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Possible account-wide Star Fragment ransack rate.
Dec 6th, 2021 at 12:51pm
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So I've been farming the shit out of star fragments because I really enjoy legendifying all the old epic gear I have been hoarding for years. I know the saga is no big deal but I found it easier to run The Haunting of Saltmarsh and Under Cover of Darkness(mostly because I actually enjoy them).

So of course I ransacked all chests on my main pretty fast.

Then i switched over to alts.

There's been a rather serious drop-off in drops. I suspect SSG might have some kind of account-wide ransack going on to keep people from getting them too fast. Though exactly why they would do this I cannot say.
  

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Reply #1 - Dec 6th, 2021 at 2:04pm
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The saga reward includes a choice for several star fragments. The last time I did the legendary saga, I got a choice of 6 star fragments. I took it.
  

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Yeah I did the saga a couple times. It works ok. I mainly started playing just those two quests because I am dual-boxing and dragging an alt all across slatmarsh is my idea of hell. Also the alt can't pass the saga reward fragments.
  

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Reply #3 - Dec 6th, 2021 at 4:30pm
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noamineo wrote on Dec 6th, 2021 at 3:54pm:
Also the alt can't pass the saga reward fragments.

I was able to put mine in the shared bank.
  

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Reply #4 - Dec 6th, 2021 at 5:18pm
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Standing Stone Games wrote on Dec 6th, 2021 at 4:30pm:
I was able to put mine in the shared bank.


Do we not know what dual-boxing is? I am playing 2 separate accounts at the same time. The fragments are BtA, so I can't give the fragments collected on my second account to the account that actually uses them.
  

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Reply #5 - Dec 6th, 2021 at 6:53pm
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noamineo wrote on Dec 6th, 2021 at 12:51pm:
There's been a rather serious drop-off in drops. I suspect SSG might have some kind of account-wide ransack going on to keep people from getting them too fast. Though exactly why they would do this I cannot say.
                   


Why?  One of two reasons.  Malice or stupidity.  SSG has done both in the past.
  
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Reply #6 - Dec 7th, 2021 at 1:43am
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Notanarc wrote on Dec 6th, 2021 at 6:53pm:
Why?  One of two reasons.  Malice or stupidity.  SSG has done both in the past.




My current line of reasoning is as follows: sometimes, extremely rarely(in fact, so rarely as to make me suspect it actually does not happen), the star fragment can be replaced by a Nebular Fragment, which produces the "perfected" versions of minor artifacts. The ransack, I suspect, is the result of them trying to make Nebula Fragments impossible to get.

So, malice AND stupidity.
  

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Reply #7 - Dec 7th, 2021 at 12:16pm
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noamineo wrote on Dec 6th, 2021 at 5:18pm:
Do we not know what dual-boxing is? I am playing 2 separate accounts at the same time. The fragments are BtA, so I can't give the fragments collected on my second account to the account that actually uses them.

Sorry. It wasn't clear, to me at least, that you were dual-boxing at the time.
  

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Reply #8 - Dec 7th, 2021 at 1:36pm
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Standing Stone Games wrote on Dec 7th, 2021 at 12:16pm:
Sorry. It wasn't clear, to me at least, that you were dual-boxing at the time.


That's ok, I didn't speak very clearly. I also didn't mean for my reply to come off as so condescending. I'm sorry about that.
  

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Reply #9 - Dec 8th, 2021 at 8:22pm
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noamineo wrote on Dec 6th, 2021 at 12:51pm:
There's been a rather serious drop-off in drops. I suspect SSG might have some kind of account-wide ransack going on to keep people from getting them too fast. Though exactly why they would do this I cannot say.


This is beyond the capabilities of the Rockstars(R) of SSG. Steelshit(R) might wank reading this statement everyday though.
  
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Reply #10 - Dec 8th, 2021 at 8:26pm
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Hardcore_Girl wrote on Dec 8th, 2021 at 8:22pm:
This is beyond the capabilities of the Rockstars(R) of SSG. Steelshit(R) might wank reading this statement everyday though.


No way Shitstar has to do his own wanking. One Discord post and the sycophants would come running.
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Reply #11 - Dec 9th, 2021 at 10:27am
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Shinyshoes wrote on Dec 8th, 2021 at 8:26pm:
No way Shitstar has to do his own wanking. One Discord post and the sycophants would come running.


No joke!  Those idiot cocksuckers on Ague Mort’s fanboi discord will swarm like piranhas any time a dev posts. 

It’s like Japanese porn…censored not for decency, but to mask the small dicks in the room.

Oh, and somebody tell that drooling imbecile Djinn (or Djumbass, or whatever the fuck that shriveled cunt’s name is) that every time that dev cock sucker posits his piss soaked opinions about anything DDO, he looks like every other retard standing in the rain, waiting for the short bus with his fly at half mast.
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Reply #12 - Dec 9th, 2021 at 2:50pm
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Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz wrote on Dec 9th, 2021 at 10:27am:
It’s like Japanese porn…censored not for decency, but to mask the small dicks in the room.


Smiley Smiley Smiley
  

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