ive heard a few whispers about these going around, about people, spotting a pattern, and since i had a mega mega lucky day yesterday (4/5 pal rappies)can anyone tell me if theres a pattern, or if i can do anything at all to encourage rare enemy appearnaces? just give me some suggestions (as long as their not totall made up!) i dot really mind if theyre wrong, i just want to know....
I really have no idea. Of course I wouldn't be surprised if Kefka locked this thread for "lying" (¬_¬), but personally I think something is controlling the rare drops, whether intentionally or unintentionally on ST's part. Beat-time theory, though technically disproven (so many will tell you), was more of an "unintentional" theory.
One friend of mine believes (or used to, anyway; he doesn't play much anymore) in lucky days for IDs... one day is a greenill day, the next a skyly day, etc... this theory didn't seem to work when I tried it. However, there do seem to be lucky days where you can't stop tripping over 9-stars, and eventually you find a nice new item that day too. There also seem to be "mat and grinder days" where you just find a ton of these items. As for rappies, sometimes when I see a LOT of King Rappies, sometimes I see a Pal Rappy shortly before/after.
What's behind it? Hard to say. Calendar date, beat time, some combination of the two... *shrug*
I blelieve in it, I completed seaside 3 times and I got over or as many as 4 Specail weapons, so definatly, I don't know what it counts on. I just think that sometimes your really lucky, then after a while you'll be really unlucky, then back to normal, and so on. anyway, thats what i think.
Actually your not far out Jarl. There is a theory that beat time raises or lowers basic drop rates slightly according to time of day! In fact (this could be a fluke but is not disproven either) I found a stag cutlery from a barble in ultimate forest with my greenill early one morning. A freind offline said it was so cool he wanted one to, so I stayed at his overnight and at the same time in the morning i switched on again and somewhere in F2 I found another one! This theory could transfer over to rare enemies to!
it might Anti, I saw two Hildtoors really quickly in temple one morning, and i didn't quit in between them!
look like ill be pipnig between 500 and 600 beats for pals then
why would you do that? oh, isn't that when you saw loads of them?
4/5 to be precise so yes
Late 400s to early 500s seem to be a prime piping time. Offline, that was the day I saw two 'torrs at once through piping. But that was before I got online and it re-synched the beats. Now I can't remember when 400-600 is... heh. Used to be for me, that my best piping time was around 6-7 PM EST.
Lets make this the official beat times thread.