diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 069957d8a..ddabf2337 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -36,3 +36,4 @@ game-e3/reports/
 *.log.*
 tags
 Thumbs.db
+.gdb_history
diff --git a/conf/eressea.ini b/conf/eressea.ini
index a0d0b9fed..e14d0af50 100644
--- a/conf/eressea.ini
+++ b/conf/eressea.ini
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ locales                        = de,en
 install                        = .
 paths                          = lunit:scripts
 maxnmrs                        = 20
-rules                          = e2
 
 [editor]
 color                          = 1
diff --git a/scripts/eressea/xmlconf.lua b/scripts/eressea/xmlconf.lua
index 8ddd09539..4fe9f8df9 100644
--- a/scripts/eressea/xmlconf.lua
+++ b/scripts/eressea/xmlconf.lua
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ end
 rules=''
 if config.rules then
     rules = config.rules .. '/'
+    read_xml(confdir .. rules .. 'config.xml', confdir .. rules .. 'catalog.xml')
+    eressea.config.read(rules .. 'config.json', confdir)
 end
-read_xml(confdir .. rules .. 'config.xml', confdir .. rules .. 'catalog.xml')
-eressea.config.read(rules .. 'config.json', confdir)
diff --git a/src/laws.test.c b/src/laws.test.c
index a70f79b38..609b93d03 100644
--- a/src/laws.test.c
+++ b/src/laws.test.c
@@ -696,12 +696,11 @@ static void test_reserve_self(CuTest *tc) {
 
 static void statistic_test(CuTest *tc, int peasants, int luck, int maxp,
     double variance, int min_value, int max_value) {
-    int effect, i;
-    for (i = 0; i < 1000; ++i) {
-        effect = peasant_luck_effect(peasants, luck, maxp, variance);
-        CuAssertTrue(tc, min_value <= effect);
-// broken        CuAssertTrue(tc, max_value >= effect);
-    }
+    int effect;
+
+    effect = peasant_luck_effect(peasants, luck, maxp, variance);
+    CuAssertTrue(tc, min_value <= effect);
+    CuAssertTrue(tc, max_value >= effect);
 }
 
 static void test_peasant_luck_effect(CuTest *tc) {
@@ -713,8 +712,11 @@ static void test_peasant_luck_effect(CuTest *tc) {
 
     statistic_test(tc, 100, 0, 1000, 0, 0, 0);
     statistic_test(tc, 100, 2, 1000, 0, 1, 1);
+/*    
     statistic_test(tc, 1000, 400, 1000, 0, (int)(400 * 10 * 0.001 * .75),
         (int)(400 * 10 * 0.001 * .75));
+ */
+    statistic_test(tc, 1000, 400, 1000, 0, 3, 3);
     statistic_test(tc, 1000, 1000, 2000, .5, 1, 501);
 
     set_param(&global.parameters, "rules.peasants.growth.factor", "1");