Anyone know details on mLootProps drop_properties values?

Aye, absence makes the head remember more favourably

Seemed more concrete in my head, but I think that is the one. I guess just simple fiddling for a few hours is needed

Necro-posting, sorry.

I’m trying to decipher lootprops.ini
After reading the info referred to in this post, I think this is what I come up with.

Here’s an entry in lootprops.ini.

[mLootProps]
nickname = commodity_gold
drop_properties = 100, 0, 7870, 1, 150, 150

I think the values mean the following:

drop_properties = <drop weight=“” 0-100=“”>, <min player=“” value=“” creds?=“”>, <max player=“” value=“” creds=“”>, <min drop=“”>, <max drop=“”>, <avg drop=“”>.

Does that look correct?

The way I read gold is that 100% of the time, a player with min creds of 0 and max creds of 7870 will see an average gold drop of 150units? but no more than 150 and no less than 1.

Is that correct?

What if the player has more than 8k creds? They get nothing?
Not my experience in game.</avg></max></min></max></min></drop>

According to what was written above, that’s a ptough reference, not credits.

Well, yeah…
But, doesn’t ptough just tell you what rank you are depending on your credits level? Or assets level?

ptough_graph_pt = 11000, 1
ptough_graph_pt = 13750, 2
ptough_graph_pt = 17228, 3
ptough_graph_pt = 20845, 4
ptough_graph_pt = 25396, 5
ptough_graph_pt = 30475, 6
ptough_graph_pt = 36576, 7
ptough_graph_pt = 43891, 8
ptough_graph_pt = 52183, 9
ptough_graph_pt = 58967, 10
ptough_graph_pt = 66632, 11

for example, i can take a brand new player on my server (rank 1) and send them 50k credits and they immediately jump to rank 10. Rank 10 is about 58967 in assets the way I read it. 5k startup cash, your starflier with the Flyswatter Mk Is, and the additional 50k I sent them gives them an asset value of between 55k and 66k making them rank 10. So, that seems consistent with my understanding.

But…

On a vanilla server Nomads don’t drop weapons until you’re rank 34+.
ptough (rank?) 34 is about 1.4 mill creds.
ptough_graph_pt = 1425449, 34

Here’s the lootprop for the Nomad Cannon and Blaster
[mLootProps]
nickname = special_nomad_gun01
drop_properties = 10, 646965, 646965, 0, 2, 1

[mLootProps]
nickname = special_nomad_gun02
drop_properties = 10, 646965, 646965, 0, 2, 1

Well below the ptough of 34. So, I’m not seeing any pattern that I can readily identify.

Someone posted recently about this I am sure - and they, or someone, posted an accurate description of what the values actually mean.

I did search for such a post but this post is the one that seemed to most closely address the issue.

I’ll look again.

drop_properties = chance, min_worth, worth_mult, min, max1, max2

chance is the percentage the drop will occur (i.e. divided by 100)
min_worth is the minimum worth you must have for the drop to occur
worth_mult, see below
min is the minimum number to drop
max1 and max2 are the maximum to drop

Some pseudocode probably won’t help, but it’s easier than explaining it.

worth is your current worth
rand is a random number between 0 and 1
target_count is how many items the droppee has of this loot
count is how many items to drop

count = (worth - min_worth) / worth_mult
if (count >= target_count)
  count = target_count
if (count + min > max1)
  count = max1
else
  count += min
if (count >= target_count)
  count = target_count
prob = chance * count
count = floor( prob )
prob -= count
if (rand < prob)
  ++count
if (count >= max2)
  count = max2

I think that actually makes sense. I’m gonna bookmark this thread.

Thanks Adoxa (All hail adoxa, may he live forever)