Story time:Today I wanted to get good mods, like any player. So I spent 2 cantina refreshes and used my regular cantina energy so that I had around 300 to spend on mods. Yay!!After spending it all, guess how many mods I got that were useful...0, as expected. HOWEVER, guess how many mods I got at all...0. ZERO mods from 300 energy spent. I'd like to call this bad RNG but something tells me this can't possibly be the case. There's no way in gosh darn heck that someone can spend 300 energy and get zero mods out of it. I knew the drop rates were bad but this is just a whole new level of hilarity. I just laughed when I saw it. I even simmed in groups of 3 to achieve some perceived optimal drop rate, but still, zero mods. Alright, story time is over.

Oops almost forgot the moral of this story: Just assume that in this game we can't have nice things.

"EscapeArtist51;584496" wrote:Multi sim drop rates period have been poo to me. I did 15 hard nodes, simmed all of em, got 1 shard, no pieces of purple gear. Every time I do large amounts of sims I get poo in return. I don't even use it anymore because the rate just seems much less than normal. It's not confirmation bias, it's literally my outcome being much much less.Sounds about right. From now on I'm only doing single sims because this is just a joke.Also I'll be refreshing again at reset to see if my luck continues...

Even without multi simming it is very common to spend a full cantina energy refresh without getting a single mod. Spending 2 refreshes without a mod is a little bit on the unlucky side but doesnt seem to be too special considering the overall low drop rates.

Doubt single or multi sim would make a difference. But every day I do 2 refresh, thats about 20 mod challenges and get average 3x MK5 mods. Lately all useless. Yesterday I went to one refresh a day. Suggest you do the same...

The multi- sim certainly seems to have effected drop rates. I've had a different experience, mod & shard drop rates have been excellent, but I very rarely get a single purple gear piece drop from light or dark battles. It has become a real problem and is concerning. Grinding 50 stun cuffs at a top rate of 1 per day using all free & both 50 crystal refreshes daily isn't sustainable. It's been like it since the mod update for me.

Horrendous Mod Drop Rates: Working as Intended

35 Replies

benacrow
9 years ago
Oops almost forgot the moral of this story: Just assume that in this game we can't have nice things.
benacrow
9 years ago
"EscapeArtist51;584496" wrote:
Multi sim drop rates period have been poo to me. I did 15 hard nodes, simmed all of em, got 1 shard, no pieces of purple gear. Every time I do large amounts of sims I get poo in return. I don't even use it anymore because the rate just seems much less than normal. It's not confirmation bias, it's literally my outcome being much much less.

Sounds about right. From now on I'm only doing single sims because this is just a joke.

Also I'll be refreshing again at reset to see if my luck continues...
MarmotaM0nax
9 years ago
Even without multi simming it is very common to spend a full cantina energy refresh without getting a single mod. Spending 2 refreshes without a mod is a little bit on the unlucky side but doesnt seem to be too special considering the overall low drop rates.
Nightlores
9 years ago
Doubt single or multi sim would make a difference. But every day I do 2 refresh, thats about 20 mod challenges and get average 3x MK5 mods. Lately all useless. Yesterday I went to one refresh a day. Suggest you do the same...
forgoodnesssake
9 years ago
The multi- sim certainly seems to have effected drop rates. I've had a different experience, mod & shard drop rates have been excellent, but I very rarely get a single purple gear piece drop from light or dark battles. It has become a real problem and is concerning. Grinding 50 stun cuffs at a top rate of 1 per day using all free & both 50 crystal refreshes daily isn't sustainable. It's been like it since the mod update for me.
cousins217
9 years ago
I'm not doing mods at the moment as I got lots of health ones in Precraft 2.0. But I have been multi-simming shards - my wondering is if it's because when we go manual there is a time delay, this generates a new seed each time. With multi-sim they're potentially generated off of the same seed because there is no gap for the seed to go up (it's based off milliseconds I would think) - they could potentially be salting the seed or doing an artificial delay so only one RNG per seed, not sure.

But, especially if multi-simming they should be able to ensure you get a minimum of something, say 1 shard per 10 sims or 1 mod per 10 sims. Even if single simming they could store server side the amount of sims since last mod/shard and if you cross it you get a 100% chance next sim.
Jim17490
9 years ago
@benacrow see what I just posted in discord. Your eyes are not deceiving you when you see the pic. It's atrocious at best.
Gezeshik
9 years ago
Multi sims haven't affected anything. Drop rates are bad, that's all
Eviljacket
New Spectator
9 years ago
Max I multisim any node now is 5, just don't trust it after experienceing similar results
Goju_Ukot
9 years ago
You experienced really bad RNG in your case but yes, the overall drop rates for mods are pretty bad, especially considering that you actually have to find a particular slot with a particular stat if you actually want to remain competitive. That's pretty much why I've only been farming (done now) the battles and filling in the holes using the shop. The Challenges for mods is an absolutely terrible use of your energy unless you're done farming regular cantina and/or like spending thousands of dollars on this game.