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Been some talk lately about the drop rate of level 10 stuff in Deep Space, so I figured a few numbers couldn't hurt to see whether there's any validity to it. When I remember to do so, I'm gonna post the level of everything I loot out there here, and I encourage anyone else who's interested to do the same. Would be useful to have some more info.

UPDATED TOTALS:

1: 0
2: 6
3: 47
4: 35
5: 40
6: 34
7: 27
8: 34
9: 75
10: 67

Total: 365

Anyway, I didn't count the number or type of things I killed, but my credit chip at the end of this last run was 125K. Here's what I looted:

Level: Number

1: 0
2: 1
3: 9
4: 6
5: 4
6: 2
7: 2
8: 1
9: 10
10: 4

Total: 39

This sample size is way too small to make anything of yet, but that's a lot of level 3 and 9 stuff, heh.

I encourage anyone who wants to add their numbers to this thread to do so. I'll try to keep up with the tally.

Message Edited by TomoRainer on 06-26-2005 01:36 PM

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EfreaK wrote:

I've noticed, I get alot of boosters in Deep Space.
1/3rd of the drops is boosters

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To cut this off right at the start. Do NOT post such "info" in this thread. It is a subjective observation and this thread is about getting hard numbers. Stick to Tomo's style, list of levels with amount of dropped component for each level. Preferably total kills. Even better would be a split between total kills of fighters and their drops and total kills of gunboats and their drops, since it has been established in the past gunboats in deep space drop 9 times out of 10 and color the results.

Message Edited by Washell on 06-24-2005 01:33 PM

soon as I log back on my imp pilot I'll pull out the bag of stuff looted and report back....its about 60 items today...and i didn't even spend that much time...will edit this message with info

Message Edited by Cphopp on 06-24-2005 05:30 AM

Yeah, gunboats may taint things a bit and if we were getting really hardcore we'd separate them from normal fighters, but I'd hope that with a large enough sample size things will sort of even out. You can kill a few fighters in the time it takes to drop a gunboat, so that sort of mitigates things in a loot-over-time sense.

111K credit chip this time.

1: 0
2: 0
3: 3
4: 3
5: 3
6: 2
7: 5
8: 1
9: 6
10: 5

Total: 28

I'll start combining everyone's numbers into the first post later today.

I spent an hour last night in DS and my credit chip at the end of it was 84k. This is what I got:

Level: Number

1: 0
2: 0
3: 4
4: 2
5: 4
6: 3
7: 0
8: 1
9: 5
10: 3

Total: 22

While we're at it is there any possibility of adding ANY kind of loot drop to corvettes? Whenever I go to DS on Gorath all I see are corvettes all over the place with all the guns taken out (and no escorts left of course). Maybe a chance at a loot drop (same quality as a gunboat drop?) would get these things cleaned up for new spawns?

Kk tonight's run is as follows:

1: 0

2: 0

3: 9

4: 9

5: 9

6: 7

7: 7

8: 9

9: 13

10: 19

288k credit chip

My contribution (morning of 06/26/05), roughly 12:30am to 2:30am):

79 pieces in a single uninterrupted run, 224,287 credits earned, a little under three hours elapsed:

L1 - 0
L2 - 1
L3 - 6
L4 - 6
L5 - 6
L6 - 11
L7 - 4
L8 - 13
L9 - 16
L10 - 16

Out of this:

11x Armor
17x Boosters
20x Caps
7x DI
7x Engine
2x Reactor
10x Shields
5x Weapons

And out of the 79 items...I only deemed TWO keepable - an L8 engine with 24k mass, and an L10 cap with 39k mass. It was a good looting night...but the loot wasn't all that good.

NOTE: Probably 80-90% of the kills were fighters, including one overt in a Bel-22 who I found trying to solo the ISD. I was kinda perturbed when he didn't come back for a shot at me.

Message Edited by KaylBreinhar on 06-26-2005 07:26 AM

Credit chip - 66k

1-0

2-1

3-3

4-0

5-0

6-3

7-0

8-1

9-6

10-3

It wasnt a bad lootiing spree but i only kept 1 leval 9 engine which was ok and sold the rest to the dealer

Message Edited by mascol on 06-26-2005 04:24 AM

Had half an hour to kill in DS, this is what I got:

Credit chip - 46k

1-0
2-0
3-2
4-2
5-3
6-1
7-2
8-0
9-3
10-1

Total: 14

Went back again:

Credit chip - 104k

1-0
2-1
3-3
4-1
5-6
6-3
7-2
8-3
9-8
10-5

Total: 32

Out of all that I got only 1 weapon

Message Edited by macnider123123 on 06-26-2005 01:43 PM