General Very Seldom Odds

[macfaro]

Hi Everyone,

I was just wondering if people knew the odds of drops when something is listed as very seldom, seldom, often etc....

I knew it would be low but not this low...

 

[greensmith]

There's no telling what the odds are on drops because everything is random. Normally, I have good results using a Golden Dice for Collection drops. Sometimes a plane will drop two or three items. But not always. I landed 16 planes (very seldom) the other day with a Golden Dice and got nothing. Today I landed eight planes (very seldom) with no bonuses and got two drops. It's all random although the right bonuses do seem to increase the odds.
The key for me is persistence and patience. You must have both to play this game. The alternative is to spend lots of real money to speed things up.
Cheers,
Tom

 

[Kesh]

average in seldom without bonuses is around 1/8. Average with all bonuses is around 4-5 on seldom, 5-6 on very seldom.

 

[Jan0987]

I know this is an old thread, but I was wondering what "very seldom" was referenced to - time or number of flights. E.g. 1 drop in 8 hours, or 1 drop in 8 one-hour flights. Sometimes I fly multiple planes to the same destination and don't get anything, but then when I put away the game for several hours and start it up, the drop appears, so I was wondering whether it was time-based and not flight-based.

 

[AshPort]

seldom would be more often then very seldom, i know you know this
i dont think its reference to time, but flights maybe

 

[SactoDave]

I believe it is num

I know this is an old thread, but I was wondering what "very seldom" was referenced to - time or number of flights. E.g. 1 drop in 8 hours, or 1 drop in 8 one-hour flights. Sometimes I fly multiple planes to the same destination and don't get anything, but then when I put away the game for several hours and start it up, the drop appears, so I was wondering whether it was time-based and not flight-based.

I believe it is based on the number of flights, not the length of the flights.

 

[Wasted Eagle]

I believe it is num

I believe it is based on the number of flights, not the length of the flights.

Ivan, I believe, once mentioned that seldom (or any other droprate) doesn’t necessarily mean the same for e.g. Condors and Turboprops, because of the difference in flight duration. It was about an event, I think...

 

[Bob69bob]

1. Very seldom = rare as rocking horse $hit .

 

[Wasted Eagle]

1. Very seldom = rare as rocking horse $hit .

1? We’re making a list now?

 

[Dan]

1. Very seldom = rare as rocking horse $hit .

That depends on who is riding the horse, what they are wearing, and how long they rode it. Kids say some funny stuff.

 

[Bob69bob]

1? We’re making a list now?

I hit the wrong button on the top bar and couldn’t work out how to remove it! You got me

 

[SactoDave]

I hit the wrong button on the top bar and couldn’t work out how to remove it! You got me

I think click to add, click again to take away...

 

[Sudip]

In some cases very seldom means almost never...

 

[Wasted Eagle]

In some cases very seldom means almost never...

In the order of the adverbs of frequency ‘very seldom’ and ‘almost never’ pretty much have the same meaning and come slightly before ‘never’. GI doesn’t lie then...

 

[Teboho]

This is taken straight from G!'s concise lexicon: very seldom refers to "if a destination requires 100 flights to 3 star the first drop of an item will be approximately after 679 flights"