Double drops
November 24, 2019 8:40PM
edited November 2019
Why do you have double drops for the harder to find items like kyrotek when the drop rate ends up getting cut in half? So you got double drops but I'm still spending the SAME amount of energy and getting the same amount of items from energy spent!
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To provide proof would be to release game code, which is proprietary, or just to release something everyone would claim is faked anyway. You want to prove a contrary opinion, the ball for research is in your court, get on with it.
They never released any droprates either, we deducted them by data. And if any of the drop rate claims are true, they can also be deducted by data. I'm not saying drop rates aren't halved during 2x, but why halved, maybe it is 1/4ed. We'll never know without any data. Even a low amount of total samples a person can up with is a valuable contribution to a collective pool of data if we did it.
You are not the one that made the claim? Ok then, since there are no claims, we have no topic to talk about.
They don’t though. And what data could they possibly provide? If you don’t believe drops are doubled, then why would you believe their data is real?
Imagine working really hard all year and your boss pulls you into his office and says, "Fantastic year Smith!! Productivity is up 200%, complaints are down, you saved the whale and you invented bitcoin!
As your reward for everything you've done and to make you feel amazing, I'm giving you the slim opportunity to potentially earn a bonus!!
Aaaaaaaaannnnd..... nope. You got nothing!
You can go now. Close the door."
I get that chance is a fickle beast. But, that's what makes it such a bad idea to use it to try and make people feel good. Because everyone who lands on black instead of red feels like they've been punched in the groin.
So far I've been earning less shards than I did a week ago without double drops. I understand that this may be random chance, bad luck, chaos theory etc. and I'm so used to it by now I don't really mind, but if EA want to reward people then give them a reward, not a % chance that you get left feeling like you just got shafted.
I’ve been getting WAY better than double on my drops. There. That qualifies as “anything.”
It’s also precisely one more piece of data than you have provided to support your silly nonsensical claim.
I’m being 100% serious here. What could possibly be more clear than getting double of the listed items?
They could pinkie promise.
Better than double? Data plz....
"Feels"
Drop rates are a defined value acting on whatever rng engine as far as they are concerned. Only statistics would be if the engine is running properly which yields the result "working as intended".
Whether to publish those rates or not is a completely irrelevant decision to this and not something they also find out like your GAS example or spending distributions etc.
.10% chance for 7 shards(not actual what the stat is. Just an example for those ignorant people with their ignorant comments as if they know anything about this game or just programming in general.)
2) lots of people have gone to the trouble of recording drop rates and the collated evidence is clear: shard drop rate = 30-33%; purple gear (including Kyrotech) =20-22%
3) I’m not sure why you typed in mixed case, or called someone a dummy, but they are required by law in some countries to reveal the percentages for different outcomes on cash purchases, like they do for shards in data packs. That’s why they reveal them.
Yeah I both work for CG and don't know what I'm talking about.
There are published drop rates in the packs which are also bound by their rng engine, do you also think they are not the real numbers and cg is lying to us about them and real rates are different? If not, why not?
And you’re absolutely definitely not the only one who thinks this that has not tracked any drop rates whatsoever to verify whether or not there’s any truth in it.
It’s a global game. If they need to do something for one territory, it makes sense to do it for them all. The information would be easy to find by users in the regions where they weren’t required to provide the rates.