Spinning the crystal... does it even matter?

EaglesFlyHigh

Just curious.... how do you guys open your crystals (the ones that matter, e.g. 6* champ crystals)... do you let your crystals spin the entire cycle or you just push 'open all' at once?

Probably more important (maybe a question for @kabam)...does it actually matter how you open the crystals? At what point does the game assign the champ that will come out of the crystal? When you get or form the crystal (out of required amount of shards)...or when you actually open the crystal?

Thank you.

Zeraphan

It makes no difference if you spin or pop. I pop so I don't get the disappointment created by what is on either side of the chosen champ.

Scarcity27

The game assigns the champion when you 'tap to stop' (for spin) or 'open crystal' for pop.

I spin the important the crystals out, pop the rest.

Zeraphan

Scarcity27 said:

The game assigns the champion when you 'tap to stop' (for spin) or 'open crystal' for pop.

I spin the important the crystals out, pop the rest.

I read somewhere a long time ago (from a Kabam person) that the champion is actually chosen when you get the crystal itself, so that spin/pop has the same result because it was already assigned.

This is why the pool of champs is fixed for the crystal based on when the crystal was created, and not whatever the current pool is when the crystal is opened.

Scarcity27

Zeraphan said:

Scarcity27 said:

The game assigns the champion when you 'tap to stop' (for spin) or 'open crystal' for pop.

I spin the important the crystals out, pop the rest.

I read somewhere a long time ago (from a Kabam person) that the champion is actually chosen when you get the crystal itself, so that spin/pop has the same result because it was already assigned.

This is why the pool of champs is fixed for the crystal based on when the crystal was created, and not whatever the current pool is when the crystal is opened.

No it's the opposite. The pool depends on the time of opening, hence a lot of people save their crystals until a specific champion enters the pool. The only exceptions here (that I can think of) are event cavs and featureds, which have a set pool that won't change.

Crine60

The spin animation is "fake" and is a psychological tool designed to trick you into thinking you "almost" got a better champ so that you will want to keep opening crystals to try to get that higher rarity or better champ. In the case of regular crystals you just earn through the game it just creates annoyance to players who don't understand it and think they are being cheated out of better pulls and then we get posts about it here, but for crystals you can buy with real money it is sleazy, but I believe a somewhat common practice in mobile or monetized games.

To answer how I open them, I usually spin them because I don't usually want to open all I have (or up to 10) at once and usually just do 1 or 2 at a time. I hate spinning and wish there was an option to select how many I just want to pop open instead of spinning.

Zeraphan

Scarcity27 said:

Zeraphan said:

Scarcity27 said:

The game assigns the champion when you 'tap to stop' (for spin) or 'open crystal' for pop.

I spin the important the crystals out, pop the rest.

I read somewhere a long time ago (from a Kabam person) that the champion is actually chosen when you get the crystal itself, so that spin/pop has the same result because it was already assigned.

This is why the pool of champs is fixed for the crystal based on when the crystal was created, and not whatever the current pool is when the crystal is opened.

No it's the opposite. The pool depends on the time of opening, hence a lot of people save their crystals until a specific champion enters the pool. The only exceptions here (that I can think of) are event cavs and featureds, which have a set pool that won't change.

Not saying you are wrong because I clearly don't work there, but from a programmatic standpoint that seems weird. It would make more sense to have 1 root crystal behavior instead of multiple crystal behaviors.

Also, if it is the time of opening then that would indicate that the spin and pop would have different results potentially if the decision is made at 2 different times instead of already being decided before either action happens.

Either way this is why I leave things as shards (when possible) and don't even turn them into crystals until I actually want to open them.

Scarcity27

Zeraphan said:

Scarcity27 said:

Zeraphan said:

Scarcity27 said:

The game assigns the champion when you 'tap to stop' (for spin) or 'open crystal' for pop.

I spin the important the crystals out, pop the rest.

