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Lunar Phase Luck

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Tue, 01/24/2012 - 01:50
Divine-Cookie's picture
Divine-Cookie

Once upon an "Oktoberfest!" event, a game that I like very much and still play often introduced in-game costumes that can only be worn on a real world full moon. Naturally, I loved the idea and collected all the costume pieces for this game then installed a "Moon Phase Gadget" (http://daylightmap.com/moon/) so that I would know when to wear these costume pieces. Unfortunately, I now feel like some crazed conspiracist because I have noticed my Spiral Knights luck (and the luck of others) increase during specific lunar phases.

During these phases, I have seen multiple love puppies greet me with yelps of love. Weapons and armor/helm pieces that "randomly drop" are suddenly appearing in mass. I've noticed this for the past couple months but never voiced my thoughts because I am a rational person and coincidences such as these are bound to happen. Today, I finally had a "wtf moment" and all of my rational thoughts diminished when I read a thread created yesterday titled, "Gear has been dropping a lot lately, what have YOU found?"

Therefore, my question to the developers and community is... Am I going insane or do rare occurrences in Spiral Knights become less rare during/around particular lunar phases?

Tue, 01/24/2012 - 02:53
#1
Guyinshinyarmour
Tin foil hat

Yours is on too tight.

But seriously, it's all in your head. There is literally no reason that the devs would code the game to pay out better due to lunar phases. Now, I'm gonna get the nice men in white coats to drop by your house. :p

Tue, 01/24/2012 - 03:40
#2
Kalaina-Elderfall's picture
Kalaina-Elderfall
I haven't seen a gear drop in

I haven't seen a gear drop in ages, haven't seen a rare monster in quite a while, and have had poor crafting efforts lately. So if other people are having good luck recently, it's at the expense of mine.

It's odd, but sometimes the probability of strange coincidences occurring can be rather high. Given that you were going to have good luck at some point in a month, the probability of that good luck happening around the full moon is about 10% (3 days of moon / 30 days of month). And there are a lot of players capable of noticing odd coincidences. Maybe it just happened to be you and the full moon rather than somebody else and Thursdays, or after eating tacos, or having one's hair tied back, or while singing songs from Rent.

At any rate, enjoy your luck, whatever the reason =]

Tue, 01/24/2012 - 04:39
#3
Fallenhope's picture
Fallenhope
WOW

I THINK SOMEONE FOUND OUT NICK'S 10TH SECRET

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