Yes that's why there is so much QQ over it. It's FFXI skill though, it's like salvage or limbus of back in the day : farm faster to get more drops. It's not dependent on luck really but more on the speed at which you can farm the pops and kill the pops. An alliance worth a damn should be bringing 6 SMN for every boss run and cor on mules to reset them so as topop at least 12 per run. 18 man -allaince should be able to farm close to 18 pops on a single dynamis run.