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#9  Let's Dance! The More you Know Did you know that multiple chocobo tunes play during encounters with Pink Puffs? Did you know that the chances of encountering a group of Pink Puffs is only 1/64? And the chance that one will drop a Pink tail is 1/64? That means that your chance of getting a Pink tail from that battle is 1/1024!! Keep on fighting! Also, if you are on that rare drop quest, you can also win the Imp Summon from Tricksters in the same room as Pink Puffs! You may come out with something. |
08-01-2005, 08:41 AM
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| | I've always wondered-- is it 1/64 period, or 1/64 if they drop something? If it's the latter, please lie to me. Ooh, thanks, I didn't know that. I only fight those things when I need to use Rydia's Asura to heal (to conserve Rosa's magic, because I have a limited number of cabins and Rydia can psych those imps afterward). I guess I'll try fighting them more. May as well. I'm keeping myself entertained by reading while I walk around, and keeping the screen just enough in the corner of my eye that I notice when I go into battle. Right now I'm in the middle of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms . So, it isn't completely mindless. |
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08-02-2005, 09:17 AM
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| Banned  | Speaking of Hemingway, you do know about the Hemingway's store, right? On the Moon? After fighting in the path to the Core, you get a hellovalotta money, and you can put it to good use. I ended up with 99 Elixers, 99 Ether2s, 3x 99 Ether1s...it's great. |
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08-02-2005, 04:59 PM
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 | Humingway, actually, because they hum, but close enough.  |
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08-03-2005, 10:06 PM
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| | See, that's why I'm having a hard time understanding this. If there really is a 1/64 chance they'll drop a tail, that means the odds of them dropping are the same odds as finding one in a random encounter. Well, I've fought countless random encounters. It really isn't even that hard to find them. I play for about two hours per day and in that time I usually fight 3-5 of them. There have been three times now where I've actually fought two pinkpuff battles in a row. So why no tail? I sure as heck have beaten more than 64 pinkpuff groups. I know statistics don't really work out so that you're guarenteed one after 64 battles, but then again, when I first started looking for the things I counted my battles. I found a PP group exactly 64 battles in, then another at 32, and again at 128. So maybe those numbers actually are accurate for the game. But whether they are or not, 1/64 doesn't seem to me like it should be taking this long. I don't know. Maybe someone with a better grasp on math can explain this to me. I don't know how I passed my stats course, but I definitely didn't deserve to. The only thing I remember is "null hypothesis." |
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08-05-2005, 06:33 AM
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| | It's the same as getting one of the rare summons or a rare item. I'm sure you fought way more that 64 groups of impish creatures and probably never got Imp, right? Think about all of the time you spent trying to get the extra summons then think about how less frequent encounters with Pink Puffs are and you'll start to fathom the rareness of the Pink Tail. |
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08-05-2005, 08:00 AM
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