Talk:Random Box/@comment-35102879-20191215222522/@comment-34918040-20191216000039

Be careful when interpreting the numbers: The tables only list the distribution of part types for all classes together; you can't deduce that the distribution of B Parts is the same as the total distribution.

If you have a look at Part cards by class above in the infobox, you'll see that Random Boxes have a very low drop rate of B Parts in general, so B Parts do not contribute so much to the total drop rates as Parts from other classes.

When I designed the infoboxes and the overview tables, I did not list all part cards separately because the infoboxes and tables woud have become huge. Furthermore, at that time, Part cards were never a problem, it was before GL changed the upgrade requirements to obscene numbers.

About your concern to get meaningful data: We notice when they secretly tamper with the drop rates. That's what the project was created for. When they do, we take the old data out of the pool; see the Previous versions section above. What you see on the main box pages is usually up to date. It takes us a few days to three weeks at most to notice and react. That's what the "last checked" (official data) and "Period" (statistical data) tags are for. If they show old dates, the information may be outdated. If both dates are after the last update, predictions will be quite accurate.

Back to B parts: I've run a separate selection in the data base only for B Parts in Random Boxes. The current frequencies are:


 * 117 Tires - B
 * 138 Suspension - B
 * 17 Drivetrain - B
 * 31 Exhaust - B

So your results were quite in line with statistics; you only couldn't see these numbers in the tables.

Random Boxes are definitely the wrong boxes to search for B Parts. First because of their generally low drop rate of B parts, and second because of their disastrous proportions of B Part types.