IP Addresses and Luck
mssabin49
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A GM friend of mine recently suggested that IP addresses bear heavily on the kind of luck we have in the game.
By luck, I mean the items we do or do not get when opening packs and the amount of drops we might get when in squad mode.
I've been playing PWI on multiple servers for well over two years and I've consistently noticed that I rarely get drops in squad mode (5 molds on 6 alts in two years) and the amount of items I receive when opening packs are almost nonexistent; for instance, in opening $50 worth of Socket packs, I received 99% 10-socket packs and no gems. I don't even want to get into my abysmal results during the recent Lucky Coral and Tiger Pack event, where I spent an obscene amount to get one Lunar Cape and an FCC weapon. Oh, and the Battle Pet packs -- I have 3 hercs, each of which cost me about $300 because nearly 100% of the packs were for 10 feathers or SoF.
This is not a QQ; I'm fortunate enough to have a nice income and plenty of disposable money to invest in the game. Contrariwise, I'm rapidly approaching the moment when I'll no longer be willing to flush money down the toilet to support a game where the deck is stacked so completely against me.
Doubtless, some will follow up this post gloating about how lucky they are. Others will accuse me of wining about my bad luck. The point they will be missing is that it is not luck at all; rather, it's a matter of nothing more than an obscure algorithm, based entirely on your IP address, that predetermines how successful you're going to be in the game.
My question, PWI, is why should some of us fight an up hill battle from the onset while others are destined to cruise their way through the game?
If the trolls want to accuse me of being a sucker, I suppose that's a title that fits. But no more, PWI has gotten the last of my money.
By luck, I mean the items we do or do not get when opening packs and the amount of drops we might get when in squad mode.
I've been playing PWI on multiple servers for well over two years and I've consistently noticed that I rarely get drops in squad mode (5 molds on 6 alts in two years) and the amount of items I receive when opening packs are almost nonexistent; for instance, in opening $50 worth of Socket packs, I received 99% 10-socket packs and no gems. I don't even want to get into my abysmal results during the recent Lucky Coral and Tiger Pack event, where I spent an obscene amount to get one Lunar Cape and an FCC weapon. Oh, and the Battle Pet packs -- I have 3 hercs, each of which cost me about $300 because nearly 100% of the packs were for 10 feathers or SoF.
This is not a QQ; I'm fortunate enough to have a nice income and plenty of disposable money to invest in the game. Contrariwise, I'm rapidly approaching the moment when I'll no longer be willing to flush money down the toilet to support a game where the deck is stacked so completely against me.
Doubtless, some will follow up this post gloating about how lucky they are. Others will accuse me of wining about my bad luck. The point they will be missing is that it is not luck at all; rather, it's a matter of nothing more than an obscure algorithm, based entirely on your IP address, that predetermines how successful you're going to be in the game.
My question, PWI, is why should some of us fight an up hill battle from the onset while others are destined to cruise their way through the game?
If the trolls want to accuse me of being a sucker, I suppose that's a title that fits. But no more, PWI has gotten the last of my money.
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lol ip address has no effect on pack luck. nor does it effect luck in anything period especially since both me and my fiance get random luck on everything.
oh and i love how you say "gm friend"[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
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Escorian - Dreamweaver wrote: »lol ip address has no effect on pack luck. nor does it effect luck in anything period especially since both me and my fiance get random luck on everything.
You're wrong. What you're really saying is you and your fiance are fortunate enough to have IP addresses that are not negatively impacted. "lol" does not offer up proof of anything.0 -
You're wrong. What you're really saying is you and your fiance are fortunate enough to have IP addresses that are not negatively impacted. "lol" does not offer up proof of anything.
lets see your proof that it affects it because lets face it, it requires no effort for proof when your on my side of the arguement all you said is you have bad luck lol.
edit: hey we can even solve it here and now post a ss of your gm friend saying it or lets see your gm friend post in here saying its affected by it.[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
ty Nowitsawn
Everything has its beginnings, but it doesn't start at one. It starts long before that... The world is born From zero. The moment zero becomes one is the moment the world springs to life. One becomes 2. 2 becomes 10. 10 becomes 100. taking it all back to one solves nothing. so long as zero remains... One.. Will eventually grow to 100 again.0 -
Escorian - Dreamweaver wrote: »lets see your proof that it affects it because lets face it, it requires no effort for proof when your on my side of the arguement all you said is you have bad luck lol.
edit: hey we can even solve it here and now post a ss of your gm friend saying it or lets see your gm friend post in here saying its affected by it.
Face it, you don't know one way or the other. I will not post the GM's name or the conversation because it was given to to me in strictest confidence and I'm not going to get them fired over it.
