Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-13282344-20130912224059/@comment-11490363-20130913201629

Piggy76 wrote: Where is that splash screen? I can never find it... but I think Mobage only states "increased capture rate from Hard-5". Two comments on that: it is possible they mean only the mob rates increase and not the bosses. Also, it is possible that the capture rates are better for Hard-5 onwards, but that they do not escalate. Or both even!

During Covert Ops, yomitchano pulled the capture rates straight out of the source code (apparently) but I've not seen that since and would love to know it for the later eps (namely this one!). In general it indicated a ~10% (upto 15% at easy stage) on mobs and no worse than 5% on bosses. But that was a wacky event and I've not seen the same info since.

either way, looping Hard-5 is my lucky charm as it was for netting Hotspots a month ago. Fingers continue to be crossed! I don't know that the RNG would be in the code here, but rather at their server. Otherwise we could just hack it to 100% easily. It is trivial to do that. Unless they are doing some kind of detection of changes in the code. It just makes sense that it is at the server, then no one can hack it.

For a previous event, I remember doing ~100 runs of H5 and up and got 0 nets of the EVO boss. At 5% expected odds, the odds of that are crazy! 0.95^100 = 0.6% of all users that have 100 runs. At 1% it is a bit (factor of 100 almost) more likely: 0.99^100 = 36.67% of all people that have runs of 100. I am leaning towards 1% myself.