Gradual Reduction in MF Effectiveness

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Sorry for being inactive in this thread...I haven't had the time to extensively test out our theories. I've made 23 hell Meph runs so far with my FO Sorc. She has about 450-500 MF. So far, a pattern has not emerged.

One note of interest: For three runs in a row I did not find any uniques. On the fourth run, I ran into some trouble finding the stairs down to level three (took me a few minutes instead of the regular 30 or so seconds). I found two uniques that run. I ran into some trouble the next run too and I found two uniques there.

Are all seeds and all initialization stuff set when a game is created? Are there things that are initialized when a monster is actually spawned? Is it possible that delays between the actual spawning of Meph contributes to the fabled MF reduction?

Of course, that was only 2 runs. It was quite possibly just a coincidence...but something worth looking into I guess.