Hot Air Ballooning Prizes

• Rydian wrote on 2015-06-26 01:12
  As requested by Esileruf, here's the chances of getting the random prizes in hot-air ballooning.
  First is the category, then the results (group 1 and then group 2).
  
  
  [SIZE="4"]1-5: [/SIZE]
  MP 10: 20%
  Bandage: 10%
  ---
  Stamina 30: 20%
  Ballista Bolts: 10%
  
  
  [SIZE="4"]6-10:[/size]
  Handmade Bandage: 20%
  Burst Soldier: 10%
  ---
  Handmade Bandage: 20%
  Sunlight Herb: 10%
  
  
  [SIZE="4"]11-15:[/size]
  Base Herb: 20%
  Bloody Herb: 10%
  ---
  Handmade Ballista Bolts: 20%
  Mana Magician: 20%
  
  
  [SIZE="4"]16-20:[/size]
  Stamina 50: 10%
  Snake Gauntlet: 15%
  ---
  Large Kit: 20%
  Flint: 20%
  
  
  [SIZE="4"]21-25:[/size]
  Fine Silk: 20%
  Ancient Taming Cane: 10%
  ---
  Fine Handmade Bolt: 20%
  Poison Archer: 20%
  
  
  [SIZE="4"]26-30:[/size]
  Iron Ingot: 10%
  Fine Handmade Bandage: 10%
  ---
  Finest Silk: 20%
  Likability Potion: 10%
  
  
  [SIZE="4"]31-35:[/size]
  HP 50: 10%
  Giant Bird Leg Boots: 10%
  ---
  MP 30: 15%
  Silver Ore Fragment: 10%
  
  [SIZE="4"]36-40:[/size]
  Flint: 15%
  Tikka Wood Taming Cane: 10%
  ---
  Mana Witch: 10%
  Gold ore Fragment: 6%
  
  
  [SIZE="4"]41-45:[/size]
  Mana Herb: 10%
  Ring Bow: 5%
  ---
  Finest Handmade Bolts: 15%
  Wood Board: 5%
  
  
  [SIZE="4"]46-50:[/size]
  Fine Fabric: 10%
  Poison Hunter: 10%
  ---
  Finest Handmade Bandage: 20%
  Finest Fabric: 4%
  
  
  [SIZE="4"]51+:[/size]
  Poison Herb: 8%
  Lightning Warrior's Helmet: 2%
  Hebona Shoes: 1%
  Thames Plate Boots: 1%
  ---
  Burst Warrior: 8%
  Finest Leather: 3%
  Arbalest: 1%
  Hawk: 3%
  Viscount: 3%
  
  
  [SIZE="1"]I did this manually and may have typo'd somewhere so if something seems off I can double-check specifically.[/SIZE]
• X wrote on 2015-06-26 19:44
  What do the groups do?
• Rydian wrote on 2015-06-26 22:13
  Oh group 1 is prize number 3, group 2 is prize number 4.
  Prizes 1 and 2 are always gold and EXP.
• X wrote on 2015-06-26 22:17
  So for 5 stars, you get:
  - gold
  - exp
  - a 20% chance of MP pot, 10% of bandage, and 70% of nothing (randomly chosen)
  - A 20% chance of stamina pot, 10% of ballista bolt, and 70% of nothing (randomly chosen)
  
  right?
• Rydian wrote on 2015-06-26 23:45
  Yup, that's how it goes.
  
  Apparently rafting rewards were like this as well before being changed, though I don't think I actually did rafting before it got redone.
• Osayidan wrote on 2015-06-27 00:30
  Yeah rafting was the same way. It also didn't store stars in your inventory.
  Ballooning should have been changed this way as well, much less annoying.
• SozenCratosFocker wrote on 2015-06-27 01:17
  I'm prety sure rafting had way lower chances of nothing being chosen.
• Snowie Stormflower wrote on 2015-07-01 04:36

  Quote from Osayidan;1280108:

  Yeah rafting was the same way. It also didn't store stars in your inventory.
  Ballooning should have been changed this way as well, much less annoying.

  
  
  Except at one point in time, Rafting's rewards weren't exactly "random", they just changed based on values once every hour or longer.
  For example if you saw a fine leather in your rewards when you got 8 big stars and 3 small ones, you would continue to get fine leathers for every time you hit the exact same score, for a set amount of time. Rafting rewards were based on time instead of RNG...Well, maybe there was RNG but it only changed every hour or so.
  
  That's just what I remember from observation, I unfortunately had little to no Ballooning abilities at the time and couldn't check if it was the same back then.
• Rynn wrote on 2015-07-01 04:38
  ^was it? I mean back then people just talked to ego weapon enough times so that tipping suit or desired reward would show up. Doesn't seem like a time-related event.
• Snowie Stormflower wrote on 2015-07-01 04:57

  Quote from Rynn;1280456:

  ^was it? I mean back then people just talked to ego weapon enough times so that tipping suit or desired reward would show up. Doesn't seem like a time-related event.

  
  
  Wasn't the ego-talking only used for ballooning though?
  
  I used the rafting method I mentioned to make a lot of money back when it still had that old reward system, and a friend of mine used to tag along for it. Not many other rafters back then though.
• Rynn wrote on 2015-07-01 04:59
  It was also for rafting. Rafting, then talking to ego in order to get a tipping suit to NPC was a big source of income back then.
• Tiwo wrote on 2015-07-01 21:29
  what does talking to an ego have to do with anything?
• Rynn wrote on 2015-07-01 21:59
  It used to reset the rafting/ballooning rewards until the update where they introduced viscount/hawk, then it was patched.
• callback wrote on 2015-07-02 13:54

  Quote from Rynn;1280550:

  It used to reset the rafting/ballooning rewards until the update where they introduced viscount/hawk, then it was patched.

  
  
  In other words it was originally client-sided RNG, and it was easy to just advance the frame until the result showed up without needing to know anything else about it, especially since the desired result was not exceptionally rare.