So with MB's recent "exceedingly rare" comment, my feeling is that if they're so rare, it's unlikely to require the mission as a prerequisite for them to spawn. Of course I may be totally wrong, it's just one of those gut feeling things.
Anyway as a result I'm gonna stop hunting the missions and go out searching.
Just on a tangent, with MB's recent comment on meta-alloys :
Does anyone remember MB's quote on UA's from way back?
Remarkably similar.
Which gets me thinking, I mean if something is exceedingly rare from a developer's point of view how so you ensure players encounter it?
I mean if you're placing it on certain planets then it's really hard to quantify how rare that is in real terms.
Or if you're say, defining a few regions and making them spawn there, would you call that "exceedingly rare" but for me I don't think I would. For the reason that for something to be quantifiable as a certain level of rareness, "exceedingly", then that rareness has to be in relation to something else, and well am I defining it in relation to the number of planets in all the galaxy, or the number within 1000LY of the bubble? These are hugely different figures.
I really cannot help feeling this lack of context might seem to *imply* that the large barnacles are just a very low spawn chance on any planetary POI, I mean then I know the *exact* spawn rate and I can state with confidence some level of rareness.
And essentially isn't that how the UAs were when first introduced, just a very low chance in any SSS anywhere?
By doing it this way you as good as guarantee they'll be found.
Although UAs were later given an area spawn (common in an area) in addition as the story "progressed", so on the flipside perhaps this could mean that out of the door the meta-alloys ARE in an area and not just random in POI.
And just to throw in... if they ARE available in ANY POI at a low chance, and given the meta-alloy mission has a 1 week timer, this would imply a certain average rate of POI checking required.
You could say something like, well the average person checks X POIs per week when very actively looking for something, therefore how about an overall 50% chance someone doing this will be rewarded and will get the right POI.
So let's say X is 200 POIs, then well we could be looking at maybe a 0.25% spawn rate on a POI. Of course just pulling numbers out the air.
Then again if it was wouldn't someone have found them by now?
"Exceedingly" rare, well I'm not sure how many UAs I checked in the 150 hours it took me for the first one.
Gawd, who knows.
