Gathering success rates broken?

[Shadygrove]

I have been tracking this in a spreadsheet and it seems likely that the algorithms they use may be slightly off from what is displayed on the screen. I am going to keep tracking for a larger sample size.

THIS.

Talking about one node is beyond simply an inadequate sample size. Its almost a joke. For instance I have had 0 HQs at a 30% HQ rate, and 50% at a 15% node. No I don't do spreadsheets but I believe in the long run it will even out.

Almost every other post in this thread is basically "curse you RNG."

[Grey_Cain]

My best run so far has been 33 HQ mythril ores to 19 NQ ores, with 13 failures on 65 attempts (15 nodes) at 81%/15% base chance, and one 5-hit node for all 5 HQ Black Alumen at 15%. My worst run was 0 HQ fire rocks to 26 NQ rocks with no failures on 26 attempts (6 nodes) at 100%/25% HQ (had bonus HQ up for every node), and one 4-hit node at 94% getting 0 hits.

After farming Flax exhaustively, however, I have to say that SE's RNG is scarily accurate. In the short term there are all sorts of wonky results, but over time the good runs and the bad runs even out to an almost perfectly even percentage. Even scarier, one flax run I made to gather over 600 flax and the 16% average HQ rate (including the 10% HQ buff whenever available) stayed with me for every 100 flax without variation.