5/19 double drops

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  • StarSon
    7426 posts Member
    Jakdnels wrote: »
    It would be nice to have a time (and timezone) included with the date for when double drops start

    Local reset time.
  • kalidor
    2121 posts Member
    Guess I'll start spending crystals again. That was a bit of a letdown. Only prereq in this set that is a DS farm is Magnaguard, and it's also a 10e Cantina farm, so bit of a weird pick for double drops.
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  • Ultra
    11491 posts Moderator
    dalosto147 wrote: »
    DD 22 and 23 only Dark Side Battles.
    This is disappointing, as expected.

    Its free double drops
  • It's not weird, cg is notoriously stingy with, well, everything but certainly double drops
  • Ultra wrote: »
    dalosto147 wrote: »
    DD 22 and 23 only Dark Side Battles.
    This is disappointing, as expected.

    Its free double drops

    2x0 = 0


    Double drops are broken but always take what the Casino... I mean the game gives away..
  • Gouj4
    416 posts Member
    It's not weird, cg is notoriously stingy with, well, everything but certainly double drops

    Cg is stingy by giving us double drops ??
  • kalidor
    2121 posts Member
    edited May 2021
    It's not weird, cg is notoriously stingy with, well, everything but certainly double drops

    It's weird in the sense that of all the announced prereqs for JMK, only Magnaguard is a DS farm (and it's also a cantina farm). So I guess Yay? Double drops... but I don't see how it ties into JMK at all - unless Bo Katan is being added as a DS farm in the next couple of days.
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  • Nikoms565
    14242 posts Member
    edited May 2021
    Gouj4 wrote: »
    It's not weird, cg is notoriously stingy with, well, everything but certainly double drops

    Cg is stingy by giving us double drops ??

    FREE DOUBLE DROPS?? THOSE $%&€#@!!!!
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  • Ultra
    11491 posts Moderator
    Nikoms565 wrote: »
    Gouj4 wrote: »
    It's not weird, cg is notoriously stingy with, well, everything but certainly double drops

    Cg is stingy by giving us double drops ??

    FREE DOUBLE DROPS?? THOSE $%&€#@!!!!

    If Bo-Katan goes to a DS Node, this will be even more ironic
  • Gouj4
    416 posts Member
    Nikoms565 wrote: »
    Gouj4 wrote: »
    It's not weird, cg is notoriously stingy with, well, everything but certainly double drops

    Cg is stingy by giving us double drops ??

    FREE DOUBLE DROPS?? THOSE $%&€#@!!!!

    Get the pitchforks!
  • TVF
    36573 posts Member
    SotaDraken wrote: »
    Ultra wrote: »
    dalosto147 wrote: »
    DD 22 and 23 only Dark Side Battles.
    This is disappointing, as expected.

    Its free double drops

    2x0 = 0


    Double drops are broken but always take what the Casino... I mean the game gives away..

    How are they broken exactly?
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  • Gouj4
    416 posts Member
    Ultra wrote: »
    Nikoms565 wrote: »
    Gouj4 wrote: »
    It's not weird, cg is notoriously stingy with, well, everything but certainly double drops

    Cg is stingy by giving us double drops ??

    FREE DOUBLE DROPS?? THOSE $%&€#@!!!!

    If Bo-Katan goes to a DS Node, this will be even more ironic

    She is as well
  • Ultra wrote: »

    FREE DOUBLE DROPS?? THOSE $%&€#@!!!!

    If Bo-Katan goes to a DS Node, this will be even more ironic[/quote]

    Ha! Cue irony.
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  • Looooki
    1045 posts Member
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    Still no DD. Happily waiting
  • Gouj4
    416 posts Member
    Looooki wrote: »
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    Still no DD. Happily waiting

    Yeah they’re on the 22nd and 23rd
  • TVF wrote: »
    SotaDraken wrote: »
    Ultra wrote: »
    dalosto147 wrote: »
    DD 22 and 23 only Dark Side Battles.
    This is disappointing, as expected.

    Its free double drops

    2x0 = 0


    Double drops are broken but always take what the Casino... I mean the game gives away..

    How are they broken exactly?

    I would have a different "random" algorithm..


    When I hit shuffle on a playlist of music, it "randomly" shuffles the order.. But I don't want to hear the same band twice in a row, or eat the same flavor of Skittles twice in a row, I want "random" but not "true" random. True random is where you could possibly get the same artist twice or even 3 times in a row, or get the same flavor of Skittles, or as it relates to the game, gear/shards drop rate of 0%...

    I get it. I know the shard rate is a
    around 30-33%.

    Double drops are a tool of mobile games to encourage spending by dangling the potential of Double the reward of the same cost of energy. But it's an old tool that backfires any goodwill when you get a 0/15. It's frustrating to go 0/15 attempts on Double Drops..


