Drops determined by IP address?

Ok, does anyone know if item drops are determined by your IP address? If so, how would you go about changing it?
Seriously, I play on my pc, I get crap, my boyfriend plays on his- DB drops like every other week!

there is no such thing about IP determine the drop rates. its totally random

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Originally Posted by jchan6407 there is no such thing about IP determine the drop rates. its totally random

Well then my randomness sucks more than most. 1 1/2 yrs of playing, never a super or db drop. Ever. Avg hunting time per day: 5 hours.

four years, never a super drop


just keep crossing your fingers lass

It is definitally random, IP has nothing to do with drops.

Yeah, just hope for a good drop! =P

no such thing as ip adress determained drops

If there was IP related drops; what would they do? Go through and decide every single possible IP and be like
"OK That IP is going to have good drops"
"Fine- OMG THAT IP IS GOING TO SUCK!! MUAHAHA"
plus there is tons and tons of IPs...

3 years and i've gotin about 10 super and about 30 dbs lol my luck

lol

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Originally Posted by hok30 If there was IP related drops; what would they do? Go through and decide every single possible IP and be like "OK That IP is going to have good drops" "Fine- OMG THAT IP IS GOING TO SUCK!! MUAHAHA" plus there is tons and tons of IPs...

Well, random numbers in computing are all based on initial numbers, generally this is time but there is no reason why all or part of an IP address could not be used in this calculation, for example:

'IP = 217.18.23.117

Dim Calc as Integer 'This will be a whole number
Calc = 217 * 23 / TimeGetTime - (117 / 18) = x
If Calc = x then
'Drop DB
Else if Calc > x
'DropCrap
Else if Calc = y
'Drop Random super
Endif
'ETC

However no same person would use this to generate random numbers on a mass scale.

There is no such thing as random for computers :D

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Originally Posted by moonbabydragonfly Ok, does anyone know if item drops are determined by your IP address? If so, how would you go about changing it? Seriously, I play on my pc, I get crap, my boyfriend plays on his- DB drops like every other week!

well i think you are huting on the wrong spot try birds with a 120+ archer before i was 120 always bad drops now im lvl 125 archer-trojan-archer and im getting more then 4 dbs in a month+many super and + drops and afcourse im farming accounts ^^ (water farming)

TQ drops are wierd, no dubt about that but i have no idea how they do it.

Btw iv gotten like 5 dbs in 2 and a half year of playing.

I noticed my warrior was lucky it found 2 dbs in 1 week and found gems and mets a lot in lab like 2 met scrolls ea lvl.

its all determined by random... but.. i have noticed, about lvl 80 to 110 archers hunting by themselves gets a lot of mets and supers.. i've made 10 archers (lvl 120) and they all got good stuff about those lvls... also.. stated before by someone, there is not such thing as a random number on a computer. The computer just picks from a list of seeds that are determined by variables such as time.. also, if tq used ips, there is 4,228,250,625 possible ips in IPv4, which is the current world standard.. so tq would have fun going through tons of ips. Even if they just filtered it by the ones that connect to their server, i know at least 100 people in my city that play conquer.. plus theres most of brazil...

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Originally Posted by vbcoderx Even if they just filtered it by the ones that connect to their server.

But they wouldn't have to, if the IP was used dynamicly (ip xyz connected, then store + use it) in a calculation such as drop rate. As I said in an earlier post though I think it's very unlikely they would do so.

The calculation could be based on anything at all involving numbers, could involve anything from the usual suspect, time to the number of characters in your name or even the ascii values of characters in the name used, there are just too many possible solutions to guess, the only way any one will EVER find out is by viewing the source code :D

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Originally Posted by Some-Guy Well, random numbers in computing are all based on initial numbers, generally this is time but there is no reason why all or part of an IP address could not be used in this calculation, for example: 'IP = 217.18.23.117 Dim Calc as Integer 'This will be a whole number Calc = 217 * 23 / TimeGetTime - (117 / 18) = x If Calc = x then 'Drop DB Else if Calc > x 'DropCrap Else if Calc = y 'Drop Random super Endif 'ETC However no same person would use this to generate random numbers on a mass scale. There is no such thing as random for computers :D

I agree with your whole post. However, with certain calculations you can get pretty close to random.