Bag RNG System: Aging Poorly

A tiny success rate to pull an item at all, coupled with the fact that when you pull an item and have 9/10 slots filled gives a literally 90% chance that if you -do- pull an item, it's a duplicate.

Now, that said, the first item you get will more or less always be an upgrade. That said, my roommate has a pair of pants for every day of the week, and if you go back and read the thread, you'll see that just about everyone who chimes in has half a dozen earpieces or two extra pairs of gloves or what-have-you.

This is NOT an isolated problem. It's widespread and it's the result of bad design. And yes, you always get addons to stats you don't need for your first -several- new recipe unlocks from RE... that said, this is very likely because there are many stats, only one of which any person actually needs. It's not like you can put use to something with Cunning if you're an Aim kinda guy, or Willpower if you're a Strength kinda guy.

It's pretty much terrible! It's not that they're designed specifically to be hostile to the player, perhaps, but there are absolutely too many options which are nonviable for such a random system to reward anyone.

Unless they get lucky!

But I've beaten that dead horse enough for this hour, I think.

Yeah I agree that it's a stupid system (as I just posted a few posts ago). I'm just saying that it's not a stacked deck. The problem is that it's random, not that there are systems in place to prevent you from rolling well.

edit: in fact, the only reason I'm here trolling the pvp boards atm is because I'm tabbed out while trying to get a horrible random drop from Field Commander Tripton for my stupid pvp alt. Come on Saber Marshal's bracers! Random sucks. -.-

A 10% chance to pull an item, and soon another 10% chance after that for it to be an item you can use?

I guess it's not specifically stacked, but it certainly is an absolutely abysmal chance. They're not rolling your dice over to a 9 when you roll a 10, but they're certainly asking you to roll two 10s in a row, which is fairly ridiculous as far as percentages are concerned.

Well yeah. Double-RNG is always going to be worse than single-RNG. The system is awful. I'm just saying that it's not looking at what you have, what class you are, and what could be useful to you and specifically giving you the opposite. ;p

Oh, well, certainly not.

They would have to put some gosh darn designwork into it for it to do such a thing!

...do I sound bitter? >_>

Maybe a little. I sense you've gotten many bags with nothing but comms and/or duplicate gear.

I used to have no good mainhand PVP weapon I just got my champ pistol from a purchased champ bag

I still need PVP pants. Energized commando leggings are derp

*EDIT* I don't understand the problem... they want it to take time to grind it. WHo cares if you dont get the l33t champ gear right away? You still get centurion tokens and thus can still purchase centurion gear, which is just slightly weaker... and when you hit V60, you get BM bags which *gasp* gurantee champ tokens, so either way you'll get your champ gear eventually

Not even one! I'm 45.

I just have an appreciation for really finely-tuned designwork. I've been playing games since you had to do your own math. My P&P RPG calculator had -red lights-, not grey LCDs. Took a nine-volt battery.