" and I sent two slavers with a slave, i.e., not myself in either slot.
Do you, maybe, have an idea what that was about? Does that assignment have a different system altogether or something, like how the cheerleading or the monthly arena assignments work?
My curiosity makes my brain run wild with ideas like "next time I get I should use a Distinction, see whether I can get a guaranteed crit that way; then maybe use LD options; then...think of something else". Bottom line: amongst all the "bugged" crits I somehow managed to NOT get a crit so now I am obsessed with finding out how to make it crit AND not-crit again. "Dunno what I did, but it broke - challenge accepted to break it again".
I need to do something more productive with my time.
UPD: So, for Barbarous Bargains, the Gold/Supplies for
Other Means keeps the Always Crit bug(?), while the two Gold for Supplies (or vice versa) options somehow bypass it and roll normally.