Missions & Complexes

Hello,

being aware that the amount of sites that I was running after last patch is too low to be of empirical value, I would nevertheless askl if someone made similiar experience:

I am tracking the loot from those sites as they are a bit borderline with respect to worth running or not.

So, before patch minimum value of site was somehow determined by the amount of covert research tools which was never below 25 in total (from the Thukker array and the can together). My overall average in running them since tracking was 37.8 mln based on 143 sites.

After patch I had not one single site that contained even 20 tools. Which results in some of them being worth less than 7 mln in total loot with before patch lowest loot value ever was 10.2 mln and the average loot being 10.7 mln based on 13 sites. Again, low numbers but the immediate change in the amount of tools dropped feels not like being random.

DId someone notice the same? Is there any ressource for complex loot tables available? If the current drops are representative, those sites are definitely not worth running anymore.

Thanks in advance.

Of course, but this was not really the question. It was more "did someone take one dice out of 5, because I never get 5 of a kind anymore?"

I believe that was why they were asking if anyone else has had similiar experiences? Sure it could still be random, but if you have 50 people who have ran 50 sites each and they all have the same results, odds are it isn't random.

Sorry I can't add to your sample size, I havn't ran any since the patch. I did run one a couple weeks ago and noticed that I got a lot of faction ammo, how long has that been there for? Previously to that I hadn't ran one in a few months and there wasn't any ammo back then

Nobody really knows if loot tables have been adjusted or not. If you've been doing it for quite a while and you've noticed a definite difference in it then yes, it's been changed.

Some may agree and others will disagree. And still others will simply say RNG.

Now when RNG is used as an answer, that person is actually saying they don't know. However due to EPEEN they still need to post an answer and make it look like they know. Thus the perfect answer that can't be proved or disproved is the go-to answer - RNG.



DMC

Yes, but I do not want to run 10,000 sites to have a much higher propability that the theory that it is not worth running is correct.

And no worries, I would have bet all my ISK that someone tells me "its just random". Which is by the way propably not true as there is most likely a distribution mechanic behind it. Empirical analysis seems to show that a given minimum and maximum number of loot exists. Within those boundaries it is most likely be determined by a RNG.

She's here trying to increase her sample size, not prove her case. What is it you dont understand about that?