12-30-2008, 02:19 AM
Quote:I noticed a mistake with the calculator which, I think, would make it take a little longer. The calculator gives the same value for an emerald bastard sword of slaying and an emerald short sword of slaying. However, after the game decides to drop a bastard sword from a unique boss there is a 16% chance of the item being unique; there is no unique short sword. Thus, the chance of magical short sword drop should be higher than a magical (non-unique) bastard sword. Either, the calculator always counts the 16%, even when there is no unique, thus underestimating the probability in the case of the short sword, or it never does, thus overestimating the probability in the case of the bastard sword. Langolier? I´m willing to try 2,840,000 games, but 3,400,000 is just too much.
Interesting observation. For unique monsters, it always assumes the chance for a unique item is 16%, I never thought to check that there was actually a unique for that base item type as I figured they all were covered. I'll have to work on that.