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9 years ago

Complaint of the day - new purple gear drop rate

I've been farming the MK 9 binoculars for a couple weeks now trying to get boba to G11. Im at 66 now.

I can safely say at this point the drop rate is significantly lower than it is for cuffs/guns. I haven't tracked anything, but trust me, it's WAY lower. Most days I will have a period of ten/twelve sims with nothing, and then get 1 or two from my next 6 or so sims. Overall, it's probly been about 15%, perhaps slightly lower.

Why? All the ways you already get to us, and the rate of farming cuffs and guns is already low enough, come on, and you feel the need to do that to us with the new gear.. It's so cheap, honestly. Im obviously not buying them in shipments because you nerfed the drop rate. All purple gear should be dropping at the same rate.

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  • I'm still waiting for these random pieces of green gear to drop in like 4 sims when leveling a new character. And even the lower level purples (ones you need 20 of) have terrible drop rates sometimes as well. It's extremely frustrating, but it's all about encouraging people to buy them
  • "Tigzie;836829" wrote:
    "Cardiff0;86177" wrote:
    I've been farming the MK 9 binoculars for a couple weeks now trying to get boba to G11. Im at 66 now.

    I can safely say at this point the drop rate is significantly lower than it is for cuffs/guns. I haven't tracked anything, but trust me, it's WAY lower. Most days I will have a period of ten/twelve sims with nothing, and then get 1 or two from my next 6 or so sims. Overall, it's probly been about 15%, perhaps slightly lower.

    Why? All the ways you already get to us, and the rate of farming cuffs and guns is already low enough, come on, and you feel the need to do that to us with the new gear.. It's so cheap, honestly. Im obviously not buying them in shipments because you nerfed the drop rate. All purple gear should be dropping at the same rate.


    For once my old adversary (lol) we wholeheartedly agree.

    I found shortly before Xmas after one of the updates the drop rate for all purp gear significantly lowered at this stage it's hard to believe in a massively long string of bad RNG.


    Lol tiggers. Come to the nerf wiggs side of the force.

    I'm pretty cheesed off with it.

    "ARCTrooperFives;836834" wrote:
    I'm still waiting for these random pieces of green gear to drop in like 4 sims when leveling a new character. And even the lower level purples (ones you need 20 of) have terrible drop rates sometimes as well. It's extremely frustrating, but it's all about encouraging people to buy them


    It's encouraging enough already... this just cheesed me off. He needs two, I probly would've bought the other if this wasn't so grindingly annoying

    The best comment I've seen all week was from idk who on that thread titled about chaze being nerfed, just saying -

    'The only thing they nerf is drop rates'
  • "Mojavelandbaron;836839" wrote:
    When you see a sustained trend, such as being lucky to squeak one or two pieces of gear, or one or two shards from 120 energy expenditure, it's not RNG. The drop rates have been nerfed. Now, there might be days when they buff the drop rate so people get "lucky" streaks, but it's pretty obvious to me that they are nerfed most of the time.


    Do you mean they nerded the drop rate for all purples or just for the new purples?

    I stopped with cuffs and started with mk9 binocs around Christmas like Tigzie said, and immediately started getting far fewer drops. I haven't done cuffs since, but it seemed to me there's just a difference in the old purples and new purples

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