I read somewhere a long time ago (from a Kabam person) that the champion is actually chosen when you get the crystal itself, so that spin/pop has the same result because it was already assigned.

This is why the pool of champs is fixed for the crystal based on when the crystal was created, and not whatever the current pool is when the crystal is opened.

No it's the opposite. The pool depends on the time of opening, hence a lot of people save their crystals until a specific champion enters the pool. The only exceptions here (that I can think of) are event cavs and featureds, which have a set pool that won't change.

Not saying you are wrong because I clearly don't work there, but from a programmatic standpoint that seems weird. It would make more sense to have 1 root crystal behavior instead of multiple crystal behaviors.

Also, if it is the time of opening then that would indicate that the spin and pop would have different results potentially if the decision is made at 2 different times instead of already being decided before either action happens.

Either way this is why I leave things as shards (when possible) and don't even turn them into crystals until I actually want to open them.

Not much of a programmer, but if they update the data for each type of crystal as soon as a new champion is added to the basic, it makes more sense than to keep the old pool for some hoarded crystals, and the new pool for others.

See, the point of the crystal being chosen is at one tap of a button or the screen. That means that spinning the crystal and stopping one away from a good champ doesn't imply that if you tapped a second later you would haven gotten the champ. It also disproves the crystal being rigged and 'jerking' after stopping and landing on a dud.

Spin and pop don't have differing odds either way.

Also, to answer the basic pool being updated point, here are some similar threads:
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/292846/abyss-nexus-question
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/222710/abyss-nexus-question
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/250159/abyss-nexus

(I searched 'Abyss Nexus' hence all the posts are about that)

NastyPhish

If you hit pop on a crystal. You essentially just hit spin and pop at the same time. If you spin. The tap determines the outcome. Since that’s the “opening” in that case. But crystals are 100% determined by whatever the server says at the moment of opening. So method doesn’t matter. The only argument really even to be made. Is that spinning spreads out the crystals. Giving you random things. Where popping multiple gets you a “chunk” of pops in a row.

Sorta like buying a single lottery ticket every day after work. Or just buying 7 all together every Monday.

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WayWorn2525

Just pop'em. Spinning or popping makes no difference.

Zeraphan

Scarcity27 said:

Zeraphan said:

Scarcity27 said:

Zeraphan said:

Scarcity27 said:

The game assigns the champion when you 'tap to stop' (for spin) or 'open crystal' for pop.

I spin the important the crystals out, pop the rest.

I read somewhere a long time ago (from a Kabam person) that the champion is actually chosen when you get the crystal itself, so that spin/pop has the same result because it was already assigned.

This is why the pool of champs is fixed for the crystal based on when the crystal was created, and not whatever the current pool is when the crystal is opened.

No it's the opposite. The pool depends on the time of opening, hence a lot of people save their crystals until a specific champion enters the pool. The only exceptions here (that I can think of) are event cavs and featureds, which have a set pool that won't change.

Not saying you are wrong because I clearly don't work there, but from a programmatic standpoint that seems weird. It would make more sense to have 1 root crystal behavior instead of multiple crystal behaviors.

Also, if it is the time of opening then that would indicate that the spin and pop would have different results potentially if the decision is made at 2 different times instead of already being decided before either action happens.

Either way this is why I leave things as shards (when possible) and don't even turn them into crystals until I actually want to open them.

Not much of a programmer, but if they update the data for each type of crystal as soon as a new champion is added to the basic, it makes more sense than to keep the old pool for some hoarded crystals, and the new pool for others.

See, the point of the crystal being chosen is at one tap of a button or the screen. That means that spinning the crystal and stopping one away from a good champ doesn't imply that if you tapped a second later you would haven gotten the champ. It also disproves the crystal being rigged and 'jerking' after stopping and landing on a dud.

Spin and pop don't have differing odds either way.

