Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-10276925-20130831002217/@comment-9200727-20130831160353

Ranoake wrote: PRAXISZ wrote: You should start collecting Elite cards. You will then notice how the bridge acts differently once you begin maintaining halves of cards in your base waiting for the other half. I do in fact. The odds are low, but that is a different animal completely. I would guess the odds there are 1 in 1000 medals. That is generally what my experience shows, though in one pull of 50 medals I did get 2 R4s.

Considering that there are many elites to get, I am doing just fine with 12 out of 36 'elites' obtained. I quoted elites because what I really mean is an R4 that is not an episode card, and not all of them are marked 'elite'. I have only had 2 duplicates I think. Not that far from expected value there either.

That said, during an episode I wonder how they differentiate between episode cards and older ones. If they share that 1 out of 1000 percentage or if each one is 1 in 1000. Very hard to know without looking at the code for such low odds. 50/50 odds are easier to verify than 1 in 1000. Yes, they are separate. My only comparison regardless of the rate is that your cyberdex is scanned in both cases to determine what cards to "seemingly" randomly give you. ^^ Just one man's opinion. I do not have any source code to support my theory. All I have is my experience bridging 10,000s of medals.