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What's wrong with the oracle? https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=26850.msg341278#msg341278
« on: May 27, 2011, 09:38:57 am »
I've been playing this game for roughly a month now, have been seeing the oracle every day since. I've yet to win a SINGLE card.

The drops are insanely low on there, it's ridiculous. Shouldn't it be higher? I've been trying to get a nymph for a month and I'm failing hard.

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Re: What's wrong with the oracle? https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=26850.msg341279#msg341279
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2011, 09:55:50 am »
Not getting a single card sounds like quite the luck (or lack thereof). Not getting a nymph one month in isn't especially bad luck, there are players that have gone a year without getting one (here's looking at you, Jen-i  :D ).

Between my main and my alt, I haven't gotten a nymph for a few months, but the spin rates for Nymphs seem fine as they are. Like DK said, Weekly Tournaments are always an option (and you can join both Eastern and Western).

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Re: What's wrong with the oracle? https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=26850.msg341290#msg341290
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2011, 11:17:27 am »
As I've told many frustrated players: if repeated attempts yield nothing, change a variable.
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Re: What's wrong with the oracle? https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=26850.msg341917#msg341917
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2011, 08:12:09 am »
Just a bad luck. I get on the average 1 nymph each month and visiting oracle every second day. 10 Nymphs (3 sold)

EDIT : I just got a horned frog

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Re: What's wrong with the oracle? https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=26850.msg342014#msg342014
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2011, 01:21:42 pm »
You just gotta learn to be patient. It took me about 10 months or so to get my first nymph. Now I have 8 (sold one the first time because I was a n00b).

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Re: What's wrong with the oracle? https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=26850.msg346189#msg346189
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2011, 01:50:03 am »
Aww don't say something is wrong with the oracle you will hurt its feelings. It's so nice it gave me 19 nymphs in all you just gotta believe.  :P
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Re: What's wrong with the oracle? https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=26850.msg348065#msg348065
« Reply #6 on: June 08, 2011, 08:12:01 pm »
Patience is a virtue. Still, I think it would be plain more fun if we got something cool more often. Furthermore, I find it somewhat ridiculous that the rng gives some people not a single nymph while others get over twenty. If I was in the former group rather than the later one, I might have left by now.  ::)

In my opinion it would work better if instead of a bit over 3% chance of getting a nymph there was a bit under 9% chance of getting an elemental essence thing -three of which could be exchanged for a random nymph. The average time to get three of those would statistically be the same as the time it takes to get a nymph now, but it'd mitigate the extreme cases of luck and misfortune, as well as provide more of those "YESSS!!!"(tm) oracle moments. (And then there could be a system in place to choose a nymph by providing five essence things instead of three, but that's a bit besides the point.) In the end, however, replacing the current system for something like this would likely cause too much chaos and confusion to make for a sensible change.

 

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