Also, to answer the basic pool being updated point, here are some similar threads:
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/292846/abyss-nexus-question
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/222710/abyss-nexus-question
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/250159/abyss-nexus

(I searched 'Abyss Nexus' hence all the posts are about that)

None of those threads have any official responses though, so that doesn't really solve the question at hand on pools.

From a programming standpoint there is no real such thing as random, random generators still pull in information to use in their algorithms. If the champion is chosen at tap vs pop then one of the things that is often used in that algorithm, system clock time, would be different so while the wheel itself makes no difference that would imply that tap vs pop would actually have a different result for that single crystal. I was under the impression from what I had read in the past that spin/pop would have the same champion result for that crystal.

I know this is kind of splitting hairs as we all know and agree that the champion wheel is fake and that part isn't in debate. I am just now really curious on when the champion is actually chosen for the crystal.

IronGladiator22

NastyPhish said:

If you hit pop on a crystal. You essentially just hit spin and pop at the same time. If you spin. The tap determines the outcome. Since that’s the “opening” in that case. But crystals are 100% determined by whatever the server says at the moment of opening. So method doesn’t matter. The only argument really even to be made. Is that spinning spreads out the crystals. Giving you random things. Where popping multiple gets you a “chunk” of pops in a row.

Sorta like buying a single lottery ticket every day after work. Or just buying 7 all together every Monday.

The champion is chosen right when the crystal is placed on the spinner, not when it is tapped

GroundedWisdom

Zeraphan said:

Scarcity27 said:

Zeraphan said:

Scarcity27 said:

Zeraphan said:

Scarcity27 said:

The game assigns the champion when you 'tap to stop' (for spin) or 'open crystal' for pop.

I spin the important the crystals out, pop the rest.

I read somewhere a long time ago (from a Kabam person) that the champion is actually chosen when you get the crystal itself, so that spin/pop has the same result because it was already assigned.

This is why the pool of champs is fixed for the crystal based on when the crystal was created, and not whatever the current pool is when the crystal is opened.

No it's the opposite. The pool depends on the time of opening, hence a lot of people save their crystals until a specific champion enters the pool. The only exceptions here (that I can think of) are event cavs and featureds, which have a set pool that won't change.

Not saying you are wrong because I clearly don't work there, but from a programmatic standpoint that seems weird. It would make more sense to have 1 root crystal behavior instead of multiple crystal behaviors.

Also, if it is the time of opening then that would indicate that the spin and pop would have different results potentially if the decision is made at 2 different times instead of already being decided before either action happens.

Either way this is why I leave things as shards (when possible) and don't even turn them into crystals until I actually want to open them.

Not much of a programmer, but if they update the data for each type of crystal as soon as a new champion is added to the basic, it makes more sense than to keep the old pool for some hoarded crystals, and the new pool for others.

See, the point of the crystal being chosen is at one tap of a button or the screen. That means that spinning the crystal and stopping one away from a good champ doesn't imply that if you tapped a second later you would haven gotten the champ. It also disproves the crystal being rigged and 'jerking' after stopping and landing on a dud.

Spin and pop don't have differing odds either way.

Also, to answer the basic pool being updated point, here are some similar threads:
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/292846/abyss-nexus-question
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/222710/abyss-nexus-question
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/250159/abyss-nexus

(I searched 'Abyss Nexus' hence all the posts are about that)

None of those threads have any official responses though, so that doesn't really solve the question at hand on pools.

From a programming standpoint there is no real such thing as random, random generators still pull in information to use in their algorithms. If the champion is chosen at tap vs pop then one of the things that is often used in that algorithm, system clock time, would be different so while the wheel itself makes no difference that would imply that tap vs pop would actually have a different result for that single crystal. I was under the impression from what I had read in the past that spin/pop would have the same champion result for that crystal.

I know this is kind of splitting hairs as we all know and agree that the champion wheel is fake and that part isn't in debate. I am just now really curious on when the champion is actually chosen for the crystal.

It's generated the moment we place it to spin, or click Open.

