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<b>Message ID:</b> 13685 <br/>
<b>Date:</b> Tue Jan 25 21:29:25 GMT 2000 <br/>
<b>Author:</b> Kimes, Dean W. <br/>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Deepwater Gobs <br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1107962791">Just a brief word on statistics.  If you want to get a reasonably good<br/>
approximation of what % something drops, you need a number of tests one<br/>
order of magnitude higher than the range.  So if its 5% you need at least<br/>
200 tests for statistical accuracy.  This isn&#39;t necessarily true for all<br/>
randoms, but for psuedo-random numbers such as computers produce, it is<br/>
generally the applicable rule.<br/>
<br/>
	Kit<br/>
<br/>
-----Original Message-----<br/>
From: Ryan Honeyman [mailto:<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:honeyman@...">honeyman@...</a>]<br/>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 2:25 PM<br/>
To: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:eqbards@onelist.com">eqbards@onelist.com</a><br/>
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Deepwater Gobs<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
From: Ryan Honeyman &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:honeyman@...">honeyman@...</a>&gt;<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; <br/>
&gt; I would have to agree with the previous poster that in Oasis, we were<br/>
 </span></blockquote>seeing<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; about 1 helm every 5 gobs or so... Maybe the drop rate is MUCH lower in<br/>
&gt; Rathe?<br/>
&gt; <br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>  No, thats not it.  The monster table that Verant uses says<br/>
  that a DW goblin will drop a helm X % of the time.  Because you<br/>
  happened to get a helm 1 out of 5, doesnt mean the next time a<br/>
  helm did drop it wouldn&#39;t have come maybe on the 20th one?  I got<br/>
  my helm on the first DW goblin I killed.  It took me well over<br/>
  20 griffennes to get a charm the first time.  The second time I got it<br/>
  on the third try.  It&#39;s the way statistics work.<br/>
<br/>
  Harmonic.<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
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