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I have completely lost the faith in the randomness of the random generator of CoD a long time a go already.

Here a better algorithm to generate a random value.
You can try to implement this one and use it instead of the one of CoD.
If you have time and like to do it of course

Code:

static unsigned int m_z = 12434;
static unsigned int m_w = 33254;


// random generator -----------------------------------------------
unsigned int random (unsigned int iSize)
{
    static unsigned int iRandOld = 0;
    
    m_z = 36969 * (m_z & 65535) + (m_z >> 16);
    m_w = 18000 * (m_w & 65535) + (m_w >> 16);
    
    if (iRandOld == (((m_z << 16) + m_w) % iSize))
    {
        m_z = 36969 * (m_z & 65535) + (m_z >> 16);
        m_w = 18000 * (m_w & 65535) + (m_w >> 16);
    }
    
    iRandOld = ((m_z << 16) + m_w) % iSize;
    
    return (iRandOld);
}

examples:

Quote:number of random generator function calls checked: 2000000
number of unique values that can be created: 4

first 2 numbers match to start: 156345
first 3 numbers match to start: 48804
first 4 numbers match to start: 15167
first 5 numbers match to start:  4740

first 2 numbers are equal: 124969,   6.25%
first 3 numbers are equal:   7858,   0.39%
first and third are equal: 593289,  29.66%

  0 = 499519,  24.98%
  1 = 500641,  25.03%
  2 = 499703,  24.99%
  3 = 500137,  25.01%

Quote:number of random generator function calls checked: 2000000
number of unique values that can be created: 5

first 2 numbers match to start: 96245
first 3 numbers match to start: 23215
first 4 numbers match to start:  5652
first 5 numbers match to start:  1361

first 2 numbers are equal:  79299,   3.96%
first 3 numbers are equal:   3070,   0.15%
first and third are equal: 464242,  23.21%

  0 = 399637,  19.98%
  1 = 400140,  20.01%
  2 = 400008,  20.00%
  3 = 400391,  20.02%
  4 = 399824,  19.99%

Quote:number of random generator function calls checked: 4000000
number of unique values that can be created: 7

first 2 numbers match to start: 93256
first 3 numbers match to start: 15404
first 4 numbers match to start:  2533
first 5 numbers match to start:   414

first 2 numbers are equal:  81555,   2.04%
first 3 numbers are equal:   1741,   0.04%
first and third are equal: 641392,  16.03%

  0 = 571390,  14.28%
  1 = 571488,  14.29%
  2 = 571107,  14.28%
  3 = 572189,  14.30%
  4 = 571982,  14.30%
  5 = 570435,  14.26%
  6 = 571409,  14.29%

Quote:number of random generator function calls checked: 4000000
number of unique values that can be created: 21

first 2 numbers match to start:  9555
first 3 numbers match to start:   492
first 4 numbers match to start:    32
first 5 numbers match to start:     3

first 2 numbers are equal:   9047,   0.23%
first 3 numbers are equal:     17,   0.00%
first and third are equal: 198405,   4.96%

  0 = 190227,   4.76%
  1 = 190142,   4.75%
  2 = 190308,   4.76%
  3 = 191151,   4.78%
  4 = 190740,   4.77%
  5 = 189281,   4.73%
  6 = 190797,   4.77%
  7 = 190227,   4.76%
  8 = 190962,   4.77%
  9 = 190001,   4.75%
 10 = 190175,   4.75%
 11 = 190247,   4.76%
 12 = 190459,   4.76%
 13 = 190224,   4.76%
 14 = 191017,   4.78%
 15 = 190687,   4.77%
 16 = 190621,   4.77%
 17 = 190686,   4.77%
 18 = 191104,   4.78%
 19 = 190438,   4.76%
 20 = 190506,   4.76%