9th June 2007, 6:55 PM
Yep, that's why they existed. Actually there is a second reason. It is more time consuming to place individual enemy encounters all over various maps than to merely weight the selection of when they appear in the random battles.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)