Double Drop Woes
December 9, 2017 1:48PM
edited December 2017
I find it really annoying how double drops are put out to prep for an up coming event and it is an absolute fail. I ran 40 Sims using a couple thousand crystals + and I received 2 character shards from the Vet Chewbacca node. This is just ridiculous and unfair, double drops should increase the amount of shards earned but I was getting nothing. Before the double drop event I was averaging 2-3 shards for every 4 sim tickets used.
Has anyone else had this issue during the double drop event?
Has anyone else had this issue during the double drop event?
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Yesterday 1100 energy I got 42 shards
I don't see how u could only get 2.
You got very unlucky
in my case i can see that Solo drop rate 1.5-2 times lower than chewie, so i did my best to farm him to 7* during double drops.
Over the two days of double drops I spent 1900 crystals -- 6x100, 4x200, plus preloading 2x200 from the day before double drops. Plus 48-ish hours of energy and the two bonus energy boosts. So that's about 1770 energy total. At 16 energy per sim, that's 110 sims. Supposed shard drop rate is 33%, so you'd expect to get a shard drop 36 times in those sims, but since it's double drops you should end up with 72 shards.
Which is just about exactly how it turned out. It was a little frustrating... I had what felt like great drops to start and got Han up to 99/100, then switched to Chewie. Today I finished up Chewie and had enough for four sims left, and hadn't even done the second 200 buy, so I thought, hey I can just do a few sims and get that last Han shard... I spent the four sims I had, and then I was like, well, I had already budgeted this 200, right, so let's do it, and I simmed 7 more times, one at a time, and got nothing! But I was at 14 cantina energy, so I wait for it and sim again. Again, nothing. 12 in a row with no drops! But then a few hours later I had enough energy again so I simmed one more time and got it.
In other words, RNG sucks, but over time it probably balances out. Sounds like you had a bad run of it. Sorry man.
(FWIW, I usually sim cantina nodes 5-at-a-time, which is the totally unscientific method recommended by John from the Galactic War Report podcast. I think it "works" because since the drop rate is 33%, 5 at a time is _almost_ guaranteed to drop at least one, and so long as you get one you feel okay about the world. If you just sim three, you'll notice a lot more times you don't even get one shard. But if you do more than five, then getting one will feel like a letdown. So do five at a time, not because it actually increases drop rates, but because it will fool your brain into giving you good feelings instead of bad feelings--most of the time.)
OP you just had incredibly terrible bad luck if you used thousands of crystals and got just 1 drop.
If you were getting those kind of drops before you can't really complain.
From my experience though if I do a 20 sim and get really poor rng then I don't do another as it is likely that one will be poor too and comeback to it later. I did 60 sims once on something a a month or 2 ago and got 3 total shards, and since then I am convinced that the rng is not entirely independent for each sim. RNG seems to work more in clumps.
shouldn't people also be free to respond to that however they like though? As long as they aren't making personal attacks obviously. It's not like that actually prohibits anyone from complaining.
For the record, i also think everyone should feel free to complain. Still doesn't mean those complaints aren't open for criticism, wich i also think every should feel free to express.
(in a perfect world the complaints and the critisism would obviously both be a little more civil, but it's the interwebz)
Only sim 3 at a time before anyone says that kitten.
to the best of my knowledge this event was global and it's impossible to get 1 shard during double drops.
With 2100 crystals spent on refills plus natural energy... I got a total of 88. Vet han (50) and chew (38) shards on 119 sims split evenly between the two, simmed 2x at a time.
That means 44 of my 119 sims dropped a shard: 36.97%. Not bad for me.
Good luck, and don't give up hope.
I spent around 2500 energy in the 2 days of dbl drops this time.
Had some good streaks and some not so good.
Just kept plugging away.
Got about 75 shards in the 2 days for maybe 3000 Crystal. Way cheaper than shipments at 8 shards for 640 Crystal