Bounty Hunter Archive
Thread: Loot change or something
FlashDog wrote:
please understand that i know for a fact that the loot has been nerfed hard. yes, once in a very long while someone will find something good. but the first day the patch went live, it was insane: MANY armor schems, MANY skill tapes, etc. now it is much rarer
I'm beginning to agree with this man. Unless i'm bugged too (hate those damn jars of foraged bug's).
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There's no need to hear from Devs: either they have lowered drop rate or it's bugged.
Compare your first 50 missions since publish 21 went live. How many schems/CA/etc did you get?
Now go out and run 50 missions. Let me know if the drop rate is still the same...
It isn't.
And elite marks are harder to find too.
I think youre right. When I hunt in the evening I get just smuggler junk. I was hunting around 2-3am last night and got Two BH armor schematics In a row. One of em even came with a +7 Gen. Range Accuracy, +7 Fire resist CA and a stack of 8 assault armor cores.
Anarchicgorilla wrote:
That complex?
Program = every day 50 good loots drop. Spread out randomily each day for each NPC type.
That pretty damn basic and easy to do, it is acutally easier than running a % from each boss program., that would require the program to keep track of everytime NPC's were attacked and what the gave. Then try to balace the % so the loot drops at such and such a %.
This is why I think it is the way, the proof if you will:
Everytime a new "loot of the week" comes out people fly to it. Then later everyone says it has been nerfed.
Why?LLets say 10 loot drops a day.When 50 people are trying for the good loot they have good chance (1 in 5)... when 5000 all try well they have bad chance (1 in 500).
I heard time and time again "are the loots dropping again". The are always dropping... it is just when less people loot the same dam thing it looks like more loot is droping. And when every one is looting it looks like noone is getting the loot.
I know I have no word from SOE, however, I would guess from these factors and what I seen... this is how it works.
ok right think of it this way. Anyoen thats been down to akuran caves n camped down thesr for Seas. knows that when the spawn is menntal u get loads of cas n aas, but consider this say u kill 100 akurans u may get 5 aas and maybe 1 is ok but it seem sfast cause u killing so many good thigns, but still the chance of getting a good ca down thers is about 1% its probably the samewith these marks
anythign easy aint worth it
My guess would be that the drop rate is based overall % to the economy. Something like50 good loot drops will be given out each day, spaced evenly through out the hour... like 2 good drops every hour for all the missions. (basic # for general point)
Meaning that the first days when it started and less BH's were hunting, you had a higher chance of getting the good loot because you were competing with 50 other BH on same server. So if there are 50 drops a day and 50 hunters you have a good chance to get atleast 1 good loot.
Now with about ever BH hunting (and it is the weekend) you will get less ofthegood loots because, they are being spreed out to all the new hunters. So if there are 50 drops a day with 300 BH's hunting that means you have less of a chance.