POE drop rates explained

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stuncc wrote:

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respwnd wrote:

Best ways to get good drops.
2. have a character with a positive randomly generated drop number (this number is hidden in the code, but good packet sniffer can find it)

This is a thing.

But in the end nothing beats clear speed and amount of stuff killed + playing when no one else is playing.

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stuncc wrote:

...So for example, an exalt orb drop rate is 20 per hour (using per hour but it could be per minute)

So whoever is playing will get those 20 exalt orbs in the next hour.
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...Diablo 3 (was the rng on char creation ever a confirmed thing or just a shit rumor that people who don't understand statistics kept running with?)..

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Morkonan wrote:

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stuncc wrote:

...So for example, an exalt orb drop rate is 20 per hour (using per hour but it could be per minute)

So whoever is playing will get those 20 exalt orbs in the next hour.
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Bbbut... Which hour? What time zone? If I live in North America and they use their upside-down New Zealand clocks, do I have to play upside-down? Can I just turn my clock upside down?

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...Diablo 3 (was the rng on char creation ever a confirmed thing or just a shit rumor that people who don't understand statistics kept running with?)..

IIRC, there was "something to that" but, it wasn't "that."

However, there is an old story about an MMO where that was a very real thing. I don't remember which it was, but the story goes like this:

One of random multipliers the game would use was the internal ID of a player's character. That's easy, simple, randomly generated to begin with, and doesn't require a lot of overhead with the game cranking way at a bunch of calcs everytime a bunch of people zone into an area.

This one guy loved raiding with his friends. But, there was a problem: Everytime he was in a group with his friends, raiding a dungeon, everything in the dungeon made a beeline for him and beat the crap out of him... There was nothing they could do to stop it. They would try to fight a group of mobs and, every single time, the group of mobs would bum rush his character and pound the heck out of him until he was dead.

Every thing in every dungeon "hated him" and would prefer to curbstomp him above everyone else in the dungeon. Why?

Well, one of the things the designers did was muck around with threat generation and faction scores to determine who the mobs would attack when players were grouped. Except, there was a problem - Because of this guy's unique character ID, the algorithm that generated these threat scores would fault out and he would get... infinite threat. He was literally doomed from Level 0 to be hated by everything in that world, from lowly rats to the mightiest dragons, whenever this type of threat calculation came into play.

They eventually fixed it for him. It if had been me, I would have kept it like it was. :)

I don't remember the MMO. This was long ago. Meridian? Asheron's Call? Can't remember.

"Hey! Der's Fred!"
"Fred? FRED! I hate that guy!"
"Me hates him toos! WAAAAGH"
"WAAAAARGH"

<Fred has died.>