Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-75.100.64.94-20190326150138/@comment-75.100.64.94-20190329003221

Mitzi11 wrote: Howard the game has a random for each play. Lets say that you start room and the random of getting a CI is 10% (technically if the random of 10% would be same for all plays, you would get CI one every 10 games) Now add the Gargoyle, which increases your chances by 60%. This percentage is calculated on the random number which for ease of explanation we using 10%. Therefore your chance increases to 16% of getting the CI. Howard says:

This is incorrect. First, the CI drop rate for exploring rooms is 10%. This means you will receive an average of 1 CI per ten rooms explored, not 1 every 10 rooms. Check it yourself. Do a hundred plays with no luck talisman, the results will be approximately 10 CIs for the 100plays. Of course, your result could vary by a b8t, but with enough plays the average drop rate will be clear.

Now. take the Eagle Eye which says it increase your chance by 50%. This does NOT mean that the effect of that talisman gives you a 15% chance of getting a CI to drop. It means that you add 50% to your base chance — you get a 60% chance of a CI with an Eagle Eye. Again, check it yourself. Do 100 plays with Eagle Eye, you will get approximately 60 CIs. In practice you won’t need 100 drops, in will be clear very quickly you are getting slightly better than 50%. Way more than 15%.

I grant you that the description of the luck talismans is ambiguous, but this is how they work. Another example, Seekers Star increases your chance by 90% resulting in a 100% CI drop.

As for the Gargoyle pendant ... the description of its effect on your chances is the same as that for the Eagle Eye, Seekers Star and other luck pendants. But with a different increase amount and duration. However, it does not work the same. Perhaps it doesn’t work at all anymore. I never used it much before now, because other better talismans were available. I am investigating it now because it still stacks with the Seekers Star. So what does it do?

Howard