Cyclops Heads dissapeared ???

I just confirmed with my team, and we haven't made any changes to the frequency of Cyclops Heads in the week's patch.

 

yupyup I went through 6 archon swords worth of hunt and got no cyclopes or Minotaur heads

 

It cannot be a plan to have Cyclops Heads set to "very rare", simply because it cannot be a plan to make Hoplite Armbands very rare and expensive. I am therefore not surprised by Meg's post.

 

Many other things stopped looting or huge slowed as well from my bp. Probably they all looted now and in peoples storage.

On the plus side NI been so busy lately ( yay ) that mindark should be able to raise max lootable of many things soon.

 

Something definitely changed. From 15-20 Cyclops heads per 100 peds hunting, to like 0-1 drop in 100 peds hunting. Also Caxocenite is very rare now.

Maybe this wasn't intended, but something IS different and it WILL affect the crafting of the new swords and Hoplite Armbands massively. I for one wouldn't sell Armbands cheap now.

To some of the other points above... WanXiang's comment that the Heads can't be set to Very Rare because it will affect armbands crafting... well, it may not be set to Very Rare, but it is set to Double Secret Rare or something like that. Just like Selenite. And the Selenite problem has never been fixed making the Greaves a very rare and expensive item!

Kitten has an interesting theory about the Heads being hoarded (+1 for creative thinking!!!) but I can't see that. Lystonium, er I mean Praetonium, is still dropping in like 50% of loots and everyone I know has hundreds of Praet in their storage. Same with other Cyclops and Minotaur parts, yet for some mysterious reason heads on both all of a sudden got Extremely Rare.

I guess the owners of already-crafted Philosopher and Archon Swords as well as Hoplite Armbands and Greaves are lucky since these items will be very rarely crafted under the current drop rates. On the flip side, the people that paid big peds for the sword BP's may be just a tad annoyed. If Mino heads disappear (coupled with Purpurite staying very rare) I would think the price on Helmets would rise pretty quickly too.

Perhaps MA saw all the whining on PC Forum about how the new swords will make all other melee obsolete and they made a "little" tweak to the loots.

For now, Cyclops Heads are the new Dunkel.

 

Praetonium is obviously an UL amount lootable just like eye oil lyst and normal oil ^.^ only some item have max lootable set is what I think

 

I have been on the line with Ma a few times over the last 2 days addressing this possible issue. According to them, they have not touched the loot pool or the frequency of drop rate. I understand the player frustration, but they have shown me that players are looting them and the qty is set to auto replenish when it reaches a specific number. As of 12 noon EST today, there has been over 100 Cyclops heads looted since yesterday. I received the information straight from a MA Manager. So I can only thing that players are getting them and not telling anyone and hording them, or bad luck. And I hate to say the luck, I think its the other. I will still look into this issue as much as possible, and Meg and I will keep you posted.

 

Thanks for the quick reply as always. But I still surprised that they don't have any concern about the unlimited blueprint for unlimited SIB swords with such high eco. I hope there will not be any more unlimited blueprints for other unlimited SIB guns, that would change the economy of the whole universe tremendously

 

omg best infos answer ever thank you and giant huggles sent * HUGGLES MMMPPPHHH *

 

Thank you for looking into this and I appreciate the feedback!

Maybe I'm being obtuse, but I just don't get MA's response. So 100 heads have been looted in the last 24 hours and yet nothing has changed?? If only 100 have dropped in the last 24 hours that is only 4 per hour for all Cyclops hunters combined. Though the evidence is anecdotal, that is WAY lower than people were reporting before Tuesday.

Is the Cyclops head loot pool so small that one or two crafters can horde them up and affect the drops that severely and that quickly? And if the answer to that question is yes, doesn't that raise some issues as to the viability of crafting NI and AG items? Is that why Cyclops heads, Minotaur heads, Selenite, Purpurite, Moldavite, etc. have all seemed to have dried up lately? Personally I can't see how an economy built on extreme scarcity of key items will work out very well.

 

There is a life beyond Cyclops Heads :)

 

LOL where is the name of this seller? Inquiring minds want to know :)

 

I recommend adding a 8 hour repeatable "kill 100 cyclopes" mission that has a reward of a cyclops head ^.^