Calculating loot chance

[cire2003]

Let's say we got that into a monster file.

Monster A
    <item id="AAAA" chance="100000"/>
    <item id="BBBB" chance="50000"/>
    <item id="CCCC" chance="25000">
    <item id="DDDD" chance="17500">
    <item id="EEEE" chance="8750">

My question is, how can you calculate the chance that an item out of that list get out. I looked up in the C code and find out, correct me if im wrong, that it do a sum of all chance in monster loot to make a choice. After that, thats where i dont understand.

If we got that instead.

Monster B
    <item id="AAAA" chance="50000"/>
    <item id="BBBB" chance="25000"/>
    <item id="CCCC" chance="17500">
    <item id="DDDD" chance="8750">
    <item id="EEEE" chance="4875">

Does the item EEEE would be more hard to loot then into the monster A?

Dunno if it's 100% understandable but ill try to modify my explaination if some1 doesnt understand

Tks

 

[Blue Charizard]

Its simple:

100000 = 100.000% (One hundred point zero zero zero percent)

1000 = 1.000% (One point zero zero zero percent)

1 = 0.001% (Zero point zero zero one percent)

8750 = 8.75%

17500 = 17.5%

And so on.

This defines the chance of the item dropping when the monster is killed.

 

[cire2003]

tks for help

rep++

 

[Elaney]

helped me alot also added rep also

 

[Artii]

Ohoo you earned some rep points, gimmie too lol

 

[Guitar Freak]

Its simple:

100000 = 100.000% (One hundred point zero zero zero percent)

1000 = 1.000% (One point zero zero zero percent)

1 = 0.001% (Zero point zero zero one percent)

8750 = 8.75%

17500 = 17.5%

And so on.

This defines the chance of the item dropping when the monster is killed.

Sorry for bumping up but I have a question regarding your post.

How does the "Loot Rate" from config.lua affect those percentages?

Is it like if I put 2x on config.lua, then if I set an item to "10000" (10%) then it would turn to 20% dropping chance?

Or how?

 

[Qbee]

@up
Thats right