02-18-2004, 04:30 PM
Well as long as we're speculating on the realm server code, how about a different angle? Let's say you were the developer, how would you rewrite the server to give more rewards (better drops) to 'legit' players and fewer rewards to the 'non legit'?
Well, everyone knows the non legit players are using bots to make runs on certain bosses over and over. Legit players trying to level are more likely to be clearing out entire maps at a time. Seems to me, non legit players are killing just a few monsters per map and legit players are killing all or nearly all per map. So all you have to do is either A) pregen a fixed number of rares/uniques and spread them across the map or B) keep track of how many rare/unique drops have been made on each map, so you can dynamically adjust the drop percentage so that as more and more monsters have been killed without a good drop, the chance for a good drop increases.
My guess is, the second method sounds harder, but is probably easier to implement, because you do still want to take the players MF into account.
Oh, and if you are a legit player but all you do are runs? Sorry! You lose out as well. You were supposed to be playing the game anyways. No one considers 100's of mind numbing runs playing. Sheesh!
Realistically though? I think it's all just random and the server works exactly like the single player clilent. It's just the nature of Gambler's Falacy that makes people go crazy trying to come to grips with it, and hence, make up all these amazing superstitions. The developers at Blizzard have been laughing at them all for years.
Cheers!
Well, everyone knows the non legit players are using bots to make runs on certain bosses over and over. Legit players trying to level are more likely to be clearing out entire maps at a time. Seems to me, non legit players are killing just a few monsters per map and legit players are killing all or nearly all per map. So all you have to do is either A) pregen a fixed number of rares/uniques and spread them across the map or B) keep track of how many rare/unique drops have been made on each map, so you can dynamically adjust the drop percentage so that as more and more monsters have been killed without a good drop, the chance for a good drop increases.
My guess is, the second method sounds harder, but is probably easier to implement, because you do still want to take the players MF into account.
Oh, and if you are a legit player but all you do are runs? Sorry! You lose out as well. You were supposed to be playing the game anyways. No one considers 100's of mind numbing runs playing. Sheesh!
Realistically though? I think it's all just random and the server works exactly like the single player clilent. It's just the nature of Gambler's Falacy that makes people go crazy trying to come to grips with it, and hence, make up all these amazing superstitions. The developers at Blizzard have been laughing at them all for years.
Cheers!