Anyone ever noticed?

**Lowlyspy** · 10-09-2011, 08:19 PM

Ive been running a lot over the last few days and ive made an observation. For some reason it seems to me that when u get a drop that 3/4 of the time it ends up being for a different class. No im not just saying that, i have acutally done some looking into it.

I ran through the first 4 campaigns just about nonstop yesterday and counted how many class specific items i got through the whole day while running as my engi. The total came out to 456 class specific items in about 6 hours, of that number only 115 of them were engineer items while there were 193 commando items and 145 operative items. If you break that down to a percentage (these are just rough percentages so they may be a little off due to the fact that im doing them in my head, please feel free to correct me on these) you get roughly 29-31% engineer items, 36-40% operative, and 45-49% commando.

Is this a trend between the classes? If i go through and do the same thing again with my operative will i get less operative pieces than the other classes? What about if i use my commando?

Any input on my theory?

**ThePvpTwink** · 10-09-2011, 08:22 PM

Maybe there are more commando items than operative and engineer items?

**Lowlyspy** · 10-09-2011, 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by ThePvpTwink:442355

Maybe there are more commando items than operative and engineer items?

No, i have checked, each class has the same amount of items.

**Otukura** · 10-09-2011, 08:24 PM

I never did exact statistics, but when I was leveling my Eng from 1-7, I felt the same way. 3/4 feels like you're being conservative.

**javier995** · 10-09-2011, 08:24 PM

Yes i have noticed the same. Also I've noticed that when i run with:
engi i get more com drops
com i get more op drops
op i get more engi drops
I may be wrong through my observation,but thats how i see it in my runs.

**Lowlyspy** · 10-09-2011, 08:25 PM

Originally Posted by javier995:442360

Yes i have noticed the same. Also I've noticed that when i run with:
engi i get more com drops
com i get more op drops
op i get more engi drops
I may be wrong through my observation,but thats how i see it in my runs.

thats exactly what i was thinking. I bet i can break the system and get TONS of awesome commando drops!

**javier995** · 10-09-2011, 08:29 PM

Originally Posted by Lowlyspy:442363

Originally Posted by javier995:442360

Yes i have noticed the same. Also I've noticed that when i run with:
engi i get more com drops
com i get more op drops
op i get more engi drops
I may be wrong through my observation,but thats how i see it in my runs.

thats exactly what i was thinking. I bet i can break the system and get TONS of awesome commando drops!

lol go for it

**Kakatoa91** · 10-10-2011, 01:18 AM

Yep notice this also with my main op gettin a slight bit more of other class drop while doing long non-stop runs. Yesterday if I remember well on about 400 drops if I count only the class specific drop, had only 3 op greens for 8 greens and 3 purps engi/com. Yellow, I didnt bother to check.

On a simplify formula should be:
kill mob,
Drop no or yes:
No, nothing;
Yes, item class or not:
for each player in range,
Not, roll % for color;
Yes, roll % for color and roll % class.

In other mmo games, the % of getting an other class specific or even opposite gender (hope they wont do this here lol) drop is more obvious.
The devs accentuate this for the economy/ trade. To develop interactions between players.
So its not a theory, devs do this in other games and STS devs probably do the same with their games.

**CanonicalKoi** · 10-10-2011, 08:28 AM

I think there's a whole lot of random involved. My first Op it seemed like it was forever before getting anything it could use (I think I was level 5 or 6 before I go to upgrade from the level 1 flashguns!). The first auto-level Op in contrast, was fully decked out in Op armor and decent flashguns by the end of the Dynastar saga.