Ok, people are missing that I am level 11 with 17 already unlocked. My question pertains to if anyone else experienced anything similar and if it's a way of them getting us to spend diamonds.
Nah. No way to prove if it's a weighted random to spur BP sales. I'd bet they wouldn't bother with such a system, unless BP sales are a big income stream. My guess is BPs are NOT a big income stream.
There is a rarity in bps as well as in goods...it's a design to influence diamond use...And the rarity is different for each player. Every player I talked to noticed this same rarity in every GB...not one could say they had an even amount which is just as random. For the hell of it, I built my Colisseum and ejected all the levels then traded dupes until I had four singles left. Over time the disparity continued, just with a different single bp, but months of GE and RC's just continues the trend with one bp being extremely rare. Will INNO ever admit it...? No. Can anybody say they have an even amount (or close to it) in large numbers on any GB...?
Where is the data to verify if there is a weighted drop sample to encourage the 'gotta have it now' crowd to spend money?
Inno has never confirmed this--and they won't--but a lot of players have long-suspected that there is at least one rare bp for a given gb and often another that's scarce. I've certainly experienced this myself, often enough that it's really unlikely it's merely a statistical fluke. It also seems that the hard-to-find prints vary from player to player; i.e., the rare print on my Arc is the top right corner, but other players will be looking for prints in different positions. Of course this is a strategy to increase diamond sales, but it seems like a perfectly reasonable and fair one since the missing prints will turn up eventually.
It could be a bad algorithm. It could be random. Of course we can also assume it's a 'legit and fair' business strategy. I don't think it is.
It appears random, but in order to create rarity in one place, you have to put those BPs somewhere else, so the game randomly picks one of the other 8 slots to put new BPs to keep a "slight" rarity for one slot. It naturally grows a few others higher, making it look like a standard randomness, but could easily be the result of programming.
True. Or it could be Random.
Do opinions require evidence? I thought only facts do.
They do, especially when the opinion is competing with another for 'truth', or acceptance, and one wants it taken seriously. Otherwise we have to trot out the grandpa line of "Opinions are like butts...".
That is incorrect. Not believing in something is not the same as believing that something does not exist. Atheists do not believe in God. There is no belief, period. Atheists do not believe there is no God. That's a backwards way of explaining it. Atheists have a total LACK of belief. No need to believe in anything because God does not exist. I don't "believe" there is no God because that implies a God could exist not to believe in. It might sound like word trickery, but there IS a difference. "I don't believe in God" ≠ "I believe there is no God" -- even though it might be said both ways, and it sounds similar, atheists believe the former, not the latter. You can't believe in something not existing. It either exists or it doesn't. You can believe it exists or you can not believe that it exists, but you can't believe that it doesn't exist. Confused?
Atheism is weird. I see why Neil deGrasse Tyson distanced himself from the label in an interview. It also brings to mind my young mind's conundrum when I found out that there are multiple forms/sects of Christianity. How can people define the same thing in different ways? I see the same thing with Atheism, Humanism, Feminism, Egalitarianism, Racism, Sexism, Ageism, Ableism and all the -isms I've missed.
That being said...
An easier explanation is some people don't see evidence of a Judaeo-Christian G-d. We don't have a label for people who don't beleive in Santa Clause, which begs to the question why we need a label for people who don't believe in other deities. I ain't Hindu, does that make me an Atheist?
I distracted myself. The point I was driving at was 'evidence'. There is no evidence to support the argument that Inno has a weighted system for GB blueprints. There is evidence for the BP system being random. Everything else is fun hypothetical.
If I'm feeling Alazy next week, I may look at my BPs and see if my data is worth delivering.