Crine60 said:

The spin animation is "fake" and is a psychological tool designed to trick you into thinking you "almost" got a better champ so that you will want to keep opening crystals to try to get that higher rarity or better champ. In the case of regular crystals you just earn through the game it just creates annoyance to players who don't understand it and think they are being cheated out of better pulls and then we get posts about it here, but for crystals you can buy with real money it is sleazy, but I believe a somewhat common practice in mobile or monetized games.

To answer how I open them, I usually spin them because I don't usually want to open all I have (or up to 10) at once and usually just do 1 or 2 at a time. I hate spinning and wish there was an option to select how many I just want to pop open instead of spinning.

It's not a mass conspiracy. It's a window into the possibilities. It's a randomly-generated representation of what you can get, and it's meant to have some top outcomes because the actual Drop Rates can't reflect in that spin. There's not enough time.

Gomezlink

The spin means nothing, if you're with a friend who plays on the same alliance, it already appears on their cell phone which champion will come out on the alliance tab, before finishing your spin, on your cell phone

Fit_Fun9329

This thread is more interesting than I thought, especially the thing that there is no real randomness from programming perspective. Keep it up

Scarcity27

Gomezlink said:

The spin means nothing, if you're with a friend who plays on the same alliance, it already appears on their cell phone which champion will come out on the alliance tab, before finishing your spin, on your cell phone

Yes, but it only shows up once you tap. The same way the number on your profile will pop up only after you've tapped.

Fit_Fun9329 said:

This thread is more interesting than I thought, especially the thing that there is no real randomness from programming perspective. Keep it up

I believe @DrZola knows a lot about this. Basically there is a thing called pseudo-RNG (pRNG) which generates seemingly random pulls, but it's not entirely random. It's based on a seed number. However, we probably wouldn't find a sample space large enough to see any lasting effects.

Scarcity27

Scarcity27 said:

Zeraphan said:

Scarcity27 said:

The game assigns the champion when you 'tap to stop' (for spin) or 'open crystal' for pop.

I spin the important the crystals out, pop the rest.

I read somewhere a long time ago (from a Kabam person) that the champion is actually chosen when you get the crystal itself, so that spin/pop has the same result because it was already assigned.

This is why the pool of champs is fixed for the crystal based on when the crystal was created, and not whatever the current pool is when the crystal is opened.

No it's the opposite. The pool depends on the time of opening, hence a lot of people save their crystals until a specific champion enters the pool. The only exceptions here (that I can think of) are event cavs and featureds, which have a set pool that won't change.

Also, why the disagrees on this comment? Did I mis-state something?

Steel_Ball_Run

Zeraphan

Scarcity27 said:

Gomezlink said:

The spin means nothing, if you're with a friend who plays on the same alliance, it already appears on their cell phone which champion will come out on the alliance tab, before finishing your spin, on your cell phone

Yes, but it only shows up once you tap. The same way the number on your profile will pop up only after you've tapped.

Fit_Fun9329 said:

This thread is more interesting than I thought, especially the thing that there is no real randomness from programming perspective. Keep it up

I believe @DrZola knows a lot about this. Basically there is a thing called pseudo-RNG (pRNG) which generates seemingly random pulls, but it's not entirely random. It's based on a seed number. However, we probably wouldn't find a sample space large enough to see any lasting effects.

Seeds are indeed generally used to control the randomness.

In Java for example, if I use the Random class and ask it for random numbers I can get a list of what appear to be random numbers. If I set the seed for that Random object and then ask it for random numbers, the numbers will still be random but each time I ask it for a set of random numbers they will be the same sets because the seed has set the pattern to the randomness.

This ability is partially how (especially in the early days of software) serial numbers and credit card numbers were generated. So that they fit the pattern that was needed for the software/card readers to know that they were in fact valid numbers. When you put a credit card number into a browser for example and it tells you it isn't valid, it isn't because it knows for sure at that point it just knows whether it fits the required pattern. It isn't until you try and actually submit the transaction that the number is checked for true validity against the card database.

