I am doing 2-4 adventures a day and in the last 2 weeks or so I have maybe had 2 possibly 3 adventures return granite as a reward. Getting alot of the same complaints from the rest of my guild and granite seems much less available in TO.
To add insult to injury, winning too much saltpeter.
They make the percentage of gettin granite from an adventure a really low percent, therefore making it a very rare resource. So you probably wont get it too often when adventuring.. or at least I dont
what adventures are you doing? BK has a 1 in 3 chance of dropping granite, logs, or saltpetre, yet i know tht adv is popular.
here is a collection of the loot tables. i personally like traitors using sanii's guide, i actually get granite on it pretty often
http://forum.thesettlersonline.net/t...adventure+loot
IoTP would be the only adventure that has the highest possibility of getting granite (50% for ewl and granite) and very low losses if you have Vet and do the blocking. Other adventures like BK may have the higher amount of granite, however, considering that it is a 1 in 3 chance, it could turn out to have fewer chance of getting granite.
I agree that this week it seems that granite has dropped a lot less, I have done almost 6 or 7 and only 1 brought granite comparing to the previous week, I had 10 times in a row getting granite from IoTP and outlaws. My friend, however, did almost 20 or 25 adventures and there is no sign of granite until now.
Thats's what I'm saying. Doing 2-3 IOTP/day+ loot spots in BK RB Nords etc.. and time after time no granite. Sure you have dry runs but this is insane. Why I am wondering if the drop chances have been changed recently/
i personally havent noticed any change, adventures that tend to drop granite for me continue to do so, and adv tht i rarely get granite on continue to be just as stingy as they've always been. actually, my last 2 pirates have given me granite, which is rare for me. went months a while back w pirates never dropin granite for me. now if only it'd drop a ML, i owe a friend a ls lol
I've had it really bad, of the last 21 adventures, i've had 1 granite drop.
For me it's been 1/3 ratio for granite, then 2-3 adventures later it returns again.
It's more about the scouts finding too many Frags lately. I want more adventures !
I have had above average Granite drop rates the past few days, but I know there has to be somebody on the other end of that curve.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sanii
I thank you for your sacrifice.
lmao lesson =D. i, too, salute those who have made the sacfifice for my granite ;)
I too, must add my thanks! I seem to be getting granite at a higher that usual rate the past few weeks. Cheers!
It's a tarp.
I am amused all the time at how people think its the end of the world from such a small sample set. Even 10 pirates in a row with only E-logs still is going to happen quite frequently to a few people in game. Especially with advs like BK where there is a 17% chance of granite.
It truly is just randomness it goes in cycles... i get 2-3 in a row with some, i even remember a stretch of like 5 days without it... it happens!
There should have been upper and lower limits set on trading prices way back. But back then nobody really abused it the way they are doing now.
There is absolutely no reason for this to be allowed.
Team TSO definitively needs to intervene and code the trading to the correct parameters.
Buck
UBI Beta tester since 2003
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I am confused. Trading prices are being abused? Aren't they set by the market? Buyers and sellers set their selling or bid price. Please explain what you mean by abuse.Quote:
Originally Posted by flatbush71
Thank you.
Wimpy, Castle Empire beta tester since July 2011
The game market is not like the real world where you have import, export, subsidy issues and trade regulations that affect price of goods. The price is decided by sellers and buyers as whatever they desire. If you are talking about gem item price, I do agree that it is higher than before, but I think that is just the matter of time. As people accumulate things over time and server becomes older, there will be certainly less need for gems. That will lead to higher gem item price, and there is no way to fix it until people feel motivated to buy more gems again. I personally have not bought any gem recently even though there are quite a lot of gem promotions lately, simply because I do not have much need for gems anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by flatbush71
"Team TSO definitively needs to intervene and code the trading to the correct parameters", this cannot happen because there is never a correct price for an item.
Gem prices rise because the older a server get, the more players buy gems with gold coin rather then using $$. I am not going to support a 272 a month consumption of parrots using $$.
Older players eventually cap out the need for nobles, silos, ect, but they have new needs in drill plans and parrots (3x buffs too, but those are not worth buying with gems).
I was talking about open trades on the board. Gem prices are fine, if anything too cheap.
I just find it amusing that there is so may rules about trading and the outrages trades that are posted daily go on unabated.
ok as a pure free to play player i saved up resources over a full week and used one of my 1 day premium tokens to grind island of the pirates for granite. I did 9 runs in the 24 hours given (could have done 10 but resources dried up). on 2 out of 9 runs i got granite, 1st time 900 granite and the 2nd 700 granite .... that was it, the rest was exotic logs. maybe just a little less than 50% of the time i got the adventure motherly love (got 3 or 4). once i got the 2000 iron deposit. in the 9 runs i got about 13 pumpkins once and another time i got around 35. That was it in 9 runs. got some good steel swords but was greatly disappointed in the less than 50/50 granite :(
I suggest you to do 1000 more IotP. You will see the 50/50 ewl/granite then. It is called probability.Quote:
Originally Posted by bigbutae
During the event I did/swap/and bought around 90 loot spots on BK. Got granite 21 times, rest was almost even with salt, exo and titanium ore. The loot nerf is not yet on life but it is coming :)
Over the event, I was doing serial identical adventures and did not find that the loot tables have changed, including getting a normal amount of granite. With essentially random tables, it is expected that people will have more or less than the average amount of drops at any point.
As for increasing prices, it is expected that prices will continue to go up, as they typically do with the age of the server. This is discussed elsewhere but it comes down to the gold imbalance issue. Very few things in the game remove gold from the game, and is relatively easy to obtain. Granite, on the other hand, can only be obtained from adventures and treasure searches, and is removed from game with use. The same happens with each resource, and will only get worse when more rare resources will need to be consumed as expected, as seen by the rise in titanium price during the halloween event.
After intensive research, it has been discovered that there is a direct correlation between granite drops in adventures and granite prices in trade.
I use explorers and also play IOTP daily.
this helps me keep granite on hand