How to have a chance at pink drops

[MimeRifle]

lol no I've got the case of "I don't want to explain every time I run in a pug that you don't need to disarm every bomb or save the hostages"

Ah, yes. I see. Its true... whether you save them or not, the next time you come back... more hostages! Its like throwing the starfish back in the water. Lol.

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[Slant]

uh wow 10 minutes, no one blinked at 10 minutes great you guys all hardcore

[CanonicalKoi]

PINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!

Sorry couldn't resist

Cough*Sig*Cough... Since when did I become sleepy Bod :O

Off-topic: Because you frequently are. Or, at least, you should be. And at least I snuck that one by you for a few days before you noticed it. Likely because you were sleepy....

Back on topic: To the OP: It's not like the Devs have to hover around the servers, flipping a switch marked "More Magic" every time the possibility of a drop comes around. Depending on how random you want your RNG, it's a pretty simple subroutine and a lot of computer classes use that as a first bit of programming people learn. Really...no matter how believable someone sounded when they laid out a complex ritual that must be completed in order for pinks to fall (although, the Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Swahili was a nice touch, I prefer declaiming The List of Ships from the Iliad in the original Greek), unless they can show you screenshots, take their "information" with a sizable pinch of salt.

[Nightarcher]

In order to get a Legendary, you must have not done any damage to the boss whatsoever. However, if by chance you did, you may still receive a pink item as a drop.

[TsunamiTheClown]

Random nunbers should never be left to chance.

[Kakatoa91]

Ah urban legends...

Mmm...


Btw have been in a pink weapon drop... sorry to say hostages died miserably...
And an Op double mines died lol.



If you want a real chance of a pink...
Try to join me in games...
People have been droping 9 vanities around me and I got myself 2 lol since beginning.
In sloucho didnt farm much but got 1 pink and 3 drop around me.
I m sure it would b the same for these new pinks now.

Want to have a higher chance of pink find me lol...

[Sassinya]

8. Your characters name must not be: Sassinya

[ninjaduck]

8. Your characters name must not be: Sassinya

9. Or ninjaduck

[Fatpigwarrior]

I've gotten pinks when dying so I don't believe this...

[Xaphan Fox]

You must also do a barrel roll to get pinks...

[kingatdeath]

Correct process is ...jump jump...duck....swim....time travel...finish college.... then ...wait and hope that the drop rate is still -98%

[Hullukko]

Here is the action code to have a shot at pink drops
1.Kill all enemies in all rooms.
2. Disarm all bombs
3. Save hostages
4. No One Can Die
5. Save all six barrels in boss fight
6. You have to do it in 10 min
(this is the only part i am not sure on but i know its a time limit)

If you mess up on any of these action codes you will not see pink
Remember to get a legendary item you have to do legendary things
good luck to all

I got an electrorazer yesterday, but...

1. we didn't kill all enemies
2. we didn't disarm all bombs, few perhaps
3. we didn't save the hostages (nor kill them)
4. I died
5. We didn't save all six barrels in the boss fight
6. Well, this may have happened, or may have not. We had an engineer disconnect around that time, but I can remember if it was that run.

And I most certainly didn't do legendary things, because I'm not that good an op. But what I did do is:

7. Made a few sad attempts at being funny right before the "lets roll"
8. I rebel yelled to one of them scooter looking twin pistoliers
9. I believe I passed some gas right before the hostages
10. I found an easter egg that gave a miss piggy vanity hat. I put it on immediately.
11. One of them Kermits came beckoning me but I told him to sod off.
12. The kermit got angry and stomped me pretty hard.
13. Mysterio flashed at me. Sorry bugger had no idea that there's a hairy old man behind the gorgeous lady toon. Maybe that's why I got the pistol.

So, in overall it was a pretty usual sy5 run. And oh yeah... 14. I got lucky.

[Arterra]

Chabone may not be right, but i believe part of what he says. I've noticed that with a group pinks drop infinately more than when I solo. When I solo it takes a lot longer. Sure when I solo there's less ppl- only me. However satistically I still don't get as many pinks. Usually I get none :\ Also, when theres level 60's even more pinks drop because we are moving that much faster. Personally I believe getting a good time helps increase pink %. All this information is taken from PL...I realize this is SL, but still. I wouldn't be too quick to shun chabone's theory.

i would think that group = faster clearing = more clears per hour = more chances for your to get pink.

random wins again!

edit, f all fails, try clicking rapidly up-up-right-Lbutton-Start.

[Slant]

well ill let you know one that actually works, just before the boss dies, disconnect your wifi or find a way to disconnect the internet line from the server. If you time this right, when you come back in, your pack will have a purp and you will be the only one that drops it in the room. Donno why it happens may be a glitch or something.

[JazzBlue]

I can also confirm that the konami code, and xyzzy (both LONG standing cheat codes for many games in the past) do NOTHING when typed in this game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xyzzy

yeah, I know. Showing my age here a little bit...

I'm also down for the naked dance routine runs if someone wants to see a party wipe!

[Arterra]

you know, TECHNICALLY it might be possible to abuse a RNG system.

The game Fire Emblem has a very, very simple method: a pre-packaged loooong list of numbers, between 0 and 99. there was a way in game to find out if the next number was above or below 49, critical knowledge for stat-boosting and battles.

Now, i would wager that STS' system is NOT just a long list cycling thru the numbers, and might be based on the server time or something. If they are using tiny measurements, then yes it might as well be impossible to replicate results.

[Slant]

its less than random each char has a seed for drops, your drops throughout the game are predetermined when you make the char, so some ppl will get many vanities (ever notice how people who drop 1 drop 3 as well, and there are others who never ever drop?) but never any recipes, and others will get only recipes but never and weapons, and some people drop only pinks but not anything else, also there is a total quota of drops per player per cap, so you wont drop more than 20 helms/chests/backs no matter how much you play, and probably only 4 items will drop again and again all those 20 times. this locked approach ensures scarcity, so players can never really beat the drops or spam the ah no matter how much they farm.

jkofcumad?

[Arterra]

its less than random each char has a seed for drops, your drops throughout the game are predetermined when you make the char, so some ppl will get many vanities (ever notice how people who drop 1 drop 3 as well, and there are others who never ever drop?) but never any recipes, and others will get only recipes but never and weapons, and some people drop only pinks but not anything else, also there is a total quota of drops per player per cap, so you wont drop more than 20 helms/chests/backs no matter how much you play, and probably only 4 items will drop again and again all those 20 times

jkofcumad?

Calvinistic approach? ouch.
Quota of pinks per minute? nah. then the heavy farmers/rushers would get them, and would lead towards the imbalance that the random system fixes.

[LilMiss]

Its called a random code gern there not hard to code and work well with server resets

[BodMaster]

I'm also down for the naked dance routine runs if someone wants to see a party wipe!

Need one more person