Talk:Orokin Void/@comment-76.107.15.202-20130902220929

When will people realize that just because you are looking for something with, let's say, a 25% chance, it doesn't mean that after you run the mission 4 times you should get it? That's like saying that if you flip a coin twice, you should definitely get heads once and tails once. And we all know that it isn't unlikely that you get either heads or tails twice. A good example is to say that if the mission has a 25% chance to reward 4 things, then it's as if at the end of a mission you randomly pick a number 1-100 (which is done automatically for you) and each of the 4 rewards has a set of numbers assigned to it.

So rewards could look like this:

Reward 1: 1-25

Reward 2: 26-50

Reward 3: 51-75

Reward 4: 76-100

Suppose you run the mission wanting to get reward 3. And once you complete the mission, you get assigned the number 73. Well since you got the number 73 and reward 3 is given for numbers 51-75, you will get reward 3. On the other hand, if you had been assigned the number 38, then you would have gotten reward 2 since it's given to those with numbers 26-50.

So you can run the mission 50 times, and if the number generated for you at the end of the mission isn't ever one of the numbers assigned to the reward you want, then you won't get it. EVEN THOUGH you have a pretty good chance to get it and probability is in your favor, probability is also the very thing that will keep you from getting it.

Side note: If you were to convert that logic to an actual loot table, it'd look like this.

T3 Exterminate Rewards:

Latron Prime Receiver: 1-12.65

Latron Prime Blueprint: 12.66-26.30

Reaper Blade: 26.31-39.95

Reaper Prime Blueprint: 39.96-47.32

Forma Blueprint: 47.33-59.97

Forma: 59.98-61.96

Frost Prime Blueprint: 61.97-66.46

Frost Pime Helmet Blueprint: 66.47-80.11

Frost Prime Chassis Blueprint: 80.12-92.76

Frost Prime Systems Blueprint: 92.77-100

(The percentages were rounded in some cases. If you add them up, they equal 100.13. So I just decided to ignore that extra 0.13 for the sake of the example.)

So when you run a T3 Exterminate wanting a Frost Prime Blueprint, you better hope RNGeezus gives you a number between 61.97 and 66.46.