Drop rates, loss runs and transparency
None of what follows is new, but I hope it encourages EA to have a think about how they handle artificially stochastic functions in the game, and gives some of you a bit more info about how to gain d...
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This thread is great. Keep up the good work.
It's like when I was getting pretty angry about the lack of slave 1 shards. Until I realized that with a rotation chance of 17%, there is actually a 2% chance of going without shards for 2 weeks. So it wasn't that strange to have a long dry spell like that. Still made me upset ;) Just as my 9 sims I just did with 0 stun gun salvage is frustrating.
Btw, no real reason to assume the 17% rotation rate, except it seemed that tie fighter appeared about twice as often as anything else, so splitting the chance of scimitar/slave 1 down the middle gives 17%.
It's like when I was getting pretty angry about the lack of slave 1 shards. Until I realized that with a rotation chance of 17%, there is actually a 2% chance of going without shards for 2 weeks. So it wasn't that strange to have a long dry spell like that. Still made me upset ;) Just as my 9 sims I just did with 0 stun gun salvage is frustrating.
Btw, no real reason to assume the 17% rotation rate, except it seemed that tie fighter appeared about twice as often as anything else, so splitting the chance of scimitar/slave 1 down the middle gives 17%.
