Gradual Reduction in MF Effectiveness

[JustAGuy]

Ah, Hunky, good call. I have indeed played games in which uniques seem to fall from the sky, and others where nothing but blue and yellow come up. I agree that it would probably not be in Blizzard's best interest to have extra programs running that eat up for valuable server CPU time or disk space.

Sounds like games are seeded with some kind of number that is used as a base for MF calculations. If Blizzard added this sort of thing, and made it relative to the time between when you last made or joined a game, this would effectively reduce drop quality for those who keep at it. It could possibly be a time-stamp subtraction thing, very quick, very easy, very effective.

Since Jarulf can apparently read unlabelled assembler code (I can barely WRITE it!), perhaps he knows if there is any seeding happening at the start of a game?

As for reading a book on statistics... Good lord, no! I'll stick with my paranoid delusions and conspiracy theories, thanks. :)

EDIT: That wasn't the submit post button....