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How to prove if MF works
Step 1: Learn staticstics
Step 2: Perform a controlled experement at each respective level of MF 0%,100%, 200%… over the course of X number of days to accumulate an accurate data pool
Step 3: Use learned statistics
Step 4: Conclude whether MF actually works based on your mathematical findings
How to not prove if MF works
Compare how much rare crap you found to how much rare crap your friend found after a few hours.
Should also include a way to limit bias due to DR, like separating the tests with a day of doing something totally different elsewhere. And wouldn’t it be better to also record the number of kills?
Performing a “controlled experiment,” as I had previously stated, would eliminate bias. Each data pool would have to be gathered form the same type and number of mob over the same amount of time for X number of days. If instructions are still unclear, repeat Step 1 of How to prove MF works.
Farming sharks in the water south of the crab toss arena is a good way of making money from armored scales and allows you to kill a lot of mobs in a short amount of time increasing your chances at crate drops. I farmed for 20+ min last night and made 2g and got 4 crate drops. unfortunately you can’t get karka shells this way but don’t knock it till you try it, its a good way to make extra $ if you get bored of farming for shells.
Hello,
So recently I’ve seen a lot of post about people saying they weren’t able to complete the living story and how it was unfair. My word to you is deal with it. I’m sorry, but I just don’t see how people can complain about this. The core concept of the LS is to demonstrate a living world. It has its problems, true, but the things last for 2 weeks or high. The flame and frost one (if you count all the chapters) lasted for about 3 months. The recent chapter we’re in right now last 2 weeks (we have about a week left from today). I have been able to complete what each chapter had to offer in 2-3 hours. If you can’t spend at least 2-3 hours in Gw2 on the living story in a month or 2 weeks, you don’t seem to really care about the game. Anet is at least trying to reward dedicated players to the game and those who haven’t quit yet, and I like that. I appreciate what they are doing. I see no reason for them to allow players to redo this stuff and make it up when the whole premises about the living story is thakitten is supposed to represent the world is alive and evolving. That would go against the whole concept.
If you don’t want to be left behind in the living story, watch the game! Even if you quit, dont just ignore for the next 3 months and comeback and realize you made a mistake. Look at the release notes. It is not like you are paying a sub fee. Hop in for a couple of hours in one day and just complete it all.
While I completely agree that those who snoozed through the living story should lose out on the benefits it brought; I do think it would be really cool for ANet to re release some of the major encounters, ie. molten bosses and lost shores boss, as new fractal events so they can be experienced by those that missed them. I personally have not experienced all of the events, I completely missed lost shores and super adventure box, my own darn fault, but I was also able to complete all of the flame and frost content in about 1.5 to 2 hours, and the secret of southsun takes about the same amount of time. My advice to those who complain about missing this stuff, suck it up, pick a day when you have some time, sit down and do as much of the content as you can, if you miss some then tough “you cant always get what you want.”
How to prove if MF works
Step 1: Learn staticstics
Step 2: Perform a controlled experement at each respective level of MF 0%,100%, 200%… over the course of X number of days to accumulate an accurate data pool
Step 3: Use learned statistics
Step 4: Conclude whether MF actually works based on your mathematical findings
How to not prove if MF works
Compare how much rare crap you found to how much rare crap your friend found after a few hours.
Why do I feel like I am the only person who plays this game because I think it is fun, as opposed to because I wanna get rare crap? Just enjoy the game, if you get the drop, lucky you, if you dont just try to get the next one that comes out but have FUN doing it, dont forget that its just a GAME.
Thanks for adding to the problem. It’s these reasons why Anet will never get rid of stupid things like RNG chests. Because people keep buying them up.
Go ahead and buy more. Don’t expect anything though. Don’t you love when they lock new content behind RNG (or lottery if you want to call it that)?
Excuse you, but you’re wrong. They add this new content to convince people to purchase it to help pay for the FREE CONTENT. The content that was added to the game in the way of new Dynamic Events, story lines, extended locations, free back-slot items, new mini-games, new WvW items, and more. All these things are free and paid for by the Gem Store items; because without that Gem Store we would not have monthly content updates.
As another to look at it, as an adult, understand that you’re still getting far more for a $1 spent in the Gem store on chests than you are getting in putting that $1 in a slot machine for a single roll with the outcome of 0.
P.S. I know I’m going to get slapped with “but why don’t they just sell the weapons directly on the gem store for a set price? I’d buy them that way.”. So, I’ll explain it as this: Part of being in an MMORPG is becoming a unique individual by way of look, style, and play. If everyone was able to obtain these weapons equally, nobody would look unique and they’d have no rarity to them. (i.e. see how everyone in L.A. is right now either wearing a flower or tentacles on their backs).
It’s an opinion. My opinion. It can’t be wrong. We are all entitled to our own.
And they don’t need to add RNG to the gem store to fund this “new free content” that we are getting. There is many other ways to make money than have someone spin the wheel with their cash and end up wasting it on nothing.
Sorry but I have no sympathy for anyone that believes this is good business practice towards customers. Imagine going into a grocery store to pick up some milk, and after you pay for it, they give you a tomato. And then tell you that whenever you buy something from them, you get a chance that you will get what you want. You wouldn’t go there again. You’d go somewhere else to spend your money. Cause you want what you paid for, not a chance at it. Now that grocery store just lost a customer and future money from that customer cause of those tactics. If they would of just sold them the item without any tricks or shams, that customer would go back to that grocery store and buy stuff again.
And sorry, but I don’t care to be a special snowflake when it comes to buying items I want. I could care less if everyone owns it. I am buying something because I want it and I like it. I’m not going to not buy it cause everyone else has one. It has nothing to do with being a “unique” individual. You buy things cause you like them, not because you want everyone to be jealous of what you have and they don’t have.
Pixels are not a social status symbol. You wear what you want cause you like it. Not because of what everyone else will think.
The problem with your logic is that when somone goes into a store to buy milk, they are expecting to get milk because the product package states that it contains milk. When somone is buying a RNG chest they are paying for the “chance” to get a unique item, expecting anything else just proves that they did not read the description of the item they were buying. If I went to the store to buy milk and the bottle stated “has a chance to contain milk” it would be up to me to make the informed decision to buy it, if it did not contain the milk I hoped for then tough, no ones fault but my own.
What cracks me up is the posts that give the impression that the devs just read a complaint on the forums and then nerfed the skill. Do they really think that the devs didn’t test the build to see if it was really op? Come on, use a little bit of logic.