[jotwebe]

Linear simply means that extreme outcomes are just as likely as middle-of-the-road ones. As opposed to something like a bell curve where the average is also the most common.

So, for example, imagine you have a bunch of 40 militia with and indy commander patrolling away on your overtaxed cap, with a destealth strength of about 50. Say taxes are 150%, so 10 points of unrest. Now your 50 points of destealth mean that up to 50 points of unrest can be patrolled away - but possibly none at all, too. You're rolling a d50.

So on any given turn, there should be a 20% chance that your actual destealth value is below 10, and unrest ensues.

That's from the manual and the wiki. Makes me wonder if having two smaller patrolling groups instead of one big one gave two rolls and so more consistent results?

Edit: ninja'd