FOD Findings from Switchblade

Discussion in 'Strategy' started by *old-SwitchBlade- (01), May 5, 2012.

  1. I like our copy cats 
     
  2. For all you FOD noobs, once and for all the secret of the last 3%: The sweetspot is always at red bar: 4500, 3750, 3000, 2250, 1500 or 750. Take it to those points and test it!
     
  3. Yeah, but by action numbers, that means your actions as a ratio of the total number of actions performed by your clan (ie. each action equals one entry into the draw). The chance for a drop is probably separate. For example, a random number is generated between 1-100.

    1-20 equals no sword
    21-80 equals 1 sword
    81-95 equals 2 swords
    96-99 equals 3 swords
    100 equals 4 swords

    This seems to make the most sense from a programming perspective.

    It is difficult to draw any conclusions unless the sample size of your data is large enough and considering how long it takes to do one FOD, a large enough sample size (at least a hundred, i would think) is hard to come by.
     
  4. Ok well here is my theory on what happens:

    When the EB is started by an admin a script is run which takes the timestamp (an ever changing variable) and puts it through a formulae (unsure of the math) to generate a number. This number correlates to the number of drops there are.

    This number is then put into a loop and another formulae is run this generates a number which would correlate to an action number in the Epic Battle. This means whoever hits that action number wins that drop. The drop would be determined by the decimals. I think x.0 - x.4 is the sword x.41 -x.99 is treasure.

    This theory fits with what the devs say about drops, (the more active you are the better your chances) and also explains how someone hitting 45 actions can still win a sword.

    It is obviously much more complicated than I just made out, but certainly I feel this is in essence what's going on.
     
  5. FOD #200 still no sword! Lol
     
  6. Bump for the mad scientist! Keep testing those hypothesis man!!
     
  7. Finally got my sword - thx!!
    Nice job SB.... A toast to you 
    Then very next run ( in another clan ) got my shield.

    Did every combo I could think of and nothing seemed to work. So I bitched out the devs in cc and walla!!! A sword!!! Seriously doubt that helped but.....
     
  8. Man, im a slow grower. I could be testin with you but noooo, i have to be a slow builder. :/;