jeff101 Lv 1
The way shown for run 1052e8 above is good for seeing if a crash is possible in your puzzle.
It won't always crash Foldit so quickly, but it does tend to crash Foldit by [60] iterations
if a crash is possible. Also, using different values for rand_seed or rand_so_far can give
different results.
Once you know a crash is possible, it helps to do runs like 1052g52 and 1052g53
to examine more closely what causes the crashes and find ways to make these crashes occur sooner.
Spot checks have shown similar runs with
(Min Segments)=(Max Segments)=[(Max segment #)-(Min segment #)+1]
to be independent of rand_seed and rand_so_far.
I think this should make such runs easier to replicate on different machines and operating systems.