Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-13282344-20130912224059/@comment-11128765-20130913193147

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!

For 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!