How long did you camp your spirit shroud?

**Mauurie** · Nov 12th, 2006, 16:43:19

Wow, 1k+ and no shroud?

I've found 6 in about 400 kills.

**Blondenurse** · Nov 12th, 2006, 17:06:51

What are this saturday's lottery numbers, mauurie? i'm still at max kills! yay for me!

**Ephyon** · Nov 14th, 2006, 11:42:06

There is a Spirit Shroud O.o

Found mine a few days ago now, just took a advy to join my team and it dropped ^^

**Ober** · Nov 19th, 2006, 10:16:52

About a year.

I'll try the adv thing tomorrow.
Maybe even grab a keeper for good measure.

Edit: The adv thing didn't work..
[Quetzalcoatl] Oberdoc: Character stored. 94877 Shadowknowledge saved.
[Quetzalcoatl] Oberdoc: !calc 94877/800
[Quetzalcoatl] ****: 94877/800 = 118.59625

Gonna try Trox melee adv + trox keeper next time...

**Hildegaard** · Nov 20th, 2006, 00:50:52

This is one of the things I find profoundly discouraging about AO.

Meaning, the way some people get drops with such ease, and others never get the misbegotten item, whatever it may be.

It makes me suspect that there are hidden game mechanics responsible.

"Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action."

But of course somebody is going to pipe up with a comment to the effect that I just don't understand the meaning of "random".

**RedWobe** · Nov 20th, 2006, 07:07:49

Originally Posted by Hildegaard

But of course somebody is going to pipe up with a comment to the effect that I just don't understand the meaning of "random".

I think you just dont understant the meaning of "random." See, in any set, given a low probability blah blah blah blah blah...

**Blondenurse** · Nov 20th, 2006, 10:27:37

The word random is used to express lack of purpose, cause, order, or predictability in non-scientific parlance.

A random process is a repeating process whose outcomes follow no describable deterministic pattern, but follow a probability distribution.

The term randomness is often used in statistics to signify well defined statistical properties, such as lack of bias or correlation. Random is different from arbitrary, because to say that a variable is random means that the variable follows a probability distribution. Arbitrary on the other hand implies that there is no such determinable probability distribution for the variable.

Source: Wikipedia.

**Nakahara** · Dec 7th, 2006, 08:21:57

Dropped one yesterday, killing scourges with a Shade guildie.
Was about the 30th we killed today, for a total of about... 60, maybe 75.
Now it's time to drop he second for her NT

**Formol** · Dec 7th, 2006, 08:48:16

Originally Posted by Hildegaard

This is one of the things I find profoundly discouraging about AO.

Meaning, the way some people get drops with such ease, and others never get the misbegotten item, whatever it may be.

It makes me suspect that there are hidden game mechanics responsible.

"Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action."

But of course somebody is going to pipe up with a comment to the effect that I just don't understand the meaning of "random".

the said game mechanics you are refering to are called 'serendipity'

**Smaaldor** · Dec 7th, 2006, 22:53:09

63 and counting. hope it wont take 1k+, i can feel the pain about those unlucky dewds/gals

**epolass** · Dec 8th, 2006, 10:03:03

Last night i was camping pen slithers with a crat orgmate for the inf boots multuk.
He charmed a NS to go faster. As we were killing slithers fast, we beat the spawn time, o we decided to kill only one NS to pass the time.

I told him on teamspeak "If the shroud drops know, you are the ****ing luckyest player around" or somethinh like that, in french.

Guess what, he now got a spirit shroud. On 1st kill. As far as i am concerned, it was my 7th kill, and i already got mine.

Yes, you can /ignore me.

Good day.

**Siorai2** · Dec 8th, 2006, 10:21:22

1....0....6.....4..........this is so not even remotely funny anymore........

**FairyFighter** · Dec 8th, 2006, 11:37:14

Originally Posted by Hildegaard

This is one of the things I find profoundly discouraging about AO.

Meaning, the way some people get drops with such ease, and others never get the misbegotten item, whatever it may be.

It makes me suspect that there are hidden game mechanics responsible.

"Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action."

But of course somebody is going to pipe up with a comment to the effect that I just don't understand the meaning of "random".

OMG!! j00 r n00b or what? Never heard of GM? GayMaster, I mean Game Master? Those ppl normaly invisible to regular players are monitoring game whole the time. They distribute loot and are in charge of all other 'random' events in game. Yet out of game they can read this forums as we can. So they are just checking who is most pissed off fact that shroud has not drop yet and they do not let it drop. Then they check who do not needs it as allready has all phats in game and gives a shait about shroud so first time he/she kills it thing drops.

Randoms means operated by GM

cheerz
Fairy

PS
By writing this post I just decreased drop rate of shroud for me...

**Siorai2** · Dec 8th, 2006, 11:51:52

Originally Posted by FairyFighter

OMG!! j00 r n00b or what? Never heard of GM? GayMaster, I mean Game Master? Those ppl normaly invisible to regular players are monitoring game whole the time. They distribute loot and are in charge of all other 'random' events in game. Yet out of game they can read this forums as we can. So they are just checking who is most pissed off fact that shroud has not drop yet and they do not let it drop. Then they check who do not needs it as allready has all phats in game and gives a shait about shroud so first time he/she kills it thing drops.

Randoms means operated by GM

cheerz
Fairy

PS
By writing this post I just decreased drop rate of shroud for me...

If this is indeed the case, something I've suspected for a very long time, then I'd like to make it clear I now have enough zods points for my shell, so I won't be needing that shroud anymore, and any scourges I kill will just be to help pass the time.

**FairyFighter** · Dec 8th, 2006, 11:54:57

Siorai,

Grab Shell, go to Pen, kill scourge, loot shround, wana bet?

**Smaaldor** · Dec 8th, 2006, 15:26:40

Originally Posted by FairyFighter

Siorai,

Crab Shell, go to Pen, kill scourge, loot shround, wana bet?

that is 100% sure, 5credz on it

**Redbar** · Dec 10th, 2006, 21:59:04

Well not on my doc, but I'll brag anyway:

One scourge kill ever on trader, one shroud looted.

I was in a pen mission today with a pickup team, and was missing 500 SK for level 204 after the dummy was dead. The keeper suggested he log his doc (Wyldebeast, thanks again) and help me get the ding on scourges. Got the ding in one kill, too.

**Nanofox1** · Dec 11th, 2006, 05:26:44

200-300 kills, no drop.

**Louderer789** · Dec 11th, 2006, 19:03:56

Siorai you should convince all your lowbie fixer orgmates to come out and kill them for you

It's not bad SK and most fixers have no desire to get a hold of it, teh perfect exploitation. *hugs his shroud he keeps in his treatment buffing bag*

**Ober** · Dec 11th, 2006, 23:41:49

[Vicinity Loot Messages] Oberdoc looted Spirit Shroud of the Infantry from Remains of Notum Scourge.

Today.

Check auno bio, I started soloing them regularily at 203'ish...

"Yay!"

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