Talk:Showdown Update/@comment-36912561-20190701175437

@ GBM,

Let’s start off by saying that we’re NOT enemies. I like your statistical approach towards ... well everything in A8, be it boxes, or other things.

However, your "myth busters" are increasingly causing a heartburn for me to accept. Not even reading the statistical datas etc and reading the comments or the article throughly can I conclude that I am in accordance. Also bear in mind that I am not superstitious.

Let’s put this in a simple & time tested way: right from 2014/2015 onwards till this date, playing heavily or very lightly or even none at times due to work/vacations etc can I accept the myth busters.

Why?

As people have commented for quite some time, the prime factual evidence lies that if you have a mid level inventory of any particular resource, you’ll get more of those, unless GL specifically shuts the drop rate.

To give you an idea, when I was short changed on the ultra precious SRE/CRE/Rotaries, etc I never got any by opening a huge number of normal boxes(or even some dedicated engine boxes, for eg). From last 2 years or so, I got many cars, now amounting to more than 200. Equally size able are other resources and naturally I got all those I had but mostly NEVER getting the cards that I needed when I didn’t have one(even the most banal tech cards like the early tech etc).

So unless you are opening the dedicated boxes guaranteed to give that specific card you require, and this means you’re in effect NOT short on resources, you can stay quite relaxed and stress free but the exact opposite if you’re short on something specific needed for that time, which is not on sale via token hemorrhage or by spending actual money.

Concerning the drop rates being normal etc, I hate to say: it still has the old GL way, i.e. not getting the ones that you need unless you’re really lucky or wander on the shady side of the business.

This drivetrain bug, though I haven’t encountered myself as I left the Aston event quite early just support the vast majority that says the actual grim picture from GL.

Sure you can get some of the precious cards, be it a V6/V8 etc etc but the drop rates in this way is so much negligible that you’re basically back to square one. Not much useful especially these days with the obscene amount of cards required for everything.

What would be useful however is to have a poll/input from all the users who provide these info and not just from a few users reflecting a small proportion.

Are we still friends GBM? 🤔