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Jincha Mungchungi
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Posted - 2006.05.21 05:11:00 -
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Been trying to figure this out...this is my theory.
X BPO comes up for grabs.
Player Z wins X BPO.
Player Z is awarded X BPO by Agent Y.
Agent Y is likely a high level agent, as the player who has the most RP's has a higher chance to win the lottery.
The players with the larger number of RP's would likely be working with a high level agent.
In fact, any level agent with whom you have any # of RP's "could" win the BPO, but in 99% of the cases the BPO's go to the player's working with the higher level agents.
Is this how it works? Does this make sense.
It gives you an incentive to use the higher level agents. So if you were thinking that you were smart and were using a lvl 3, 2, or even lvl 1 agent because no one else was and that was increasing your chances of winning a BPO in the lottery...you would be wrong.
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Andrew Gunn
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Posted - 2006.05.21 08:50:00 -
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Higher level agent means more Research Points (RP) per day, all agents that give out a certain BPO (like the Gallentean Starship stuff) are in the same lottery. It is not on a per agent basis. --
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Thrassus
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Posted - 2006.05.22 02:48:00 -
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You're logic is slightly flawed. Given the same time frame and other factors, people using higher level agents would end up with more RPs. However, when the lottery for the BPO is held, there will be some people who've been working with a level 2 agent for 2 years with tons more RPs than someone who just started with a level 4 agent a month ago. Plus people running the daily missions could easily end up with more points using a lower level agent than someone with a higher level agent who never runs the daily missions.
So it boils down to who has been researching the longest, with the most agents, with the highest level agents, with the highest level skills in the appropriate field, and running the daily "ran into a problem mission" as well as whatever other factors I might be leaving out.
But overall, your basic point that a higher level agent is better to use than a lower level one is valid, but is definitely far from being the only or even the main factor in winning.
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Ghoest
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Posted - 2006.05.22 05:03:00 -
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I suspect they simply make a pool of all the research points applicable for a given BPO, where each point correlates to a number. Then they "randomly" pick numbers from the pool.
Wherever you went - here you are.
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DJ P
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Posted - 2006.05.22 16:38:00 -
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There is somewhere a problem in the whole thing ofc.
a) How is possible Amarr agent give away Hybrid Ammo, or Caldari Agent Minmatar Ammo.
b) How is possible people with 50000-60000 RP not get anything the last year, while another person getting a bpo per 4-5 weeks on the same fields at 8,000-10,000 RP. The probability is very odd/spooky and out of the scale.
They are both my friends. And that frustrate the first person because the friend B is getting all the time BPO, where A has 5-6 times more RP on the same fields.
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ElCoCo
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Posted - 2006.05.22 18:27:00 -
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Before they started with the T2 handouts, they had plans of dividing BPO's by region as well... was that ever implemented?
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Jarra
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Posted - 2006.05.22 19:13:00 -
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Got a bpo T2 from a level 1 agent. So im not that "hot" about chasin higher level agents then the lower ones. I have a few r/d agents....enough for me :) -- Diplomacy is like saying "nice doggy" until u can find a bigger rock:)
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Raider Zero
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Posted - 2006.05.25 21:05:00 -
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Originally by: DJ P There is somewhere a problem in the whole thing ofc.
a) How is possible Amarr agent give away Hybrid Ammo, or Caldari Agent Minmatar Ammo.
b) How is possible people with 50000-60000 RP not get anything the last year, while another person getting a bpo per 4-5 weeks on the same fields at 8,000-10,000 RP. The probability is very odd/spooky and out of the scale.
They are both my friends. And that frustrate the first person because the friend B is getting all the time BPO, where A has 5-6 times more RP on the same fields.
a) You are researching a field and not a race. Every agent has certain BPO's availble in their scientific field, and that does not necessarily correlate with race of the agent.
b) Such is the nature of "random" when there are so few values. If this lottery were held several thousand times, the people with the massive RP would be rewarded significanly more often. Since the lottery is very infrequent and there are very few winners, there is not enough data, and more outliers (like your friend) can skew the overall odds of winning.
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