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i know that the chance of receiving elemenst is the real rewards but in the last 24 merc quests i havnt received a single element. anyone els experiencing this kind of thing.
thanks |
| The chance of receiving an element is 20% flat. Guess you're having a streak of bad luck? |
yer realy bad luck so normally its about 1 in 5?
thanks =) |
| Sometimes I even got 5 times in a row .. :) |
| sometimes you can get double element reward |
| well, double elements only kicks in after a certin merc guild level |
| I just got abrasive =) |
| Some time ago i had bad luck - around 70 quests without elements at all. Now it more or less balance - 1 from 4-5 quests. |
Hi fistofgod,
Your MG is 173, so your total elementals got would roughly be 34. Check your transfer log and elementals left, it doesn't look too bad |
#1
0 out of 24 isn't that uncommon of bad luck.
I think my worst streak was over 30 wins. |
another bad thing in MG - the same quests to often. For example, last my 5 quests was defending farmers (24). Usually tasks is delivering, or defending caravan/creatures, less - armyes, rare - mosters and attacks mines. Why this is so?
armies - 7 tipes, delivering - 7 tipes, defending caravans - 7 tipes, defending creatures - 4 (magi, farmers, m. archers, g. bowmen). 25 tipes all.
monsters - 90 tipes, attacks mines - 90 tipes. 180 all.
I usually decline quests from first 25 - there are to big level of them now. And accept quests from 180 last. And my reputation rare grow from 0. Bad random?
Btw, Fes has the same reputation, while choose the same quests. |
#11
To answer your question I believe it's a combination of bad random and a flaw in the random sequence generator. I believe it tends to give out strings of the same value more often than it should. |
| And I haven't got element yet too till now .. however have done 10 wins .. :) |
| done 6 succesfl MQ and got a meteorite shard |
| sorry for double post but i got the sahrd onthe 2nd sucesful quest |
| Pantheon, i started only doing mer. quests from gaining lvl 12, till now i'm finished 244 quests. May be 1 was failed (forgot oabout it =)) and my reputation was not more than 3-4, almost all time - 0. I think its bad generator or its secret idea of administration... who knows? |
I may be wrong, but in my experience it seems there are two steps in the random generator.
First off, it choose a random quest type (army, monster, invader, ...). After that, you get a random quest of this type.
If it where only in one step, you would almost never get the army, invader, ... quest types. |
| You may be right about generator. But in this case armyes/delivering/defending are grow much faster then monsters and attacks. For what this? I'm gaining only lvl 1-6 in attacks and mosters and lvl 14-31 in armies, defending quests. Delivering and defending caravans are near 11-13 lvl. |
#11
It would seem reasonable to assume that each of those 205 quests has an equal chance of being offered. But I'm quite certain that's not the case. From what I can tell, I think the chance is spread out evenly among the 6 groups (armies, invaders, brigands, vanguards, monsters, raids), which is kind of absurd because the groups don't have the same number of quests.
And yes, there's definitely something wrong with the random generator. I have gotten several streaks of 20+ quests without elements. Not one. Several. And my bad luck is over a lot of quests. I started recording since gaining level 3 (300 quests), and from 301 to 600, I've gotten a total 47 elements (slightly better than 15%), instead of an average 60. And from 601 to 687, I've gotten a total of 20 elements, instead of a 35 average. I had a 15 element-less streak at level 4! How freaking unlucky is that? I'm seriously doubting the 20% number people have been quoting me. It's supposed to even out in the long run, but it's ... just ... not.
Are we sure that the Admin hasn't adjusted the number to 15% somewhere, without telling us? This is so ridiculous. |
Oh, and I sort of gave up on the idea of doing quests to get elements. Let the people who claim to be lucky do them. I'll just buy the elements from them. It's much easier, less frustrating, and probably cheaper that way.
Who keep getting 4 or 5 in a row? Put them up on the Market, won't you? |