Antsiou

GroundedWisdom said:

It's not a mass conspiracy. It's a window into the possibilities. It's a randomly-generated representation of what you can get, and it's meant to have some top outcomes because the actual Drop Rates can't reflect in that spin. There's not enough time.

Lol, where did you hear anyone talking about mass conspiracy?

GroundedWisdom

Antsiou said:

GroundedWisdom said:

It's not a mass conspiracy. It's a window into the possibilities. It's a randomly-generated representation of what you can get, and it's meant to have some top outcomes because the actual Drop Rates can't reflect in that spin. There's not enough time.

Lol, where did you hear anyone talking about mass conspiracy?

When it's implied that it's made to entice people to spend more and keep trying, I'm going to challenge that theory if I disagree.

MagicBenton

Zeraphan said:

Scarcity27 said:

The game assigns the champion when you 'tap to stop' (for spin) or 'open crystal' for pop.

I spin the important the crystals out, pop the rest.

I read somewhere a long time ago (from a Kabam person) that the champion is actually chosen when you get the crystal itself, so that spin/pop has the same result because it was already assigned.

This is why the pool of champs is fixed for the crystal based on when the crystal was created, and not whatever the current pool is when the crystal is opened.

You are either mis-remembering what the Kabam person said or mis-interpreting it, because that is 100% wrong. They have said many times the crystal pulls from the current pool of champions at the time you open the crystal, and selects the champion once you put it in the spinner or "pop" it by pressing open. This is true for PHC, 3/4/5/6/nexus/grandmaster/etc. This is why you can hold on to a crystal until the champ you want enters the "basic" pool and have a shot at them then.

The only time this is not the case is for specialty (& featured) crystals which have an exact subset of champions which they define upfront. The pool those select from will not change but they are also selected at the time you put it in the spinner or "pop" them, not upon acquisition of the crystal.

Demonzfyre

Scarcity27 said:

Zeraphan said:

Scarcity27 said:

The game assigns the champion when you 'tap to stop' (for spin) or 'open crystal' for pop.

I spin the important the crystals out, pop the rest.

I read somewhere a long time ago (from a Kabam person) that the champion is actually chosen when you get the crystal itself, so that spin/pop has the same result because it was already assigned.

This is why the pool of champs is fixed for the crystal based on when the crystal was created, and not whatever the current pool is when the crystal is opened.

No it's the opposite. The pool depends on the time of opening, hence a lot of people save their crystals until a specific champion enters the pool. The only exceptions here (that I can think of) are event cavs and featureds, which have a set pool that won't change.

It's why you see a red notification pop up once you "tap to stop".

Antsiou

GroundedWisdom said:

Antsiou said:

GroundedWisdom said:

It's not a mass conspiracy. It's a window into the possibilities. It's a randomly-generated representation of what you can get, and it's meant to have some top outcomes because the actual Drop Rates can't reflect in that spin. There's not enough time.

Lol, where did you hear anyone talking about mass conspiracy?

When it's implied that it's made to entice people to spend more and keep trying, I'm going to challenge that theory if I disagree.

You’re creating your own narrative, if that’s your jam, fair enough. It’s your reading of the situation, OP asked if it mattered, and most of the discussion afterwards was on how the rng aspect actually was implemented. Anyway, to stay on topic (as in not talking about some “conspiracy”), I asked a friend developer to enlighten me at work (We create SaaS and I’m a designer, so I need the technical know how from the team).
His take was that as it’s been established, RNG is never truly rng, but it’s close enough that if fits the purpose. Aka you can’t predict what you’ll get. But, the seed as @Zeraphan mentioned, is often time based, and this can gives the outline of a pattern. But unless we know exactly the seed used to generate the rng table, it’s nearly impossible to find what the pattern is, even less using it.
And as for tap or pop, I don’t know 🤷‍♂️

Aburaees

GroundedWisdom said:

Antsiou said:

GroundedWisdom said:

It's not a mass conspiracy. It's a window into the possibilities. It's a randomly-generated representation of what you can get, and it's meant to have some top outcomes because the actual Drop Rates can't reflect in that spin. There's not enough time.

