Curse

SuperDave · Aug 17, 2008, 10:47 PM // 22:47

I'm on 4/5 temple guardians.. out of 9 characters. . 8 temple guardians, now that would really have sucked.

Mad King Corn · Aug 17, 2008, 11:24 PM // 23:24

Don't feel bad, I have gotten 7 Whiptail Devouers.

, and the rest were white
except for a purple kirin.

FengShuiDove · Aug 18, 2008, 12:08 AM // 00:08

Mini Kirin is the "rarest" I've gotten. All else white.

Hyper Cutter · Aug 18, 2008, 03:15 AM // 03:15

My first two characters to hit one year got Mini Shiros. Everyone else got whites or purples. Kurenai got a Mini Gwen (which I'd wanted since I found out it existed), and my necro got a mini Mandragor. The next character in line isn't due for a birthday until October...

Lady Raenef · Aug 18, 2008, 03:49 AM // 03:49

Actually, all of my first year minipets on three characters were Fungal Wallows. My only character to hit year two got a Mini Gwen however.

therangereminem · Aug 18, 2008, 07:30 AM // 07:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thizzle

I got a mini kanaxai for my birthday.

lies alli have to say you cant not get one as a bday gift

**cosyfiep** · Aug 18, 2008, 08:23 AM // 08:23

opened a titan today....have a bunch of bdays in the next 2 weeks ...but will have to wait until I get back to my computer....some 3rd years (hope for an arrgh or spider, or oooze).

strcpy · Aug 18, 2008, 08:50 AM // 08:50

10 characters and all have hit their first birthday. Two have had their third and four have had their second. I have a grand total of two duplicates and they were purples (titans).

Otherwise my luck has run towards yours - I have found a grand total of one true rare in my time in GW (an elemental sword) and it was non-inscribable and, therefore, worthless. There are still a number of plain old minor runes I still have not unlocked, I have found a grand total of three sup vigors and four sup absorption (and with all but one of them well after the market fell out from under them) in three years of play and many many hours of farming. It has been over a year since I have had a minor vigor drop.

Do not get my started on my abysmal rate of both ecto drops (with both my ele and sin) and how many times my perma sin has encountered behemoths totally blocking the path and me wasting 1k to get there. After a good 10 hours or so of farming my total profits are a whopping 15k or so - better off farming vaettir.

Luck happens both ways - in a game with as many people as GW has there will be extremes on each side. It can either suck or be great if you are there and for those of us that always seem in the "suck" zone it is frustrating. But then it has to happen to someone. Just keep plugging away and *most likely* it will go away - but even then *someone* has to have it not go away too. I'm just happy I have at least one part of game go towards the lucky end.

daze · Aug 18, 2008, 10:27 AM // 10:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zinger314

Random Number Generators are Random.

Actually i used to write programming for casino slot machines.One thing i learned is that it is impossible to write code to generate random numbers. Random number generators are never random, just very very very complex.

and i have so far received 4 temple guardians, 3 necrid horsemen, and like 6 jungle trolls. I did get one shiro though.

kratimas · Aug 18, 2008, 10:32 AM // 10:32

I have not received any duplicate pets on any of my characters.

MrSlayer · Aug 18, 2008, 05:44 PM // 17:44

I'm not so much bothered by the fact that they are fungal wallows (although they are the single ugliest creation on the planet...would have preferred 8 whiptails), I am complaining about the stupidness of 8 of the same. And yeah, if they were like, 8 Bone Dragons, I wouldn't be AS peeved.

But I don't buy minipets. Ever. And whilst collecting is not something I take beyond armor and shiny weapons, it would be nice to be able to proudly display something other than an army of angry green blobs.

So yes, I would still be miffed to a degree if I had got 8 of a purple or whatever. My Para hits 1 year in a week or two, and I will be posting (in this thread) if she recieves my 9th Fungal Wallow.

enter_the_zone · Aug 18, 2008, 08:06 PM // 20:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zinger314

Random Number Generators are Random.

Technically, the numbers generated by a computer aren't random. There is always a predictable pattern, even if it is monumentally vast (which it is). It's one of the reasons the lottery isn't drawn by computer.

HawkofStorms · Aug 18, 2008, 09:05 PM // 21:05

Yeah yeah yeah, all this crap about number generators not technically being random are just people repeating what they've heard on wikipedia.

Anybody who actually studies high end math and computer science knows that random number generators, though not "random" in the SCIENTIFIC sense of the word, are "random" in the colloqueal sense that everybody on this page is talking about.

Tender Wolf · Aug 18, 2008, 10:12 PM // 22:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fitz Rinley

Well, I have 22 characters on my main account and 6 on my secondary (purchased before you could get slots). All told I get to farm 28 mini's a year, and yes so far I tend to get duplicates of whites. I have purchased one gold (my warrior's motif animal for all his heroes and himself is of course the War Pig - and he Haaad to have a mini-pig). I have one gold I payed $10.00 for (getting the Destroyer from PC Gamer). And I have a purple Shaman and a Burning Titan. Of my remaining whites, I have duplicates in Fungal Wallows, Jade Armor, and Whiptails. Might have a couple others.

But I wont agree that a person should get one of each randomly and then no more. It would be possible to randomly get one from a pool until you have one of each, then cause a recycle. They won't make this happen for two reasons - they don't care about programming changes to the base code and they won't make a change that eliminates trade. This would elimiante the need to trade minipets.

However, I am quite happy farming 28 minipets a year - it is hard work and takes an entire year to get mixed results. I dont want it to stop at a dozen or so when I need 200 mini's for my ten playing characters HoM.

Uh...what? How do you "farm" mini pets? I got none of that.

And yes it would be cool to get duplicates of the green or gold minis but I'd rather see it be that if your account gets one mini on a birthday it shouldn't get it again rather than take the chance at having duplicate whites that no one wants and are impossible to sell. You can't even merch the little buggers.

OsSeGu · Aug 18, 2008, 10:31 PM // 22:31

5 trolls on my main account (8 chars) and 2 in my secondary (4 chars)

Pleikki · Aug 19, 2008, 04:15 AM // 04:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pleikki

1st year ones
3 trolls
2 whiptail
1 shiro
1 rurik
1 charr
2 nedrids
2nd year ones
3 imps
1 heket
1 juggernaunt
3erd year ones
Freezie
Spider

aww and my mes jusr got another charr for 1st year bday

I pwnd U · Aug 19, 2008, 05:34 AM // 05:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tender Wolf

Uh...what? How do you "farm" mini pets? I got none of that.

And yes it would be cool to get duplicates of the green or gold minis but I'd rather see it be that if your account gets one mini on a birthday it shouldn't get it again rather than take the chance at having duplicate whites that no one wants and are impossible to sell. You can't even merch the little buggers.

By farming he means he has 28 characters that get a minipet each year. So each year he "farms" or gets, 28 minipets.

Arduin · Aug 19, 2008, 10:50 AM // 10:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by I pwnd U

By farming he means he has 28 characters that get a minipet each year. So each year he "farms" or gets, 28 minipets.

Yet still he calls it 'hard work'

Pleikki · Aug 19, 2008, 01:27 PM // 13:27

well, you can call it "farming" minipets aswell if you farm gemsets, buy coffers, try get mallyx, or do HA, try get ghostly, or that black moa thingy ;D

Ebony Shadowheart · Aug 19, 2008, 01:30 PM // 13:30

I've gotten duplicates of a couple different minis across the 35 chars my fiance and I have. I think we've had like 4 temple guardians, 4 seige turtles, 3 whiptails, and a couple of trolls. I got lucky and got a shiro and a rurik on my main account. =)