We cracked the map loot code - Tinfoil Hat

Haha classic read! I have found that completely restarting the game helps when your down and out on your map drop luck rate. It will bring the RNG map gods back on your side!

The BF Skinner wikipedia reference made me laugh hysterically.

RNG is more generous when my feet are off the ground. Something to do with energy flows and shakra, my RNG guru said.

Of course!

I may also be onto something that will directly link the directional layout of the map to better drop yields.

Not enough testing to decisively conclude but NNW seems to yield better results.

More on this soon.

when the first few mobs dont drop a blue goldring , the map will yield nothing of value.

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SkyCore wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._F._Skinner#Superstitious_pigeons
Some research you may find interesting.

Pretty interesting. I would add "praying" into that list, I would also add "cat fixing the closed door in hope it will open magically" :P

Back to PoE, I tend to say as a joke that low % maps always have more chance to drop a map while high % maps drop almost no maps because that's typically my experience with maps.

Evry time I legitimately think " man it's about time I get a unique , it's been awhile " I get one.
Now you say to yourself " why don't you just do that like every 5 minutes " well you can't .
You'd be showing the RNGjesus selfishness which he doesn't approve of.
So I really only do it when it's been like a day or 2.

Also the other day I was thinking " man I really need an exalt, been way to long since I got a good orb drop "
I had finished up a map and was doing a quick run around for anything I might've missed. Lo and behold there was an exalt laying there in the ground.

Now all this may be coincidence . It's could be gods doing. Maybe karma for helping an old lady across the street. Who knows but th point of all this is that you have to have and open mind and faith in something. Faith in whatever you want. Religion, family , hope , love.
Faith is what keeps people going. Faith is hope that something good will happen.

May peace find you all, merry Xmas.

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Dreamytje wrote:

Thread will be updated the more things we test out! Will try on a daily basis.
*Tinfoil hat on*

So me and my map buddy are always fooling around when we are mapping, cause you know when you spam maps all the time it gets pretty repetitive. So we decided to call out weird things which would "increase" the amount of drops.

Its pretty ridiculous to say the least.

So first we started with maps which contain water have better RNG. Every time we did a map which contains water we would be like. Ahh good RNG this map.

The maps with water have hidden fishing values which can slightly boost the drops on land. Leading monsters closer to the water before killing them will NOT boost their drop rate as the proximity to water when spawned is what determines whether fishing mods apply or not.

*tin foil hat on*

I hold this theory that putting the map into each of the different map slots 'till the map yields a decent amount of map drops then staying with that map slot 'till the map RNG dies down then repeating seems to hold some merit.

*tin foil hat off*

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