Lol, where did you hear anyone talking about mass conspiracy?

When it's implied that it's made to entice people to spend more and keep trying, I'm going to challenge that theory if I disagree.

The Near Miss Effect isn’t a conspiracy theory, it’s a well documented feature in mobile gaming.

https://www.psychologyofgames.com/2016/09/the-near-miss-effect-and-game-rewards/

The funniest example in this game is when you notice how often the reel shows you 6* Punisher considering he’s in 1/5000 crystals.

Antsiou

Aburaees said:

GroundedWisdom said:

Antsiou said:

GroundedWisdom said:

It's not a mass conspiracy. It's a window into the possibilities. It's a randomly-generated representation of what you can get, and it's meant to have some top outcomes because the actual Drop Rates can't reflect in that spin. There's not enough time.

Lol, where did you hear anyone talking about mass conspiracy?

When it's implied that it's made to entice people to spend more and keep trying, I'm going to challenge that theory if I disagree.

The Near Miss Effect isn’t a conspiracy theory, it’s a well documented feature in mobile gaming.

https://www.psychologyofgames.com/2016/09/the-near-miss-effect-and-game-rewards/

The funniest example in this game is when you notice how often the reel shows you 6* Punisher considering he’s in 1/5000 crystals.

Thanks for highlighting the blog and podcast, gonna subscribe as there’s plenty of interesting subject covered.
Also, the goldpool crystal might be head to head with Punisher as worst offenders. 😂

Aburaees

Antsiou said:

Aburaees said:

GroundedWisdom said:

Antsiou said:

GroundedWisdom said:

It's not a mass conspiracy. It's a window into the possibilities. It's a randomly-generated representation of what you can get, and it's meant to have some top outcomes because the actual Drop Rates can't reflect in that spin. There's not enough time.

Lol, where did you hear anyone talking about mass conspiracy?

When it's implied that it's made to entice people to spend more and keep trying, I'm going to challenge that theory if I disagree.

The Near Miss Effect isn’t a conspiracy theory, it’s a well documented feature in mobile gaming.

https://www.psychologyofgames.com/2016/09/the-near-miss-effect-and-game-rewards/

The funniest example in this game is when you notice how often the reel shows you 6* Punisher considering he’s in 1/5000 crystals.

Thanks for highlighting the blog and podcast, gonna subscribe as there’s plenty of interesting subject covered.
Also, the goldpool crystal might be head to head with Punisher as worst offenders. 😂

I agree, I did think of Goldpool as I was writing, but I couldn’t find the drop rate.

It just tickles me to land on gold in the middle of a Goldpool sandwich 😂

The other effect which plays on psychology is when the reel slowly rolls over a rare/popular champ, or stops suddenly before one.

Zeraphan

Aburaees said:

Antsiou said:

Aburaees said:

GroundedWisdom said:

Antsiou said:

GroundedWisdom said:

It's not a mass conspiracy. It's a window into the possibilities. It's a randomly-generated representation of what you can get, and it's meant to have some top outcomes because the actual Drop Rates can't reflect in that spin. There's not enough time.

Lol, where did you hear anyone talking about mass conspiracy?

When it's implied that it's made to entice people to spend more and keep trying, I'm going to challenge that theory if I disagree.

The Near Miss Effect isn’t a conspiracy theory, it’s a well documented feature in mobile gaming.

https://www.psychologyofgames.com/2016/09/the-near-miss-effect-and-game-rewards/

The funniest example in this game is when you notice how often the reel shows you 6* Punisher considering he’s in 1/5000 crystals.

