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There is one other possibility that I have been thinking.

The Item's might have a criteria that has to be met in order to loot, like rings.

Its very possible the reason these items are falling to same person could be in order for the item to become available to drop you need to have a target:

DPS - your damage per second needs to be above X limit for item to become available to drop
Kill Rate - you have to be killing mobs at a fast enough rate for item to become available to drop
Number of Kills - you have to have killed an X number of mobs item to become available to drop
Length of Hunt - you have to have hunted on that mob more then X amount of minutes / hours item to become available to drop

If one or all of these factors applies then it answers alot of things, alot of people might can not match these criteria.
 
KullXP said:
There is one other possibility that I have been thinking.

The Item's might have a criteria that has to be met in order to loot, like rings.

Its very possible the reason these items are falling to same person could be in order for the item to become available to drop you need to have a target:

DPS - your damage per second needs to be above X limit for item to become available to drop
Kill Rate - you have to be killing mobs at a fast enough rate for item to become available to drop
Number of Kills - you have to have killed an X number of mobs item to become available to drop
Length of Hunt - you have to have hunted on that mob more then X amount of minutes / hours item to become available to drop

If one or all of these factors applies then it answers alot of things, alot of people might can not match these criteria.
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Great points - BUT - you need to know the mob it is going to drop from !!
 
KullXP said:
There is one other possibility that I have been thinking.

The Item's might have a criteria that has to be met in order to loot, like rings.

Its very possible the reason these items are falling to same person could be in order for the item to become available to drop you need to have a target:

DPS - your damage per second needs to be above X limit for item to become available to drop
Kill Rate - you have to be killing mobs at a fast enough rate for item to become available to drop
Number of Kills - you have to have killed an X number of mobs item to become available to drop
Length of Hunt - you have to have hunted on that mob more then X amount of minutes / hours item to become available to drop

If one or all of these factors applies then it answers alot of things, alot of people might can not match these criteria.
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Not to forget time in game, Linzey has been uber since uber has been.
 
foudil said:
--> statistically it's basically impossible for this to happen
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If you sort items based on lvl of mob and drops.
Takes account all the items looted last year.
Would end up atleast over 100 items.

Game is designed for people too hunt and loot items at their current lvl they are hunting.
Surely there are more then 100 items looted but I use it too show you statistically its nowhere near impossible.

Lindzy 5items /100items
Lindz 360 day turnover not count team 1,2milion peds
Weekly turnover from entropia life 2 million peds (prolly amped by ark event)
1,2/102 =1.17% of loot.
5 items / 1,17 of total turnover = 4,27.
So Hes running over expected but 1/4,27 is not like winning the lottery odds.
Looted 4 times as many item in a year then deservered but still too low odds too deem unlikely. Anyone Who played more then 1 hour of online poker knows that even if your opponent is down too 1(1/51) card to help him win, it happen more often then you think.

If you look at warrior extreminators and the evis/mulciber where 3 of the items came from.
You ll notice there are only 3 players really hunting those. So being lucky 2 times more then expected vs only 2 other guys is even plausible.
 
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BUT the point is - right time, right place and right mob - how do you calculate for that?
 
Your free too check his entropialife tracker and you can see he isnt a cool guy, normaly the same 3-4 mobs in rotations.
If you have best gear, high HP and use fapper most of times there just are not that many mob too hunt or make it worth the paying for service.
 
I wonder where the statement from MA is were they confirmed a change in Mentor Loot rewards. It was changed to "Stages". Certain amounts graduates unlocks a chance to loot better items. And the stages continue and better equipment unlocks. Doesn't mean u will loot it, but if only a handful of Avas get to the "Top stage". Chance of u looting it will be quite high.

Linzey ate the hulk for breakfast and merged with it's DNA. Crazy buffed up Ava with crazy gear. So ofc she will reach the top fast :D
 
KullXP said:
There is one other possibility that I have been thinking.

The Item's might have a criteria that has to be met in order to loot, like rings.

