UFO Spawn rate

It seemed to be less than 1/4 to me also.

The files say 25% according to those sources, but the code does what it wants.

Either that or you, I, and some others that have posted on this, are really unlucky. :)

I see them only on two occasions

1) I have no ammo

2) when I am able to collect probes during my 90 actions, after that I will not see any UFO's if I leave and go back to my town. I will continue to see them while visiting all my neighbors, but I will have used up all my ammo long before I finish visiting.

very annoying. I have gone through my neighbor list twice one day and never saw a UFO once. This is clearly a gitch, because if you buy ammo, you're screwed because the dumb things won't show up!

Could a EA Support person reply to this thread please?

I have not seen a UFO in over a week (10 days now).

Today I spent over an hour clicking through all my friends towns one by one and waiting 3-5 minutes on each town.
I have seen them before, but now I don't anymore.

I have tried while I still had Actions to accomplish and when I haven't

Thank you,

Like all percents- it's 25% chance each time you enter not over the 100 friends... Not 25 of 100 you see a UFO- but 25% chance per friend... Not seeing one for a while is expected

My friends say that they run out of missiles a lot, but I am up to 45 now, as I have only ever seen less than 10 UFOs since the event started.
I check for UFOs perhaps 4-5 times per day. probably spent 1+ hours a day trying to spawn these guys, since the event started, and just can't get them. Up to 2 hours just tonight trying.

Can I trade the unused missiles in for something useful when the event ends?
Perhaps when I get to 100 missiles?

I once went through all 101 of my friends and only saw 1 UFO. Other times it seems there's one every other friend (would you like to spend 5 donuts to shoot this down?).

I have only seen them during my first visits to neighbours (when all three actions are still available to do). I am under the impression that is when they are most likely to spawn. I've only heard of one spawning on a second visit to a neighbours town once. I'll try to find the thread and post a link to it for you.

EDIT: Here it is: http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/10220526.page

Funny thing I have noticed. I have several neighbors who have not played in a long time, from the look of things, long before the Halloween update, and I find that the UFO's appear more commonly in those towns. Perhaps it has something to do with the other towns already having had the UFO's shot down? Not sure.

All hail the RNG!

99.99% spawn if have no ammo, and 00.01% spawn if have ammo, get it? its called a FREEMIUM game, AKA asorb as mutch $$$ from you as possable.