Thanks for highlighting the blog and podcast, gonna subscribe as there’s plenty of interesting subject covered.
Also, the goldpool crystal might be head to head with Punisher as worst offenders. 😂

I agree, I did think of Goldpool as I was writing, but I couldn’t find the drop rate.

It just tickles me to land on gold in the middle of a Goldpool sandwich 😂

The other effect which plays on psychology is when the reel slowly rolls over a rare/popular champ, or stops suddenly before one.

Indeed the psychology on addictive behaviors and gambling is a completely other and totally fascinating topic.

GroundedWisdom

Aburaees said:

GroundedWisdom said:

Antsiou said:

GroundedWisdom said:

It's not a mass conspiracy. It's a window into the possibilities. It's a randomly-generated representation of what you can get, and it's meant to have some top outcomes because the actual Drop Rates can't reflect in that spin. There's not enough time.

Lol, where did you hear anyone talking about mass conspiracy?

When it's implied that it's made to entice people to spend more and keep trying, I'm going to challenge that theory if I disagree.

The Near Miss Effect isn’t a conspiracy theory, it’s a well documented feature in mobile gaming.

https://www.psychologyofgames.com/2016/09/the-near-miss-effect-and-game-rewards/

The funniest example in this game is when you notice how often the reel shows you 6* Punisher considering he’s in 1/5000 crystals.

That's a subjective theory. It's based on the perception of the user, and hasn't been proven at all in this case. I'm quite sure I described the process of randomly generating a variety of outcomes in the pool, and that it's impossible to be a true reflection of the Drop Rates in that spin within that amount of time. Considering some Rates are 0.1% or lower. You'd never see them come up. It's the same as accusing the game of trying to get you because you got excited about what you "almost" got, but as we've pointed out here and Kabam has explained many times, you never "almost" got anything.

Antsiou

GroundedWisdom said:

Aburaees said:

GroundedWisdom said:

Antsiou said:

GroundedWisdom said:

It's not a mass conspiracy. It's a window into the possibilities. It's a randomly-generated representation of what you can get, and it's meant to have some top outcomes because the actual Drop Rates can't reflect in that spin. There's not enough time.

Lol, where did you hear anyone talking about mass conspiracy?

When it's implied that it's made to entice people to spend more and keep trying, I'm going to challenge that theory if I disagree.

The Near Miss Effect isn’t a conspiracy theory, it’s a well documented feature in mobile gaming.

https://www.psychologyofgames.com/2016/09/the-near-miss-effect-and-game-rewards/

The funniest example in this game is when you notice how often the reel shows you 6* Punisher considering he’s in 1/5000 crystals.

That's a subjective theory. It's based on the perception of the user, and hasn't been proven at all in this case. I'm quite sure I described the process of randomly generating a variety of outcomes in the pool, and that it's impossible to be a true reflection of the Drop Rates in that spin within that amount of time. Considering some Rates are 0.1% or lower. You'd never see them come up. It's the same as accusing the game of trying to get you because you got excited about what you "almost" got, but as we've pointed out here and Kabam has explained many times, you never "almost" got anything.

I supposed you have enough evidence and are expert enough on the subject to challenge this
https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/near_miss.pdf

A near missis a special kind of failure to reach a goal, one that comes close to being successful. A shot at a target is said to hit the mark, or to be a near miss, or to go wide. In a game of skill, like shooting, a near miss gives useful feedback and encourages the player by indicating that success may be within reach. By contrast, in games of pure chance, such as lotteries and slot machine games, it gives no information that could be used by a player to in- crease the likelihood of future success. Of course that does not imply that the player's behaviour will be unaffected. Gamblers frequently act as if they think they can influence chance outcomes. Whispering to dice, throwing gently for a low number, choosing a lottery number carefully by using family dates of birth or consulting books of lucky numbers, are common examples of inef- fective actions of this kind. In such cases, the occurrence of a near miss may be taken as an encouraging sign, confirming the player's strategy and raising hopes for future success.
There’s nothing subjective about this.