well so far I've gotten more Regulus from ore nodes than I have Heartwood that's a fact. I don't need data when the facts speak from them selves. even now I'm on bleakrock and I've gotten a lot of Regulus more than heartwood and that's from 100 nodes.

Data and facts in this case have the same meaning.

100 nodes means you have a pretty large margin of error. RNG is after all random. You can flip a coin 100 times and get 60 heads and 40 tails, and it wouldn't be all that rare (It's about 1 in 95). But flip a coin 1 million times, if you get 600,000 heads and 400,000 tails, now you know your coin is weighted. You just simply can't make a conclusion like that off of 100 nodes. Probability of random events just doesn't work that way.

There are many in this forum who have hundreds of thousands if not millions of nodes collected. While I don't personally keep track of bonus mats received from overland harvesting nodes, I'm sure there's somebody who has. And I'm confident that they would have let us know that they found a statistically significant difference between the drops.

Note: We're not saying that the drop rate isn't bad (in fact a low drop rate will make it more likely to get widely disparate results). Just that there's no evidence that the drop rate is different for heartwood than for other materials.

I've long advocated that the furniture mats should be added to the loot table for surveys from their respective sources.

dragonlord500 wrote: »

Before anyone ELSE posts here you people should compare the price of a Stack of Regulus and a stack of Heartwood. There is a solid reason why they are so vastly different.

Yup, there is.

Heartwood is used in a ton of desirable furnishing plans.

Regulus is not.

Supply is the same. Demand is much, much higher for Heartwood.

I think ill rest my case now. nothing is going change anyway.