Soopajake
04-25-2012, 10:43 AM
Hi guys, I was wondering if we can put our experiences and heads together to figure out a winning "strategy" to these lockbox events. I know there has been scattered discussions before with Xclusive, Swifty, Nicholost and other elite players.
From a programming perspective, how does these events work? Is it a program that runs in the background of our CC or is it one from server side? Is each ATM an individual data packet or just a "bean" in the machine - to be randomized by the program?
The reason for these questions is that I was thinking about Xclusive's theory: that Boxes that come from higher boss farms or higher level players yield higher quality "payloads," say, verses a Box that you would get from a lower level PvP loot (respect points, low level worthless loot, $25,000 etc)
Also, there is the other theory regarding lower numbers of boxes like Nicholost said: lower numbers of boxes in your possession could increase the ratio of successful opens? Would hoarding ATMS/boxes hurt opening chances because each new aquisition resets a chance of a successful open? If thats the case, then we should hoard like crazy in the first few days then lay low and open only what we have?
Thanks for the discussion friends! And thank you funzio for these fun events.
From a programming perspective, how does these events work? Is it a program that runs in the background of our CC or is it one from server side? Is each ATM an individual data packet or just a "bean" in the machine - to be randomized by the program?
The reason for these questions is that I was thinking about Xclusive's theory: that Boxes that come from higher boss farms or higher level players yield higher quality "payloads," say, verses a Box that you would get from a lower level PvP loot (respect points, low level worthless loot, $25,000 etc)
Also, there is the other theory regarding lower numbers of boxes like Nicholost said: lower numbers of boxes in your possession could increase the ratio of successful opens? Would hoarding ATMS/boxes hurt opening chances because each new aquisition resets a chance of a successful open? If thats the case, then we should hoard like crazy in the first few days then lay low and open only what we have?
Thanks for the discussion friends! And thank you funzio for these fun events.