So how do you get a global?

Just keep on pew-pew-pewing. Even tiny mobs can drop a global. It's supposed to be easier to global when there is more activity on the planet, because more money is being pumped around.

 

It doesn't have to be in the same area, though. I've found that huntying during the Eomon/Longtooth event typically means more/easier globals, even if I'm on the other side of the planet shooting Berycleds and Cornundacaudas.

 

Dumbed down to basics;

When you kill a mob, a multiplier is applied to your cost to kill (a lot of theology over the years on rather cost to kill, or based on mob hp, or a combination of both.... regardless your religion in later years the slider has moved more towards cost and less towards hp in an effort to appear more stable, but in effect punishes players who are more eco oriented(way more theories on loot there i won't go into))

So suppose you kill a mob that cost you 1 ped to kill (we should focus on large numbers, many kills, averages of cost, averages of loot, but this is about globals which is a single event so...)
(numbers pulled out of my but as I havent been playing for a while, you can easily observe the reality for any given activity though by disabling the loot window and reading the values of loot that scroll in the upper left of your screen)

Cost to kill, 1 ped
Loot 0.0ped (is that still a thing?)
Loot 0.8ped typical
Loot 0.5ped crap
Loot ~1.00ped sometimes
Loot ~5ped not often
Loot ~50ped rare
Loot ~500ped very rare

Do that 1000 times and you will have roughly 900ped worth of loot, get pedantic and you can calculate the odds of getting each multiplier in any given kill.
Some religions focus purely on numbers and probability, other religions focus on individual effect. But think about this, if you spend 1000 ped and have 900 in loot and had 2x 50ped globals, that leaves 800ped of loot divided among 998 looting events, basically all of them would be 0.80 ped....
A more likely makeup of those 1000 looting events would be with 0 loots over 50ped and maybe a dozen in the 5ped range.

So 1ped mobs can and do global, even get big 3didget loots fairly often, it is because 1000s of them are killed per day (and not by you)... it's just how the numbers play out.

Now bump up your game to 5 ped per kill mobs, the same kill 'cycle' will cost you 5000ped instead of 1000, instead of 900ped of loot you will get 4500ped of loot ($50 lost instead of $10) but the loot multipliers will follow similar (not exactly) rules, so you will get more globals and more excitement at the cost of more risk.

Now bump it up to 10ped per kill, your similar kill 'cycle' is 10k ped and you are loosing $100, but instead of getting a dozen or so 5ped loots, you get a dozen or so globals, and every once in a while (once in many many cycles of 10k ped) you get a 4 or 5 diget ped loot.

Through the years players have requested more or less volatility in loot so it is something that changes (i believe) in the background from time to time, or perhaps even constantly to balance the system and player excitement. No loot mobs was one way to increase volatility, by having some mobs with no loot you could have the higher multiplier mobs more often, etc....

As a general rule, the lower the hp/cost to kill the more volatile (to add excitement for mobs that would otherwise never have high loots) and less volatile for higher hp/cost to kill mobs where a string of no looters would wreck a player for a month's budget in a single sitting.

Perhaps the easiest way to understand how it works, is to craft 100ped worth of a 10pec per click blueprint and watch the results in real time. Move the slider and do it again, then think about how that slider can correlate to different mobs etc..... nothing is black and white, they keep it secretive and changing for a reason, but you can get a good general idea and feel for how it works that way.

For me, and many, the way to remove emotion from the gamble, and to see what does and doesn't work, or to gain confidence in the system is to keep detailed logs. You can find some of my old ones here or on planetcalypso forum (i cant remember which) I had a drone hunting log and a merp hunting log, both of which were very detailed (at least in my memory) and were the basis for my confidence in spending more in the game during my higher activity years.


***Some interesting experiments
Controlled tests on a mob you know the standard loot multipliers for
1. Shoot a mob a few times and drag it to a turret to die.
2. Bring a mob to near death and let it regenerate to 90%(not 100%) and then kill it completely.
3. Do the same thing but let it regenerate for sure to 100%
4. Do the same but leave radar range
5. Use an amplifier that is way overpowered for the weapon you are using
6. Use a weapon you are not in the SIB range for
get creative and figure out other interesting things to experiment with

You have a couple of goals when experimenting with loot and the game,
How do I keep my return averages up?
How do I loot higher markup items or resources?
Are those two goals mutually exclusive?

Would you give up high markup resources to average 99% returns? (you still get skills and fun.....)
Would you sacrifice 5-10% off of your returns to get an extra 10% in markup?
Where is the sweet spot for you? How do you achieve that in your game play?

 

You managed to get a global in the meantime?

 

We got to recruit a couple of more members and go on a soc hunt soon. We should be able to get a team global at least :)