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Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:04 pm
by Kraq
Me and my friends were arguing if there was a such thing as Silkroad luck.
Reading many posts here on SRF I believe there is a generated luck when you create your character or when you pick up a weapon.
My friends think that is complete nonsense.
Example: A char getting ton of SoX during the "lifetime" of the char,
A weapon not being able to get to +3
So, do you guys believe there are Lucky/Unlucky Chars and Lucky/Unlucky Weapons?
Discuss :]
Re: Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:08 pm
by asusi
your friends are
right it's nonsense
The luck system is completely randomized
Re: Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:13 pm
by CeLL
asusi wrote:your friends are
right it's nonsense
The luck system is completely randomized
...how does what you are saying sound any different than what he is saying???
Re: Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:18 pm
by asusi
CeLL wrote:asusi wrote:your friends are
right it's nonsense
The luck system is completely randomized
...how does what you are saying sound any different than what he is saying???
problems with carefully reading and understanding in English?..
Re: Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:20 pm
by RipCurl
I feel like some chars are luckier than others. I once had one that I made two +5 swords with, and nowadays it seems I can't even make +3
but most likely it's totally ranom
Re: Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:28 pm
by Swindler
Yeah sometimes feels it like the chars have different lucky %.
I've never found any sox on a str char, but on INT chars i have.
Re: Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 11:19 pm
by Doomie
Yeah i think there are aalot of unlucky gear and weapons
on ECSRO i had lvl 82 boots i could not +3 them i spent 50m trying to +3
And i brought another pair of boots and +5'd them in 5 elixirs
My point said.
Re: Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:11 am
by Rip Tide
I think everyone has their own personal GM waiting and watching everything you do, they decide if you can succeed in alchemy, they decide if you'll die, they decide if you lag out, they decide all the damage you do and they decide if you crit and block.
Yes, we're all watched.......
But on a more sane and serious note, I think there is more to the whole luck thing but on "standard" everyone is the same.
Re: Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 6:22 pm
by Smi!ezZ
Hmm... I think some characters are more lucky than others.
For instance, I can +5 anything on my main character, but on my stall character i have a hard time +3'ing anything.
OH WAIT! My main character has Premium PLUS.
Re: Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 7:11 pm
by Nyx
The implementation of premiums proved that there is luck in this game. The fact that you get a luck increase proved that there is luck.
Re: Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:13 pm
by Phaidra
Luck with characters, no.
But every weapon you pick up has a % of luck for alchemy.
Re: Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:40 pm
by Kraq
Phaidra wrote:Luck with characters, no.
But every weapon you pick up has a % of luck for alchemy.
So you think it's just coincedence that some chars get SoX like its a gold drop and some chars think its a "Once in a lifetime opportunity" to get a SoX?
Re: Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:44 pm
by Phaidra
Kraq wrote:Phaidra wrote:Luck with characters, no.
But every weapon you pick up has a % of luck for alchemy.
So you think it's just coincedence that some chars get SoX like its a gold drop and some chars think its a "Once in a lifetime opportunity" to get a SoX?
Most of those people have had low level SoX drops which really are not that rare. Every item picked has a % of luck though. I got 3 SoX at low levels on my character and nothing at high levels, with every degree the chances slim. SoX are rare for a reason, if they weren't we'd all drop one.
Re: Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 9:51 pm
by CeLL
asusi wrote:CeLL wrote:asusi wrote:your friends are
right it's nonsense
The luck system is completely randomized
...how does what you are saying sound any different than what he is saying???
problems with carefully reading and understanding in English?..
Realising that what you said and what he said is exactly the same, and avoiding answering my question by responding with another question????
Re: Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 10:19 pm
by Champ
it's randomized but also a bit luck, you need to have..
Re: Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 10:27 pm
by UniQ
my friend made a lvl76+5 sword and also a +5 shield, so i taught he might be lucky and i handed my sword over to him, he couldnt even get it to +3:( so i think its not the luck of a character, but the luck of the item^^
Re: Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 1:50 am
by erkakbe
UniQ wrote:my friend made a lvl76+5 sword and also a +5 shield, so i taught he might be lucky and i handed my sword over to him, he couldnt even get it to +3:( so i think its not the luck of a character, but the luck of the item^^
Re: Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 5:29 am
by ImmortalKiller
Well, my speculation is that there are no lucky or unlucky items or people.
I think the standard deviation of the probability of success just increases as you get a higher +. That's why people think "OMG +7 LUCKY WEP"... when an individual observation says NOTHING about the "population". (Population meaning the true formula used to calculate success of enhancement.)
Re: Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 8:07 am
by Phaidra
ImmortalKiller wrote:Well, my speculation is that there are no lucky or unlucky items or people.
I think the standard deviation of the probability of success just increases as you get a higher +. That's why people think "OMG +7 LUCKY WEP"... when an individual observation says NOTHING about the "population". (Population meaning the true formula used to calculate success of enhancement.)
I forget where It's written maybe in the help but it says blatantly every Weapon/Armor has a % of luck for alchemy.
Re: Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 8:22 am
by PocketSunshine
I believe in lucky/unlucky items. I've had some weapons that would not go to +3, so I'd resell it and buy a new one... The new one would go to +7 in 7 elixirs. I think they even stated somewhere in the game that all items have a set amount of luck.
Although there have been times when I had trouble getting something to +3/4 and my friend would get it to +5 in one try. xD
Edit:
Found it. Just press H for Help and look under alchemy.
Re: Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 8:31 am
by SwordCloud
Kraq wrote:Me and my friends were arguing if there was a such thing as Silkroad luck.
Reading many posts here on SRF I believe there is a generated luck when you create your character or when you pick up a weapon.
My friends think that is complete nonsense.
Example: A char getting ton of SoX during the "lifetime" of the char,
A weapon not being able to get to +3
So, do you guys believe there are Lucky/Unlucky Chars and Lucky/Unlucky Weapons?
Discuss :]
Each item have his own luck,if you don't trust me joymax himself wrote it on
"help"(you just need to look in game,press H and find it).
EDIT:ahhh don't saw the post before..-.-
Re: Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 8:38 am
by tedtwilliger
Item luck has been proven as per the help section.
As far as character luck? I don't believe in it. Some people get many sox's and some people gewt none. It's a game of simple chance. Each mob in my opinion has a fixed probability of dropping an item. Some people simply get more than others, the individual gets lucky on a basis of pure chance. It has nothing to do with individual character luck.
Re: Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:58 am
by Questmaster
I would rather view it as: They get lucky all the time in the sense that, when it happens that an SOx is randomized to be dropped, they happen to be the one around..
Re: Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:29 am
by streetrobban
I think its pure random.
Re: Silkroad Luck?
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:33 am
by salmissra
i've felt liek that...
my main character is unlucky..barely got my set to +3 and never found any sox
on the other hand..i once made a noob char..got him to lvl 12..and found about 10 sox items..in 2 days..it was ridiculous..they were all robes/armors tho