    But oh well, for me and my opinion, it's a broken algorithm that is more about getting players to buy/spend crystals than a temporary "special offer" that could help players advance..

  • Kyno
    32087 posts Moderator
    SotaDraken wrote: »
    TVF wrote: »
    SotaDraken wrote: »
    Ultra wrote: »
    dalosto147 wrote: »
    DD 22 and 23 only Dark Side Battles.
    This is disappointing, as expected.

    Its free double drops

    2x0 = 0


    Double drops are broken but always take what the Casino... I mean the game gives away..

    How are they broken exactly?

    I would have a different "random" algorithm..


    When I hit shuffle on a playlist of music, it "randomly" shuffles the order.. But I don't want to hear the same band twice in a row, or eat the same flavor of Skittles twice in a row, I want "random" but not "true" random. True random is where you could possibly get the same artist twice or even 3 times in a row, or get the same flavor of Skittles, or as it relates to the game, gear/shards drop rate of 0%...

    I get it. I know the shard rate is a
    around 30-33%.

    Double drops are a tool of mobile games to encourage spending by dangling the potential of Double the reward of the same cost of energy. But it's an old tool that backfires any goodwill when you get a 0/15. It's frustrating to go 0/15 attempts on Double Drops..


    But oh well, for me and my opinion, it's a broken algorithm that is more about getting players to buy/spend crystals than a temporary "special offer" that could help players advance..

    You may have a little misunderstanding here, true random has nothing to do with getting the same artist in that scenario. You are referencing probability with and without replacement.

    Double drops means that for free on any give day offered you are getting double what you would have gotten. You dont have to like it, double drops dont care.
  • Kyno wrote: »
    SotaDraken wrote: »
    TVF wrote: »
    SotaDraken wrote: »
    Ultra wrote: »
    dalosto147 wrote: »
    DD 22 and 23 only Dark Side Battles.
    This is disappointing, as expected.

    Its free double drops

    2x0 = 0


    Double drops are broken but always take what the Casino... I mean the game gives away..

    How are they broken exactly?

    I would have a different "random" algorithm..


    When I hit shuffle on a playlist of music, it "randomly" shuffles the order.. But I don't want to hear the same band twice in a row, or eat the same flavor of Skittles twice in a row, I want "random" but not "true" random. True random is where you could possibly get the same artist twice or even 3 times in a row, or get the same flavor of Skittles, or as it relates to the game, gear/shards drop rate of 0%...

    I get it. I know the shard rate is a
    around 30-33%.

    Double drops are a tool of mobile games to encourage spending by dangling the potential of Double the reward of the same cost of energy. But it's an old tool that backfires any goodwill when you get a 0/15. It's frustrating to go 0/15 attempts on Double Drops..


    But oh well, for me and my opinion, it's a broken algorithm that is more about getting players to buy/spend crystals than a temporary "special offer" that could help players advance..

    You may have a little misunderstanding here, true random has nothing to do with getting the same artist in that scenario. You are referencing probability with and without replacement.

    Double drops means that for free on any give day offered you are getting double what you would have gotten. You dont have to like it, double drops dont care.

    I know what it is. I know what CG's Double Drops entail. @TVF asked me why I think it is broken. So I gave my reason why I think it is broken.

    Casnios don't care that the players know the odds are stacked against them. I, as a player, know the odds.. Same for CG..

    We, as players, know what Double Drops mean..

    2x0=0
  • TVF
    36573 posts Member
    No, that's not at all what it means. And you're using "broken" incorrectly anyway. "Broken" does not mean "something I don't like."

    The odds aren't stacked against you. They're the same percentage chance for everyone, and if you hit that good side of the percentage, you get two of the thing instead of one.

    Nothing is broken. If you only get one when you are supposed to get two, then I'll listen.
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  • Gouj4 wrote: »
    It's not weird, cg is notoriously stingy with, well, everything but certainly double drops

    Cg is stingy by giving us double drops ??

    No but by very rarely giving us double drops with an absurdly poor gear economy along with the fact that they aren't full double drops, just dark side battles, means yes it comes off stingy
  • Gouj4
    416 posts Member
    Gouj4 wrote: »
    It's not weird, cg is notoriously stingy with, well, everything but certainly double drops

    Cg is stingy by giving us double drops ??

    No but by very rarely giving us double drops with an absurdly poor gear economy along with the fact that they aren't full double drops, just dark side battles, means yes it comes off stingy

    So your answer is No, but Yes. Got it
  • Gouj4 wrote: »
    Gouj4 wrote: »
    It's not weird, cg is notoriously stingy with, well, everything but certainly double drops

    Cg is stingy by giving us double drops ??

