YOU DUMBFUCKS!!! The tt of the last drop is apportioned over the amount of minerals you are looking for! If you have 20 left on a L13, each find gets roughly a 7ped multiplication factor on a triple drop....NOT 20!
I have found numerous 2 or 3 claim drops on the last drop (when there technically wasn't enough tt left on the amp to amp like the previous drops) and the sizes were ALWAYS smaller then the double or triple drops before it!
There is no reason not to believe in what Sunsout said.
If it works like Sun said, then its a feature not a bug.
Why feature?
Easy do only 1 search fully amped, or do 3/2 searches 1/3 aka 1/2 amped.
Its up to the miner what to do - 1 hit chance ATH, 2 or 3 hits just only UBER or small HoF
Actually I am not surprised that some experienced miner jumped it to tell comunity how it really works, and I am not surprised that it works like this.
If it would be a serious bug someone could take advantage MA surely would have fixed it long ago, but they leave it as a feature, same as some other "bugs" have been left as a feature (e.g. coat bug).
Why do I think so?
Well MA fixed trapping bug, don´t know how many trapped spiders have been killed with Opallos, no armor decay and no fap decay in the past. Obviously to many, as MA fixed it.
As MA doesn´t fix, adjust or react in any other way to support cases in relation to this "bug" it obviously work as intended.
Thanks Sunsout for clearing some facts + REP