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Once upon a time, a programmer was really hating Luck Materials; those gave him goosebumps and yellow liver. And because he thought it was not enough to just set the drop rate to 0 (in case another programmer would like to make this possible by raising the drop rate above 0), he just went through the "bother" to add a single hardcoded condition that would prevent Luck Materials from dropping like any other tool. More seriously, I can totally see a little story like we all went through at some point: Moderator: So a player reported finding a luck material this morning... in forest on a booma in very hard. Random team member: Wut ? I thought we said "no luck material in the tools" ! Was that so hard to set a drop rate to 0 ? Programmer A: B... but we did ! I have no clue how the hell it can still drop... Random team member: So... No one knows where this bug comes from ? Programmer B: No, and it's probably gonna take a while to found out what's going on... Bored programmer C: Maaaaan! Just add a lil' if else here, say it's 0 whatever we feed it and hope no one find it again. How nasty is that ? he he :Ð

Well, yes and no. Luck materials indeed don't drop at all from common drops. But, a random material isn't rolled. Rather a random tool is rolled from a list, with certain materials having a chance. Here's the common tool list for ultimate episode 1: As you can see, TP materials also never drop, even though they are a regular green box. But that's because they have 0% chance. However, what you said is really interesting, because with psobb, the server is 100% in charge of the drops. In the end, common drops and rare drops use the same packet to let the client know an item dropped. And I knew for a fact the server doesn't check redbox flag, so it had to be something else. So I dug through the code to eventually find this: Basically this means "if the tool number is 23, the rate is 0". Now if you start counting this table and start with 0, number 23 is luck materials. With that code disabled, and the luck material rate cranked up, luck materials drop just fine, even from boxes. This change will be included with the next Destiny update. From then on luck materials will drop everywhere according to sega rates.

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