Its very possible the reason these items are falling to same person could be in order for the item to become available to drop you need to have a target:

DPS - your damage per second needs to be above X limit for item to become available to drop
Kill Rate - you have to be killing mobs at a fast enough rate for item to become available to drop
Number of Kills - you have to have killed an X number of mobs item to become available to drop
Length of Hunt - you have to have hunted on that mob more then X amount of minutes / hours item to become available to drop

If one or all of these factors applies then it answers alot of things, alot of people might can not match these criteria.
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See, now someone is thinking. Well done sir!
 
foudil said:
--> statistically it's basically impossible for this to happen

MA need to investigate who talk too much in office.
We all waiting the result.
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What, getting info during coffe break ? It's actually one of easiest and most plausible explanations.
We have lot of proofs that special items are manually added into loot (since SGA, especialy loot waves etc. and MA statements ) that mean someone is aware at least where they are put in.
 
e-lite said:
Yes, EU might not be classified directly as a "casino" even if Mindark is affiliated with at least 2 casino company's. Even so, MA is still under the limitation of Swedish product and/or gambling laws and may at any time be subject to an investigation. Therefor it is highly unlikely that MA would risk the future of the company by rigging loot. There's just no such thing.
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Please note that I did not write (or mean) that EU is rigged, rather that it is not formally supervised and therefore the only guarantee for correctness comes from MA themselves. There are no independent third parties providing any implied or explicit guarantee of fairness, which is exactly what a government agency is about.

Take care,
BBB
 
shoti said:
What, getting info during coffe break ? It's actually one of easiest and most plausible explanations.
We have lot of proofs that special items are manually added into loot (since SGA, especialy loot waves etc. and MA statements ) that mean someone is aware at least where they are put in.
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Yea someone would surely risk their employment and future carieer for measly spilts with Linzey on a 4k dollar item.
Keep in mind MindArk work from sweden, that aint even close too half of a programmer wage here.
 
carle said:
Yea someone would surely risk their employment and future carieer for measly spilts with Linzey on a 4k dollar item.
Keep in mind MindArk work from sweden, that aint even close too half of a programmer wage here.
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There is no easy way to prove that to emplyee unless u spy thme full time. Also sometimes ppl are stupid or careless. So no risk here. All i am saying is based on pure probablity and simple what event is easier to happen. Incredible luck or typical human behavior seen thousand of times in a past when some valuable info was involved.

You may belive strange coincidences if you want.
 
Common guys. Don't you have anything better to do? Get back ingame. Start shooting mobs and increase your chances of looting a special item.

The only thing that's for sure. You will not loot anything in this forum!:wise:
 
Gz Linzey, nice gun!

Seriously guys, what's with all the hate? If MA were doing this then why would they have created rare item/discovery hofs for everyone to see it? It's not in their interests to create this feeling, Linzey is having a great year but he sure as hell works hard for it. Yeah there are others who play as much and haven't been lucky but I'm sure their turn will come and the list of players at this level is very very very small.

Show some love, imagine you were having a great year, feeling happy about it and then the whole community tries to dump on you.

cc
 
cc. said:
the list of players at this level is very very very small.
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I have to agreed with what you wrote cc. The problem with saying this isn't possible, statistically, is that there are no other players who are hunting level 100+ mobs every single day. Star hunts at a similar level, but less frequently. And, in the past, we don't know what the top players looted - to compare - because the rare hof list didn't exists and uber players rarely posted their loots.

I can see why some players are suspicious, but people seem to be talking like it's 100% certain there is a conspiracy when there is very little in the way of hard evidence. There is also talk about how WSS get everything they ask for, but just from reading this forum, most of what they suggested has been ignored by MA: return radar to pvp4, didn't happen, put toxic shot for oil rig, didn't happen, and when moe complain with thread about miss shots be counted again in pvp it got ignored. Just a few things I can think of, I am sure there are more.
 
I do wonder, if linzay wasn't with WSS would we have seen this conspiracy theory at all?

gz Linzay
 
Mercury said:
You can say I'm bitter or crying about it, but I don't think you can argue with the fact that I've had the most globals combined in all events in the past 3 years. Sure, I wasn't top globals or DPS in a few where the terminator participated. How is it that with 294 globals during the Robot Mayhem and 205 for the next best (Stryker), I managed to be 2nd behind him? No one else was even close. How is it that during this Halloween Mayhem, I had like 33-50% more globals than anyone and placed 7th? How is it that during the Christmas Mayhem event for the past 2 years, the three people with the 25% bonus for araneatrox just happened to be the 3 people surrounding me in average points per hour? (EMW - didn't finish his 40 hours somehow, Nadie - beat me by 18 points, and Linzey - got 2nd place). How is it that the year before, my highest run was 142 points and I did 51 runs with none less than 120 points and only 3 at 120-125 and still got an average of 123.xx points due to some sort of extra hour added to my score when calculating? (Thus putting hulk above me in the scoreboard and MA didn't sort it out via support after because prizes were handed out)
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Not whingeing but some good comments made - once again all left to hang.
 
