Gradual Reduction in MF Effectiveness

[Ruvanal]

Unless we get some durability information. Then we can be certain (whichever way).

Any runs like this that I have done in the past has always resulted in magic items that have durabilty, showing with the x2 daraability that indicates that they were failed set items. I have never experienced anything that would suggest there is some 'hidden' manipulation of the MF% that is being used. As I noted in an earlier post, such manipulation would have tendency to show itself in some, shall we say unusual drops that would be rather noticable. Since there have been no reports (or complaints) that match the type of pattern that this would cause, I feel that there is no such system in place.

The types of drops that JustAGuy and MEAT are trying to make a case of do not fit this type of pattern at all, but they do fit just the natural type of random distribution that should expect in this type of random item generation. If no one were to see this type of drop patten occuring at times, that would actually be indicative of a different sort of problem with how the items are being generated. A random system of this nature that does not exhibit certain types of 'streakiness' and psuedo cyclic patterns would not in fact be a real random system. This is an aspect of random systems that many have a geat problem in understanding and coming to grips with, they tend to expect that the result will look rather 'flat' and 'uniform' at any level of examination. With a diverse system like the item dros in this game, any smapling of less than around 3000 to 5000 items from a similar item source (i.e. drops that use the same TC and ilvl) will tend to display many sorts of 'patterns' that are really just the natural consequence of teh way a random system will look when examined in to close of a detail.