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An Ode to the MYTHICAL VTOL
ccarmichael07
Posts: 755 Arc User
Oh tempest that draws the tears from my eyes, how you scorn thee.
40 times I have tried to wrap my fingers around you, only to grasp water balloons.
Why must you mock me so?
Fate has divined to barr me from obtaining you sleek jet-like physique, a payback for all the vehicles and starships I ever got with hardly any effort.
Alas, it is simply not meant to be.
The first vehicle I have truly wanted in this game, for a character I built that would be so fitting for it, and it still eludes me.
I think my hatred of the lockboxes has never run so high. In all the times I've attempted to gain a vehicle or starship from one of these frustrating boxes, I've never gone past about 10-15 keys. Good luck I guess, up until now.
I have yet to actually see one of these out in the game world yet. Is the drop rate on the VTOL even more horrendous than usual, or is fate balancing the scales for my past transgressions? I have to think the drop rate is worse than usual, as it seems no one has any for sale either, which is highly unusual.
/sigh
40 times I have tried to wrap my fingers around you, only to grasp water balloons.
Why must you mock me so?
Fate has divined to barr me from obtaining you sleek jet-like physique, a payback for all the vehicles and starships I ever got with hardly any effort.
Alas, it is simply not meant to be.
The first vehicle I have truly wanted in this game, for a character I built that would be so fitting for it, and it still eludes me.
I think my hatred of the lockboxes has never run so high. In all the times I've attempted to gain a vehicle or starship from one of these frustrating boxes, I've never gone past about 10-15 keys. Good luck I guess, up until now.
I have yet to actually see one of these out in the game world yet. Is the drop rate on the VTOL even more horrendous than usual, or is fate balancing the scales for my past transgressions? I have to think the drop rate is worse than usual, as it seems no one has any for sale either, which is highly unusual.
/sigh
"You shoot him, I shoot you, I leave both your bodies here and go out for a late night snack.
I'm thinking maybe pancakes." ~ John Casey
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Also I've spent close to 100 bucks on lock boxes that contained vehicles and have never gotten a single one. Already your luck is much better than mine.
That means that to get a vehicle, on average you would have to open four hundred boxes. Of course, that doesn't guarantee one every 400 boxes; you could get one in your fourth box (as I heard someone announce on the first day they were out), or you could open a thousand and not see any.
I'm still opening boxes on live in hopes of getting one, but I'm also saving some of the Drifter Salvage so that I can grab one should they offer a variant in the Drifter Store.
@flamingbunnyman in game. Formerly @Roderick in City of Heroes.
If I had seen the post above I wouldn't have wasted my time/money on a 0.25% drop rate.
Ridiculous.
I wouldn't feel quite so bad if there was a drifter salvage version.
Jeez.
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Think about it: Would you buy 400 keys for this plane (or any other become or vehicle they have or might release)? A lot of people won't even buy one key at those odds.
If it was a 5% chance, would you buy 20 keys to get it? I think a LOT more people would at those rates. Twenty times as many? I don't know. But somewhere, there's a balance that gives us better odds and them more money.
@flamingbunnyman in game. Formerly @Roderick in City of Heroes.
Why low chance works better than high chance for some, according to an old study I barely recall beyond the base details
Let's say we have three groups of hamster.
One has a pellet of food drop every time they pull the lever.
The other has a pellet of food come whenever they go for a run of a certain length then press the lever.
The third has a pellet appear at random presses of the lever.
Group 1: presses lever when desiring food, never more.
Group 2: adjusts behaviour to get food as required.
Group 3: loses it's mind and presses that lever like it's 1999 and it stops the Y2K bug occurring.
In short, low chances with a degree of random are a bit more attractive to spend capital, in this case, time spent that could have been used getting food more reliably, than high chances...
But there is a tolerance to this. Too low chance, and the hamster will give up. Too high, and it will only press when it absolutely needs it.
I think this gets weird when it's something you technically don't need in this game, like the vehicles, but I don't have the funds to test hamsters liking something trivial but enjoyable like tiny trading cards or something.
Good Lord, if that is close to the real drop percentage, that's incredibly bad.
I had assumed it was something like 2% to 5%.
Ugh. I'm done. I like the looks of the VTOL, but not that much, and I've already spent far more than I wanted to trying to get it.
"You shoot him, I shoot you, I leave both your bodies here and go out for a late night snack.
I'm thinking maybe pancakes." ~ John Casey
@flamingbunnyman in game. Formerly @Roderick in City of Heroes.
If percent chance of VTOL dropping is 0.25%, that means you have a 99.75% chance of it not dropping.
So if you open two together, you get a 99.75%^2 chance of it not dropping at all.
400 boxes means 99.75%^400 chance of it not dropping at all, which conversely gives you 63% chance of it dropping at least once.
So if the players, as a whole, opened 1,000,000 boxes, about 2,500 would contain vehicles.
@flamingbunnyman in game. Formerly @Roderick in City of Heroes.
RIP Caine
You're a jerk.
I only mean that in terms of lockboxes. Otherwise, you seem like a standup fellow.
@flamingbunnyman in game. Formerly @Roderick in City of Heroes.
I immediately gave away to my best bud.
I really don't care much for any of the vehicles currently available.
I want a bike darn it.
*I don't spend real money on the f*cking things, I use my stipend.
Here we are now going to the West Side
Weapons in hand as we go for a ride
Some may come and some may stay
Watching out for a sunny day
Where there's love and darkness and my sidearm
In game as @forgemccain
I saw one, ummm like 6k?
But I bet you they'd go for more
Here we are now going to the West Side
Weapons in hand as we go for a ride
Some may come and some may stay
Watching out for a sunny day
Where there's love and darkness and my sidearm
In game as @forgemccain
my score so far
about 150 boxes, maybe more(2 accts)
no vehicle
no purple
3 blue boxes- gloves, gloves,gloves
about 20 green boxes- for alts
too many Blasted noise visualizers, I think they are my highest drop as I had over 70 of them
salvage,
198+ 206 +92 + 83=579(2 characters were opening)
I got a truly ridiculous amount of 10's
toy boxes, costume peices and af's.. I got a brain bot and immediately thought of Dr Cerebellum and posted it to them.
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I've advertised all over the Zone chat. It seems no one has a spare to sell, or at least not at a time when I've been on.
If I ever see one advertised though...
These lockboxes are for the birds. Cryptic might be making money with them, but I hope the Ghost of Christmas Past pays them a visit this year and reminds them about the pursuit of wealth at the cost of their fellow man.
Or something like that. :biggrin:
"You shoot him, I shoot you, I leave both your bodies here and go out for a late night snack.
I'm thinking maybe pancakes." ~ John Casey
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I've given up on the sharkfin set now. I accept the fact that I'll never own it. I admit that I should have known better then to waste zen on the shady carnival game that is the lockbox system but seeing the chance at new costume pieces suckered me in.
You'd think that they'd be ashamed to call 25 rank 3 mods a prize but whatever, that's sour grapes talking I suppose. I should have known better: disappointment seems to be what Cryptic strives for these days.