The Jetman said:
I do wonder, if linzay wasn't with WSS would we have seen this conspiracy theory at all?

gz Linzay
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It would be someone else. Doesn't help that people who are actually more successful than Linzey are actually here on this thread flaming the fire.

It's a thing these days. 1% attitude... haves/have nots... finding conspiracies to explain what is happening even though there are no credible evidence to support such nonsense.
 
I would be very tempted to agree the "friend that give some good advices" but that dosnt explain the fact he won halloween mayhem 3 time in 3 years. Which is supposed to be luck based. We explained it last years becoz he hadbest dps with terminator, but the fact he won that year again with a way lower dps (cdf800t9) means 5k pumpkins manually added in his loot. So his friend is very probably balancing managerbor someone that have access to loot distribution server.
 
krogfan said:
They are drawing paintings with words, not talking statistics :)

Its ok I will keep shooting and hopefully while they are busy talking here and being sad I can shoot a mob or two and loot something :D
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The only person that would say they need to "shoot a mob or two" to loot something good is a person that knew exactly when to shoot that mob.
 
e-lite said:
Yes, EU might not be classified directly as a "casino" even if Mindark is affiliated with at least 2 casino company's. Even so, MA is still under the limitation of Swedish product and/or gambling laws and may at any time be subject to an investigation. Therefor it is highly unlikely that MA would risk the future of the company by rigging loot. There's just no such thing.
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This is speculation at best.

MindArk might not be rigging loot to the degree that some tinfoil hatters claim, but it is entirely possible that they baked in special exceptions in their formula to encourage new players to deposit.

When it comes to a virtual economy is a virtual game, do you really think it's that hard to find a loophole in virtual loot formula regulation? I doubt the legal restrictions are that significant in a unique case such as EU. I'm sure MindArk has consulted attorneys and calculated the risk. We can only speculate on where this led them.

Unless you're saying the Swedish government regularly performs random no-knock raids on source code, it sounds like you are highly over-speculating the risk here.
 
Sunsout Gunsout said:
The only person that would say they need to "shoot a mob or two" to loot something good is a person that knew exactly when to shoot that mob.
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Well at least he's out shooting and doesn't waste his time in here commenting every stupid loot theories presented in this thread.

Gratz to Linzey for his latest item :yay:
 
foudil said:
--> statistically it's basically impossible for this to happen
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Ah, I see this time it's Lindzey's turn to be publicly burned at the stake. :laugh:

"Chosen Avatars"? Anyone remember when Pham hit two ATHs in a single day? Or Dub's ruga tower of ultimate profit? Or how SuggaBABE looted a mod merc right after complaining on forum that she was gonna quit?

I've seen a lot of players proclaimed as "chosen" over the years, only to watch them never do as well again. In fact, I made a thread called Memorable Loot, chronicling cases like Stormer SIX ATH's :jawdrop: It's amazing how often those fantastic loots came with a huge amount of bitching, calls of "insider cheating" etc.

But when you read the list over the years, you find a bunch of random names. Some hit well multiple times. Others are/were one-hit wonders.

Here's a thought: Why "choose" avatars to win, when it's more simple to let it happen randomly, and some are just beating the odds, if only by a bit?

Gratz to those who hit good loot. :)

(The best part? Most of you didn't even have to play that vid to know what it says. :laugh:)
 
HarryBondHole said:
Well at least he's out shooting ON CALYPSO and doesn't waste his time in here commenting every stupid loot theories presented in this thread.

Gratz to Linzey for his latest item :yay:
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+rep :):wtg::wtg:
 
There is no 'choosen' avatars

But there is a manual control. Picture from MindArk official site below:

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He will change your happiness, hold exactly 18 seconds and then will return it back. We call these periods 'a lootius visit' ;)
 
I haven't logged into game for a while now because I was afraid of looting something big or an item then there would be a big commotion. Seems to me I made the right decision...

Plus I have other reasons!
 
JohnCapital said:


In fact, I made a thread called Memorable Loot, chronicling cases like Stormer SIX ATH's :jawdrop: It's amazing how often those fantastic loots came with a huge amount of bitching, calls of "insider cheating" etc.
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I read most of those threads - it was great to see Mudkicker complaining about cheaters together with the notorious Hunterz - I wonder if there later exploits came about because they felt that MA didn't care and wouldn't act?
 
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