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    So I've played in 2 servers on age II so far and it seems there are different medal drop rates in various servers,

    NA12: Drop rate was found to be 10-15%. This is from my personal experience as well as seeing how many ppl are baronet in the server. Took about 6-7 hours to farm 7-8 medals needed for baronet.

    NA14: Drop rate so far has been less than 1 percent! Attacked lvl 1-6 valleys constantly about 115 times so far without a single medal drop.


    is there any explanation to this rash behavior of servers?

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    Yes, variance.

    Long answer: in any statistical model if you take a small number of samples, you're going to find variance, which decreases as the number of samples increases. For a single sample (i.e. you) the variance is so high that data from a single sample is not at all representative of the population (i.e. everyone else).

    To put it another way, you might flip a coin 5 times and get 4 heads and 1 tail. That does not mean that your coin is unbalanced, or that your chance of getting heads is 80%. If 1,000 people all flipped a coin 5 times, some would get more heads and some would get more tails, but the average would be pretty close to 2.5 of each.

    I hope that makes sense.
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    This is correct. They can tweak medal drops server to server. Early days of Age 1 medals dropped very regular then they nerfed it to around 1% before changing it so NPC's and valleys below 5 dont drop anything. A leopard rarely changes it spots so I can see the same long term plan for Age 2.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Real McCoy View Post
    This is correct. They can tweak medal drops server to server. Early days of Age 1 medals dropped very regular then they nerfed it to around 1% before changing it so NPC's and valleys below 5 dont drop anything. A leopard rarely changes it spots so I can see the same long term plan for Age 2.
    lol well i dont believe that is what dawn was trying to say at all lol
    but i believe you are refering to age1 and yeah you may be right but dawn just said they havent messed with it yet......
    basically he is telling you that you have a small piece of the data and are not seeing the whole picture
    medal drops are purely chance just like the ammys which as you all kno also go through very bad streaks
    so just stick with the medal hunting and the medals will come
    as in dawns example you might be the next player to get the 4 heads in 5 flips
    good luck and happy plunders!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dawnseeker View Post
    Yes, variance.

    Long answer: in any statistical model if you take a small number of samples, you're going to find variance, which decreases as the number of samples increases. For a single sample (i.e. you) the variance is so high that data from a single sample is not at all representative of the population (i.e. everyone else).

    To put it another way, you might flip a coin 5 times and get 4 heads and 1 tail. That does not mean that your coin is unbalanced, or that your chance of getting heads is 80%. If 1,000 people all flipped a coin 5 times, some would get more heads and some would get more tails, but the average would be pretty close to 2.5 of each.

    I hope that makes sense.
    Is it true that medal drops increases as the server gets older?
    Few member of alliance said they experienced similar issue in server NA4 but after about a week the drop rate suddenly increased.

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    Quote Originally Posted by witchking782 View Post
    Is it true that medal drops increases as the server gets older?
    Few member of alliance said they experienced similar issue in server NA4 but after about a week the drop rate suddenly increased.
    No. The first lot of servers had an excellent drop rate. Then as more server came online, those later server has less frequent drop rates and then they started changing the whole dynamics of where they dropped. Ask anyone around when the first few age 1 server came out and ask them how different it was to say something like a server 60

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    Quote Originally Posted by witchking782 View Post
    So I've played in 2 servers on age II so far and it seems there are different medal drop rates in various servers,

    NA12: Drop rate was found to be 10-15%. This is from my personal experience as well as seeing how many ppl are baronet in the server. Took about 6-7 hours to farm 7-8 medals needed for baronet.

    NA14: Drop rate so far has been less than 1 percent! Attacked lvl 1-6 valleys constantly about 115 times so far without a single medal drop.


    is there any explanation to this rash behavior of servers?
    I have noticed a difference in drop rate on different servers as well. Type of drops too.
    On 1 server I have a dozen lion medals, but try to find a rose medal. On another server I have yet to find 1 medal and seem to be accumulating nothing but gems, which work only part of the time due to ther percentage thing, which is also a bit lame.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Real McCoy View Post
    No. The first lot of servers had an excellent drop rate. Then as more server came online, those later server has less frequent drop rates and then they started changing the whole dynamics of where they dropped. Ask anyone around when the first few age 1 server came out and ask them how different it was to say something like a server 60
    Are you saying that the more servers they put up, the lesser the drop rate percentage will drop to? If so, it sounds like everyone on age 2 now has a race against time to medal farm before they put up up a na60 server...

    if that's the case, then the whole medal farming thing is rigged. it will be unfair and unjust for the players that join after na60.
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    Quote Originally Posted by qizheng5 View Post
    Are you saying that the more servers they put up, the lesser the drop rate percentage will drop to? If so, it sounds like everyone on age 2 now has a race against time to medal farm before they put up up a na60 server...

    if that's the case, then the whole medal farming thing is rigged. it will be unfair and unjust for the players that join after na60.
    Im not sure if this is the case in age II, but it is very curious to see only 71 ppl above knight out of 37000 in server NA14. Im convinced at this point that medal rates will either change as the server gets older or something is very wrong with this scenario.

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    no the medals drop rate decreased today!!

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