..... okay so you guys could be right..... considering most are possiable answers but take it from someone who is studying games programing. final year. The dbs arnt made to drop at random..... if they where they would be even more rare, or occur as much as +1s or mets do........ they wouldnt be this stupid to do so, seeing as db are the rarest. There is a pattern and it IS in the amount of kills. But the amont is diffrent for each player. Eachs db you find conisides with the # of kills next to your account name. Many are lucky when they create an account they get the luckly number one next to there account name, where as someone else may get 1000, 100000 1000000000000 1000000000000000 and so on. thats the random part, but its a numerical equation that is created to keep a simple yet hard economy flowing. It makes the psyce of the hunt seem random.... good job i say. It doesnt matter how many mets you get, but each time you find one your kill rate goes back to 0 and you start again, only this time the number becomes bigger. it may go down, depending on the # generator. Many games use random number generators. And they are easy to use. Ie each person has one connected to there account. Its probably hidden in one of the mesh files or dlls out of the way so no one finds it, even super items have random mesh codes...anyway... For example, (and yes i did try this) i made an archer from scrach, didnt hunt with it and kept my kill at 0 and relyed on my troj to get his items. Got to lvl 90 (still 0 kills) (i got my friend to plvl me) with average items to hunt. My first db was on my 6900th kill. My second was on 10 783 kill and my 3rd was on my 30 897 kill. Each time i found one it went from 0. So when i found my first one, my kill rate went from 6900 to 0, and a new number was generated ie 10 783. Hence the reason you have a kill counter! So yeah, it also explain why the game is so goddam big 1.2 gb GRR haha. Yes i spend a lot of time playing games seeing as i make them also, but conquer is one of the hardest out and i love it for that reason. But i dont like the fact that everyone makes hacks, bot are boring, it make the game easy, its like giving up. Just look for the patterns they are there, because games programing 101= Patterns.!!!! peace. BtW this is only an assuption and could possiable be diffrent, but with my bachlor in computer scince on it way next march i think it wise to belive me. I mean by searching for patterns, my theory could be worng, but its how i would do it ............... the first post is good, at least he was trying to break code, insede of thinking like a good "its random" ha