Category talk:Drop rates data


 * About all these numbers, you give a date but you dont tell what time period/length of period you observed this, or am I looking at this the wrong way and thats not what your going for? Renegade of Funk 01:19, 6 April 2006 (CDT)


 * The date is automatically included in the siganture, it isn't used for anything. The point of the project is to see what stuff drops from certain monsters and what percentage there is to drop certain loot. 01:24, 6 April 2006 (CDT)


 * Yes but with the updates etc. there could be nerfed drops, etc. during the observation(slim chance but one none the less). Renegade of Funk 01:27, 6 April 2006 (CDT)


 * That is true. You could be more detailed here if you want. Each time we add new drop rates we make a new column. This gives a certain time period. It should also be easily seen if radical changes are made, but small modifications are hard or impossible to detect. 01:32, 6 April 2006 (CDT)


 * I don't even believe in nerfed drops. :) The only nerf I seem to recall (though my memory is fading) is that the Darknesses in the UW used to drop Ecto and no longer does. In this case you can immediately tell this by the fact that they no longer drop crafting materials altogether. This happens so rarely we need not worry about it, and when it happens, the data will show it in consecutive readings. i.e. Let's say they nerf the Smite Crawlers so that they no longer drop ecto. One user's readings will show that they drop few ectos and then a busload of weapons, remains and gold (that was data collected around the update) and then the next guy's data will just show zeroes for ectos. And we will be able to observe when the nerf took place.
 * I am just more interested in making the data collection as simple as possible. If you want to time stamp each collection of drops, feel free to do so. --Karlos 06:32, 6 April 2006 (CDT)