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End Of A Myth
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:20 pm
by [SD]Master_Wong
Ok for a long time this has annoyed me and im going to put a stop to it
SoX Drops are TOTALLY random therefore killing Uruechi, Tiger Girl or any Unique for that matter will not give a better chance its random
Who ever said uniques drop sos more is an idiot, iv been playing this game long enough to know
SoX = Random you stand as much chance getting sos off a level 40 red scorpian as you do uruechi
i hope this clears a lot up
Re: End Of A Myth
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:24 pm
by Innovacious
Master_wong wrote:Ok for a long time this has annoyed me and im going to put a stop to it
SoX Drops are TOTALLY random therefore killing Uruechi, Tiger Girl or any Unique for that matter will not give a better chance its random
Who ever said uniques drop sos more is an idiot, iv been playing this game long enough to know
SoX = Random you stand as much chance getting sos off a level 40 red scorpian as you do uruechi
i hope this clears a lot up
i was thinking about making a thread like this to tell people to stop making threads about how to find sos, looks like you beat me too it

Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:25 pm
by [SD]Master_Wong
oh its not about how to find them its about the farking myth about uniques dropping sos thats annoying me
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:32 pm
by Z0mbs
The only strategy I can understand for getting better drops is programming. Random isn't always random, so it will be based on time to compensate for that, which means that there may be certain hot spots during the day where a kill could equal a drop. For example, if you got a SoX drop at 8:45:09.2PM one day, the next day your chances would increase if you got a kill at the exact same time, and if you waited exactly seven days from your first kill that would increase your chances even further. Of course, this is just another myth, which is probably the most likely because of some programming limitations, I hope no one tries this and wastes their time.
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:33 pm
by [SD]Master_Wong
in programming nothing is totally random but the pattern is so hard to find it appears random to us so lets just keep it at random
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:39 pm
by voltis5
most.....if not all of my SOX drops are from orange - green mobs. never really had a chance to kill a Unique myslef

Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:02 pm
by francomade
People with common sense will know this.

Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:11 pm
by Quyxz
ok Wong, it's clear now!

Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:13 pm
by PsYch008
my sos drops arent random, SRO gods just like me and give me my sos drops.
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:19 pm
by jabbers
well the most boxes you can get from a regular mob is probably one. Uniques your level usually drop up to 4-5 boxes and thats almost guaranteed. So even though the chance of soX is still like .0000001% thats 4-5 times you roll those odds compared to one if that from a regular mob. This doesn't apply if your 20+ lvls higher than the unique either since they wont drop u shit
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:23 pm
by [SD]Master_Wong
uniques have less chance if you think about it
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:33 pm
by Sharp324
maybe the equation for drops will get leaked =P lol
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:38 pm
by lynxz
Never seen a unique drop an SoX item, that's all I'll say. All of my SoX's have been from orange mobs.
Re: End Of A Myth
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:35 pm
by Vandango
Master_wong wrote:
SoX = Random you stand as much chance getting sos off a level 40 red scorpian as you do uruechi
yes and u be glad to see its repair invalid LOL
Re: End Of A Myth
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:55 pm
by [SD]Master_Wong
Karlos Vandango wrote:Master_wong wrote:
SoX = Random you stand as much chance getting sos off a level 40 red scorpian as you do uruechi
yes and u be glad to see its repair invalid LOL
we dont get invalid repair sos yet
Re: End Of A Myth
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:57 pm
by lynxz
Master_wong wrote:Karlos Vandango wrote:Master_wong wrote:
SoX = Random you stand as much chance getting sos off a level 40 red scorpian as you do uruechi
yes and u be glad to see its repair invalid LOL
we dont get invalid repair sos yet
pretty sure he was refering to invalid repair items in general. Invalid repair sox doesn't exist.
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:00 pm
by Crumpets
lynxz wrote:Never seen a unique drop an SoX item, that's all I'll say. All of my SoX's have been from orange mobs.
Was a screenshot of isy dropping sos 64 garm hands few motnhs back on these forums.
Uniques do have a higher chance of dropping sos. Think of it this way:
You kill 100,000 monsters and get 1 sos, I can assure you uniques have a better sos drop rate than 1 / 100,000. The reason they don't ' drop ' as many is they aren't their for you to attack 24/7 wich in turn lowers the averages.
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:07 pm
by [SD]Master_Wong
Plus44 wrote:lynxz wrote:Never seen a unique drop an SoX item, that's all I'll say. All of my SoX's have been from orange mobs.
Was a screenshot of isy dropping sos 64 garm hands few motnhs back on these forums.
Uniques do have a higher chance of dropping sos. Think of it this way:
You kill 100,000 monsters and get 1 sos, I can assure you uniques have a better sos drop rate than 1 / 100,000. The reason they don't ' drop ' as many is they aren't their for you to attack 24/7 wich in turn lowers the averages.
then uniques about 5/24hours
normal mobs 24/7 uniques do not have a better chance lower if anythingy
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:10 pm
by Crumpets
Master_wong wrote:
then uniques about 5/24hours
normal mobs 24/7 uniques do not have a better chance lower if anythingy
In theory....
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:11 pm
by PsYch008
you are lying, every time i kill TG i get 10 sox items. last time i got a sosun 64 blade and shield dropped at +5. then i +9 them both first try with no astral....
not only do uniques drop only sox items, they drop with 100% chance to go to +9 first try with no astrals! its pretty cool if you ask me.
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:12 pm
by [SD]Master_Wong
most what people say is theory but i know 100% uniques have an equal chance of dropping sos to say a giant the same level
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:13 pm
by canakin
i have got 5 sos drops so far 2 from green mobs and 3 from white mobs and my friend got a 36 sos tasset or something from black robber archer when he was 6x so i know blues drops sos as well..
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:15 pm
by satman83
I got 3 sos from lv30+ mobs and my first and only som from a pinon
(yea i cant spell