My question, Escorian: why are you arguing about something you know absolutely nothing about? Do feel free to offer up something more than your opinion.0 -
Face it, you don't know one way or the other. I will not post the GM's name or the conversation because it was given to to me in strictest confidence and I'm not going to get them fired over it.
My question, Escorian: why are you arguing about something you know absolutely nothing about? Do feel free to offer up something more than your opinion.
my point is your just on here qqing cause you have horrible luck period. trying to blame it on an ip address is stupid as hell. the fact is YOU know nothing about this. it was given to you in the strictest confidence? then why would you come on pwi forums complaining about it? your gm friend would get pissed off about it. we all know your just saying you have a gm friend so people will take you seriously. b:chuckle
edit: also it falls on you to post proof of what your saying. not the other person.[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
ty Nowitsawn
Everything has its beginnings, but it doesn't start at one. It starts long before that... The world is born From zero. The moment zero becomes one is the moment the world springs to life. One becomes 2. 2 becomes 10. 10 becomes 100. taking it all back to one solves nothing. so long as zero remains... One.. Will eventually grow to 100 again.0 -
Escorian - Dreamweaver wrote: »my point is your just on here qqing cause you have horrible luck period. trying to blame it on an ip address is stupid as hell. the fact is YOU know nothing about this. it was given to you in the strictest confidence? then why would you come on pwi forums complaining about it? your gm friend would get pissed off about it. we all know your just saying you have a gm friend so people will take you seriously. b:chuckle
Oh, please, do better than that. Statements, like "we all know," which are intended to legitimize your shallow opinions are utterly transparent.
If you can neither prove nor disprove my statements, then please bow out. The fact that you've now resorted to calling my post a QQ is yet another indicator of the weakness of your argument.
Prove or disprove what I've said.0 -
Oh, please, do better than that. Statements, like "we all know," which are intended to legitimize your shallow opinions are utterly transparent.
If you can neither prove nor disprove my statements, then please bow out. The fact that you've now resorted to calling my post a QQ is yet another indicator of the weakness of your argument.
Prove or disprove what I've said.
lol again it falls on you to prove what your stating but your refusing to show any proof of what your saying. your proving to us infact that you are nothing but a complete whiner when it comes to your luck and are looking for any specific reason to blame it on anything but luck. again if your gonna complain about something then you have to back it up not look for other people to back it up for you.[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
ty Nowitsawn
Everything has its beginnings, but it doesn't start at one. It starts long before that... The world is born From zero. The moment zero becomes one is the moment the world springs to life. One becomes 2. 2 becomes 10. 10 becomes 100. taking it all back to one solves nothing. so long as zero remains... One.. Will eventually grow to 100 again.0 -
Escorian - Dreamweaver wrote: »lol again it falls on you to prove what your stating but your refusing to show any proof of what your saying. your proving to us infact that you are nothing but a complete whiner when it comes to your luck and are looking for any specific reason to blame it on anything but luck. again if your gonna complain about something then you have to back it up not look for other people to back it up for you.
This is my last response on the subject, as I've no intention of debasing myself to sophomoric name-calling.
As you well know, I cannot prove my claim; neither can you disprove it. PWI is not going to admit to the fact, and that makes it a rather moot issue.
One fact does remain, you haven't any substantive basis for challenging my statement.0 -
This was a lol moment post, There's no affect on IP addresses VS luck with packs. My brother plays occasionally on his characters on MY SAME LAPTOP that I use, his pack luck is nearly 10 times greater than mine is, where I'd get out 10 gold coin boxes from cube (the 1m ones) 9 sadness cards and 1 Ecstasy, he'd get 5 of each, 50 packs for me would get me 49 token packs 1 BL pack. 50 for him would be 5 BL 3 charms, and the occasional event item.
We're on THE SAME IP ADDRESS, THE SAME LAPTOP. That alone blows your lie out of the water
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Unless someones broken my record i still have the record of worst pack luck :P(500 packs with every single pack normal tokens) Wtb ip address b:thanksShhh don't troll, it's yulk bait.0
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Escorian - Dreamweaver wrote: »lol ip address has no effect on pack luck. nor does it effect luck in anything period especially since both me and my fiance get random luck on everything.
oh and i love how you say "gm friend"Larkray - Dreamweaver wrote: »This was a lol moment post, There's no affect on IP addresses VS luck with packs. My brother plays occasionally on his characters on MY SAME LAPTOP that I use, his pack luck is nearly 10 times greater than mine is, where I'd get out 10 gold coin boxes from cube (the 1m ones) 9 sadness cards and 1 Ecstasy, he'd get 5 of each, 50 packs for me would get me 49 token packs 1 BL pack. 50 for him would be 5 BL 3 charms, and the occasional event item.
