% chance to craft a Masterpiece........

Jimbob

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its supposed to be 2%

since the latest patch it seems to take a hell of a lot more tries to get a 99%, let alone a MP

crafted one of the new piercers today and its taken so far 62 attempts and no Mp yet :/

surely if the chance is 2%, 1 in 50 should be a MP?
 

Mishy

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since patch, made around 4 mps in 50 goes, and last night made 140 shields and no mp. So same old randomness as before it seems.
 

Sissyfoo

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What are the chances with that new crafting tool quest item? Do they increase whilst it is equipped?
 

Elricstormbringer

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Sissyfoo said:
What are the chances with that new crafting tool quest item? Do they increase whilst it is equipped?

No as from what i have read on forums and in a Grab Bag it raises minimum quality by 1% (no 94%) but does not affect MP %age (2% over a long sample). BTW was trinketing the other day and got a 3% MP rate.
 

saks

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somtimes you pop 3 mps in 50 tries sometimes you cant get one i 100 tries.
But average its 2% chance :)
 

Chilly

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as saks says, its absolutely random. i myself once had four!!!!!!!!! consecutive MPs, damn shame they were procs tbh, other times iv had to do 200retries for MP on my tailor, over a big enough sameple it is indeed 2%.

Remember, probabilities mean nothing with individual cases, only populations.
 

TeaSpoon

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I've had crap runs. In a 99% order (where I've made 5 attempts at each armour piece) I've made 3 MP's. Other single orders its taken around 100 goes for 1 MP.
 

judas

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Chilly said:
as saks says, its absolutely random. i myself once had four!!!!!!!!! consecutive MPs, damn shame they were procs tbh, other times iv had to do 200retries for MP on my tailor, over a big enough sameple it is indeed 2%.

Remember, probabilities mean nothing with individual cases, only populations.
computers are never 100%random :<
and thers still a avarage % and for all stull i crafted on all my crafters id say ive done about 1-2%mps maybe.
 

Asq

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130 tries on a great sword. Results: about 7 99's. Guess we've all been here at a certain point in time. Just hoping these do not occur too often.
 

Palantir

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Sissyfoo said:
What are the chances with that new crafting tool quest item? Do they increase whilst it is equipped?


Elricstormbringer said:
No as from what i have read on forums and in a Grab Bag it raises minimum quality by 1% (no 94%) but does not affect MP %age (2% over a long sample).

Could you please tell me the name of this item, or how can you get it?
Thanks.
 

Landor

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Yeap it is totaly random and based on luck...
Most counted retries for MP 169...
Less retries 3MP in 20 tries. (unfortunately they were on trinkets :mad: )
From my expirience though, after a long time with no mp, usually you got more than one mp in a few tries that folllow.
 

Xandax

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Jimbob said:
its supposed to be 2%

since the latest patch it seems to take a hell of a lot more tries to get a 99%, let alone a MP

crafted one of the new piercers today and its taken so far 62 attempts and no Mp yet :/

surely if the chance is 2%, 1 in 50 should be a MP?

What you need to factor in, is that each item you make has an independant percetange chance of every other. Like rolling a dice for instance.
What you rolled in one throw has no effect on what you roll in the next throw - the same with crafting. Each item has a 1/50 chance of becomming a MP, the next item - regardless if the former was MP or not (or any other quality) - also have 1/50 chance.
So with a bad streak of luck - you could make all 95%s out of say hundreds of retrys. Just as you could throw a dice 100 times and not get any 6.

Now for the quality of randomness in the daoc engien - that is a totally different matter :)
 

Raven

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I once made around 30 bows with 0 99s/mps then the next day i couldnt stop making 99s its purely random in some messed up way
 

Asq

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I’ve had the same happen when going for an mp great sword. Po-ed as a was (that happens sometimes :)) I put up my question at Rightnow. The answer came 2 weeks later, quote: “nothing has changed”.
 

seeph

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After spending 7p on a lvl 50 Cleaver MP run and 127 tries i had NO mp, was broke and had 24!!!!!!! 99% cleavers wich i can't seem to sell.

they have been in my CM for 8 weeks and still have about 18 left, they are Priced at an unbelievable LOW price 200g!

so please go 1863 carlinford if u think u can make a profit on them :)
 

judas

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Nice. :p
was someone in alb who had 273 retries on hes shield. :> lucky for him they are realy cheap.
 

Klonk

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As someone said: when based on a large number of tries (a large sample - in the language of a statistician) the probability of a MP is 2%. But that doesn't mean that you can craft 50 and get one. It means if you craft 5000 you will get close to 100, if you craft 50 million you get 1 million and so forth. Statistics is often based on _large_ numbers, so you have to be careful when applying them to crafting (i.e. who has the cash to test this?).
 

Rage

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Greetings

Depending on how the random numbers are created the 1/50 chance for MP can be more of an aproximate than a statistical fact, even in large sets. Random numbers in computers are picked from a list of existing numbers, based on a mathematical formula, and are thus not true random numbers, but something called pseudo-random. That means that weather you get an MP or not is allready pre-determined by the place in the list where you pick your numbers. Of course there are ways to increase the accuracy of pseudo-random numbers, by good programming.

I myself often feel that if you have a streak of 94-96 and suddenly you start getting 97-98-97-99 then the MP is just around the corner, but I suspect its a trick of the imagination =).

It would be intressting to make a test, say you roll randoms and do it 30 times, if you havent got any 99 or 100 out of those you craft and count the tries to MP, redo 100 times and check if there is an over representation of MP's in the sub 25 tries section. Of course its a bit over ambitious but feel fre to try it =).

with regards
Rage
 

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