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Calypso_FtW

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repetetive drops much o_O?

i just recently had started to notice this, has happened ALOT but never took any screens until now, pretty weird eh? too bad this only happens with crapp stuff -.-

04/03/08 07:21

stanzhao1

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RE: repetetive drops much o_O?

haha, thats awsome XD

could always salvage, do they make anyhting decent?

04/03/08 07:24

Forumite

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RE: repetetive drops much o_O?

wow, too bad it's not rare weapons and such, every person in the team would get rich to some extend thanks to that.

I think its just coincidence, but it could be something an update managed to do.

04/03/08 07:24

Blazings

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RE: repetetive drops much o_O?

Lol pretty funny indeed.
What if zaishen chests start to do that O.o

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04/03/08 07:40

lani

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RE: repetetive drops much o_O?

A game developer once told me you can recognize good Randomizer by the statistical streaks that make them feel non-random at all.

It doesn't feel random because you only see a very thin slice of the pie. I.e. If there's 10.000 active concurrent players, you see about one tenthousandth of all drops. That's not enough for a representative sample.
Given GW's Playerbase and ubiquitous farming, you'd need about 10.000 people supplying their accurate drop data for about a month to get any real sense of the drop-tables used. :-)

Of course, if someone copy-pasted a certain item into the drop-tables a bit too liberal, that'd be hard to notice. But ArenaNet has the whole pie to look at, so they'd notice pretty soon :-)

04/03/08 08:00

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RE: repetetive drops much o_O?

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A game developer once told me you can recognize good Randomizer by the statistical streaks that make them feel non-random at all.

Heh, that's good.

04/03/08 08:05

TheBeano

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RE: repetetive drops much o_O?

I forget which Dungeon in GWEN I was doing, but I managed to snag somewhere in the neighbourhood of 15 Lesser Guardian Spears in one go. After a while it became a bit of a sport.

Something tells me it was Cathedral of Flames.

Anyway, yes I've see that before... Perhaps what lani says is true... :)