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Sabahl
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Posted - 2004.03.25 21:42:00 -
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Seconded. This lottery is broken. We now have enough data in the players' domain to absolutely state that your code is faulty. You may not want to believe it is true but the numbers are not lying.
And I would like to add that as a player who decided in December to continue playing Eve in the hope that Castor would allow me the chance of being able to obtain a tech 2 BP, thus sustaining my interest in the game, this isn't the way I hoped things would pan out. I voiced my concerns about the lottery early on in the patch forum, when it was still on the drawing board. The shoddy implementation and lack of foresight as to the overall dynamics involved, coupled with what has now been demonstrated to be a faulty implementation has more or less made the most important player-effecting part of Castor a complete joke.
Someone please wake me up when we are out of Beta.
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Sabahl
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Posted - 2004.03.25 21:49:00 -
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Before this thread gets derailed by people talking about how many RPs they have please understand this is not about NOT getting BPs. This is about the BP assignment mechanism being broken. So please, no more posts about "I have fifteen squillion RPs and haven;t yet got my Snargle Blaster BP".
Thaaaannnks.
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Sabahl
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Posted - 2004.03.25 21:53:00 -
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I feel sorry for those who have dedicated hours and hours of game time doing agent missions/R&D and get nothing.
Then Johnny-Cum-Lately does 3 R&D missions and gets an Interceptor BP to sell for 0.5 billion isk.
Irrelevent as well, Joshua. The fact is certain people have received the same BP twice from certain agents. This points to an error in the code to allot the BPs.
And for the benefit of those who can't join the dots, if people are being assigned multiple BPs in a non-random manner (which they obviously are) then it is more or less a dead cert that the original BP assignment process is non-random as well. In which case a large percentage of the research agent runners have been wasting their time.
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Sabahl
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Posted - 2004.03.25 21:58:00 -
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Tease, I think your findings are symptomatic but not absolute. It wouldn't explain why the same people are getting the same BPs from the same agent, for one thing. A person with 20k RPs getting an interceptor BP and then getting the same interceptor BP a week or two later with a couple of thousand RPs points to something a tad less obvious being wrong.
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Sabahl
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Posted - 2004.03.26 01:06:00 -
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There is only one upside to all this. today I was discussing with one of my associates exactly how best to exploit the marketing potential of her second interceptor BP in the space of two weeks from the same agent. And yes, it was indeed the same interceptor type as well. Of course, it's a tiny tiny upside which affects two people. The downside affects...well...pretty much the rest of the player base.
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Sabahl
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Posted - 2004.03.26 03:30:00 -
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Kind of missing the point there Skillz. If they did increase the release of theBPs then, given the info we have, the same people would merely be receiving more of the same BPs.
Is that really what you want?
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