We're on THE SAME IP ADDRESS, THE SAME LAPTOP. That alone blows your lie out of the waterThis is my last response on the subject, as I've no intention of debasing myself to sophomoric name-calling.
As you well know, I cannot prove my claim; neither can you disprove it. PWI is not going to admit to the fact, and that makes it a rather moot issue.
One fact does remain, you haven't any substantive basis for challenging my statement.
lets see 2 people with the same ip both cases and both have different luck... him i think your "theory" was disproven. your "statement" was nothing you made up except to try to make an excuse for your horrible luck.[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
ty Nowitsawn
Everything has its beginnings, but it doesn't start at one. It starts long before that... The world is born From zero. The moment zero becomes one is the moment the world springs to life. One becomes 2. 2 becomes 10. 10 becomes 100. taking it all back to one solves nothing. so long as zero remains... One.. Will eventually grow to 100 again.0 -
april fools day joke?b:surrender at least i hope the OP was jokingb:chuckle0
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if your ip address starts with a number over 255 youre gona be lucky with every single pack you open0
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Gorwulf - Sanctuary wrote: »if your ip address starts with a number over 255 youre gona be lucky with every single pack you open
b:chuckle
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My GM friend told me if you live in Antartica,every pack you open will have Scroll of Tomes,even Battle Pet Packs.
My GM friend also told me if you are level 1 and you gain exactly 1xp,you auto level to 150.0 -
My friends Admins invited me to a cup of tea to discuss IPv6.
Their Dev friends also want to implement a new idea:
If your IP has the numbers 777 in it, then you have 90% chance to get awesome stuff, but if it has 666 in it, you won't get anything good.
Also if you open a pack from an IP that never donated, you have 50% rise in chance of goodies the first three tries so that makes you donate and buy tons of packs, however if your IP already donated, the chance goes back to normal.0 -
A GM friend of mine recently suggested that IP addresses bear heavily on the kind of luck we have in the game.
By luck, I mean the items we do or do not get when opening packs and the amount of drops we might get when in squad mode.
I've been playing PWI on multiple servers for well over two years and I've consistently noticed that I rarely get drops in squad mode (5 molds on 6 alts in two years) and the amount of items I receive when opening packs are almost nonexistent; for instance, in opening $50 worth of Socket packs, I received 99% 10-socket packs and no gems. I don't even want to get into my abysmal results during the recent Lucky Coral and Tiger Pack event, where I spent an obscene amount to get one Lunar Cape and an FCC weapon. Oh, and the Battle Pet packs -- I have 3 hercs, each of which cost me about $300 because nearly 100% of the packs were for 10 feathers or SoF.
This is not a QQ; I'm fortunate enough to have a nice income and plenty of disposable money to invest in the game. Contrariwise, I'm rapidly approaching the moment when I'll no longer be willing to flush money down the toilet to support a game where the deck is stacked so completely against me.
Doubtless, some will follow up this post gloating about how lucky they are. Others will accuse me of wining about my bad luck. The point they will be missing is that it is not luck at all; rather, it's a matter of nothing more than an obscure algorithm, based entirely on your IP address, that predetermines how successful you're going to be in the game.
My question, PWI, is why should some of us fight an up hill battle from the onset while others are destined to cruise their way through the game?
If the trolls want to accuse me of being a sucker, I suppose that's a title that fits. But no more, PWI has gotten the last of my money.
I pew pew ur lies
i have opened over 20k gold in packs for friends and guild mates as well as myself (all in total btw) the few packs i bought cuz i cant CS
i r broke has left me with mostly tokens i got lucky on 50 once got a scroll and my cloudcharger cape ina pack of 50 
the other 19.9k were from friends to open for them since my luck for opening other peoples packs is better then opening my own -.-;
i have gotten enough event helms and boots lunar and fc weps rings best lucks capes tokens gems charms tomes and stupid ****ing crab mounts for friends that u could gear a faction -.-
the IP has nothing to do with it my point is its like buying a lottery ticket then losing and saying well only people on this block in this city who are awake at this time of day and eat this for dinner will win
stop making sheet up
as well why 3 hurcs? why not just change 2 sets of the hurc things in to nixs have 2 nixs anda hurc o.o or 2 hurcs anda nix :O0 -
Gorwulf - Sanctuary wrote: »if your ip address starts with a number over 255 youre gona be lucky with every single pack you open
Almost right. There's only 1 lucky IP address: 255.255.255.255 b:victory[sigpic][/sigpic]
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