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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:25 pm
by DarkJackal
You cant really know 100% just from playing a long time >.>, I would think it should be higher, even if its not noticable, but still other then exp whats the point of uniques lol, normal mobs might have like 0.001% chance(for exmalpe >.>) then a unique could have 0.005% its still higher but the chance for seal items is so low to begin with its not much of a diff, also the fact uniques drop like 20 items at a time >.>, each possibly could be an sox, so that makes it higher too ;p.
I bet it seems to everyone like normal mobs drop more since we kill countless of them and get the items, and kill very few uniques and get nothing, but when you barely get the chance to kill uniques and you do actually kill alot(alot as in 20+ or so?) and still get nothing it seems you have been screwed lol. But the fact they only spawn once every few hours kinda makes it alot lower lol.
But I dunno anything 100%, it just seems like it would make alot more sense to make the boss mobs have higher drop rates.
Point is for normal mobs you can kill like 1,000(thats lower then what it would really be too i'm sure

) and get 1 sos, if that.
So even if the rate was doubled for uniques, you could get 1 sos for 500 uniques, and and like I said, you barely get the chance to kil uniques so you definatly arent gonna kill enough to be able to determine if its higher or not.
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:29 pm
by Crumpets
Exactly what I meant DJ. props
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 7:04 pm
by skyduck
and i found that giants do not necessarily have a better chance of drops, too. XD
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:10 pm
by [SD]Master_Wong
i know i recon all mobs have equal chance and it also depends on colour i got 4 sos from green mobs
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:35 pm
by crazy_foo
hehe ya I know

Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:45 pm
by DarkLaw
From my experince without acctually seeing the coding used any mob can drop SoX items within thier item range. if its coded as i would expect Zombs is pretty close, randomize comands are based upon time i.e say when a monster dies a number is picked at random if that number = 1 then drop sostar, after a certain amount of time the number 1 will turn up as all numbers at sometime will but when it will within the amout of times x monsters are killed. (x being the amout of time to go through all the possible numbers that cant be picked) so the only really way to get sos items is to play alot and hope. if that makes no sense or is completely wrong i aplogise, sleepy tbh
