Talk:V8 drop rate study/@comment-27980511-20190816010418/@comment-34918040-20190816082359

@ ShinnyShin:

I don't know if I got your question right, but in case you are asking if all engines have the same drop rate: Of course not. Every engine has its own drop rate, and this drop rate is not always according to the rough classification of "rarity".

I've chosen V8 Engines because they are the most wanted, most needed and most discussed engines in the game. For this test, it isn't important if the V8 drop rate is generally high or low: If one of the myths were true, the test player [me] should get a significantly lower (if not devastatingly low) amount of V8s in relation to all received engines, compared with the other players.

This is also why the values in the "relative frequency" column of the table are not the drop rates of V8 Engines.
 * The drop rate would be the amount of V8s in relation to all cards a player has got.
 * The value in the table, however, shows the amount of V8s in relation to all engines a player has got.

This makes the results comparable because they're independent of the general amount of engines the players get.

Besides, values will still change. Some players contribute their data in large packages spanning a longer time, so the "other players" row is far from being representative at the moment.

If you want to know more about the rarity of engine cards and their real drop rates, there's an overview at the "Felt" drop rates section of the article on rarity. There you can see that some rare engines are actually even more frequent than some common ones.