Thread:BehindTheEight/@comment-26365873-20150802092302/@comment-6969786-20150803225958

Raze231 wrote: Now let me give u the logic behind this statement.

Saying that each tech component and e-titan have a 25% chance to drop is not possible. there are 6 non-medals related prizes(excluding the uniques as they have a negligible chance) so if EACH of them have 25 % chance to drop as u have written in the wiki then the total chances of getting a non-medal related prize alone becomes 150% which is mathematically impossible. Dickseye never said that the E-titan alone has 25% chance to drop, it said all titan related prizes have a 25% chance, in other words your chances of getting ANY non-medal related prize is 25%. It does not mean that EACH prize has 25% chance to win. becuz then it would become impossible to write the program code as it would give a runtime error on execution. so simply put all the titan related prizes INDIVIDUALLY have a 4.1666..% chance of dropping! 25% seems too much anyway! dickseye aint that kind! oh and as for those uniques, it will be 0.333...% chance FOR EACH unit, not 1%. 1% is the cumulative chance of getting any non-medal/non-titan related prize! Your mixing two separate code functions.

1st Function is to generate RND number between 1 - 100 .... If the number is ....
 * 1 thru 74 - then medals are paid out. - End of all Function
 * 75 thru 99 - then one of the Titan Prizes is paid out --- Go to 2nd Function
 * 100 - then one of the X units is paid out--- Go to 2nd Function

2nd Function is to determine which prize of the appropriate group to award. This is a separate random draw that has no statistical effect on the first function. The published percentages are just telling you about your chances to get something from 1 of the three groups.

Now if this functions as the prize draw from the Hell Hounds 45's then the second set of odds that determine which of the group you get will change based off of what units or tech you might already have.

If you hit the 1% X unit category and you do not have one of the 3 already then you on the second draw will have a 33% chance for each. If you have 1 of them already then the odds between the remaining are 50/50. If you have 2 then obvioulsy its a 100% you get the last remaining one. If you have all 3 then if defaults back to paying out medals.

I suspect it is the same for the titan & titan tech because I have not seen or herd of someone getting the same tech more then once. ( although I get the eTitan when I already had it but this might be because the programer forgot to check this in the code - It happens when you start alterering existing code for new tasks. )

No matter how the second function is programed to work it does not change the odds of the first function.