    No but by very rarely giving us double drops with an absurdly poor gear economy along with the fact that they aren't full double drops, just dark side battles, means yes it comes off stingy

    So your answer is No, but Yes. Got it

    No my answer is no to what you said, as to the reasoning of cg being stingy. Rather these are the reasons they are stingy
  • Kyno
    32087 posts Moderator
    SotaDraken wrote: »
    Kyno wrote: »
    SotaDraken wrote: »
    TVF wrote: »
    SotaDraken wrote: »
    Ultra wrote: »
    dalosto147 wrote: »
    DD 22 and 23 only Dark Side Battles.
    This is disappointing, as expected.

    Its free double drops

    2x0 = 0


    Double drops are broken but always take what the Casino... I mean the game gives away..

    How are they broken exactly?

    I would have a different "random" algorithm..


    When I hit shuffle on a playlist of music, it "randomly" shuffles the order.. But I don't want to hear the same band twice in a row, or eat the same flavor of Skittles twice in a row, I want "random" but not "true" random. True random is where you could possibly get the same artist twice or even 3 times in a row, or get the same flavor of Skittles, or as it relates to the game, gear/shards drop rate of 0%...

    I get it. I know the shard rate is a
    around 30-33%.

    Double drops are a tool of mobile games to encourage spending by dangling the potential of Double the reward of the same cost of energy. But it's an old tool that backfires any goodwill when you get a 0/15. It's frustrating to go 0/15 attempts on Double Drops..


    But oh well, for me and my opinion, it's a broken algorithm that is more about getting players to buy/spend crystals than a temporary "special offer" that could help players advance..

    You may have a little misunderstanding here, true random has nothing to do with getting the same artist in that scenario. You are referencing probability with and without replacement.

    Double drops means that for free on any give day offered you are getting double what you would have gotten. You dont have to like it, double drops dont care.

    I know what it is. I know what CG's Double Drops entail. TVF asked me why I think it is broken. So I gave my reason why I think it is broken.

    Casnios don't care that the players know the odds are stacked against them. I, as a player, know the odds.. Same for CG..

    We, as players, know what Double Drops mean..

    2x0=0

    And I was just questioning your knowledge of that because what you said is wrong.

    As a player who seems to be writing off saving up or spending on energy, you dont seem to know what double drops mean.
  • Ryconnan
    168 posts Member
    Surely to be truly accurate

    2 x 0 = 0
    2 x 1 = 2
    2 x 2 = 4

    At least that’s how it works for me. Sometimes I get more one than the other but over the different double drop events I have had some of all the chances.

    Are some of you saying you always get 0 on double drops and never get anything?

    I find that hard to believe!
  • TVF
    36573 posts Member
    Maybe they've only ever done a single sim during double drops.
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  • Its the fact that during a promotion, these "Double Drops, " the fact that there is a possibility of "0" is just disingenuous, TO ME.

    THAT'S MY OPINION..

    I don't care what the game is. I don't care that the Devs think that it's an okay part of the game..

    I don't think is..


    That's the whole point.. It's just one more person saying these "Double Drops" are not as "fun" or "exciting" as the Devs think they are..


    /end scene
  • Bartek
    116 posts Member
    Well they didn't keep their word about announcement at 19th. But info is already in the game. Double drops on May 22nd and 23nd.
  • Bartek wrote: »
    Well they didn't keep their word about announcement at 19th. But info is already in the game. Double drops on May 22nd and 23nd.

    What are you talking about?

    https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/245129/jedi-master-kenobi-requirements-group-2#latest

    This was posted on the 19th. It's perfectly reasonable for the 19th of May to mean the 19th of May where they live, not where you live.
  • Bartek
    116 posts Member
    Bartek wrote: »
    Well they didn't keep their word about announcement at 19th. But info is already in the game. Double drops on May 22nd and 23nd.

    What are you talking about?

    https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/245129/jedi-master-kenobi-requirements-group-2#latest

    This was posted on the 19th. It's perfectly reasonable for the 19th of May to mean the 19th of May where they live, not where you live.
    Wow i missed that one. You are right obviously. Sorry CG o:)
  • Kyno
    32087 posts Moderator
    SotaDraken wrote: »
    Its the fact that during a promotion, these "Double Drops, " the fact that there is a possibility of "0" is just disingenuous, TO ME.

    THAT'S MY OPINION..

    I don't care what the game is. I don't care that the Devs think that it's an okay part of the game..

    I don't think is..


    That's the whole point.. It's just one more person saying these "Double Drops" are not as "fun" or "exciting" as the Devs think they are..


    /end scene

    I'm sorry, but can you explain the disingenuous part?

    It runs on the normal drop rate of the item you are farming, but by doubling what you would have gotten at a drop, it becomes disingenuous ??

    Not liking them, or not thinking they are fun and they do not engage you, I get all of that, but I'm lost how disingenuous comes into play.
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