how do the game make choice on who to assign ectos to?

rugal nuker

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2005

E/Mo

lets say,do a dual uw run,how do the game decides who this ectos goes too when a ecto drops? and can a person get 2 ectos in a roll?

Mathias Deathwater

Mathias Deathwater

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2005

In a maze of twisty passages, all alike

Fifteen Over Fifty

I'm pretty sure it's just random, you can get two of anything else in a roll, so I don't think ectos are an exception, just rare.

eom

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

W/N

it's 50/50 depending on your character name --- if it starts with a-m, you get it.

rugal nuker

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2005

E/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by eom
it's 50/50 depending on your character name --- if it starts with a-m, you get it.
>.< wtf? please tell me u r kidding ^^

Valerius

Valerius

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2005

Canada

R/

it's completely random... if u have 2 players in the group... 50% chance the item that drops is urs... has nothing to do with ur name...

lyra_song

lyra_song

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Oct 2005

R/Mo

i was doing a duo with my me/ne (21 second SV, 29 dmg SS) with leslie from xD and after the end of one run:

Les: 4 Phantom Keys, 1 ecto
Me: 3 Gold Weapons

Sereng Amaranth

Sereng Amaranth

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

The Amazon Basin [AB]

I know for a fact that my elementalist cannot get shards.

Lord Cooper

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

Black Death Knights

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by rugal nuker
and can a person get 2 ectos in a roll?
[random comment] i had 2 cheese in a roll once... [/random comment]

FrogDevourer

FrogDevourer

on a GW break until C4

Join Date: Feb 2005

In your shadow

Servants of Fortuna

All your ectos are belong to me.

Seriously it's random just like all drops.

chippxero

chippxero

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

norfolk

Super Anti Rabbit Squad [SARS]

Mo/Me

Spin 4 times while in combat clockwise for ectos in UW and 2 times anti-clockwise in FoW for shards.

Pompeyfan

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2005

Isle of Wight

DVDF

R/

The game checks to see if I'm in the party - then assigns the ecto to someone else.

Mordakai

Mordakai

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Kyhlo

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompeyfan
The game checks to see if I'm in the party - then assigns the ecto to someone else.
LOL.

In a related question, how many monsters do you usually have to kill to get an Ecto drop?

I was in the UW for 3 hours on Friday night, and not a single Ecto dropped for anyone in the party.

Ruin

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mordakai
LOL.

In a related question, how many monsters do you usually have to kill to get an Ecto drop?

I was in the UW for 3 hours on Friday night, and not a single Ecto dropped for anyone in the party.
It's not a matter of how many. It's completely random. You could get an ecto from the first Aatxe you kill, or some random monster in the furthest reaches of the UW.

quickmonty

quickmonty

Ancient Windbreaker

Join Date: May 2005

The other night an ecto dropped on the stairs with the first group of ataxes.

I got both ectos that dropped that run (4 man team)

Vilaptca

Vilaptca

Pre-Searing Vanquisher

Join Date: Jun 2005

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

I heard it checks how many you have in storage, and then gives it to already has the most.

Maxiemonster

Maxiemonster

There is no spoon.

Join Date: Jun 2005

Netherlands

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Vilaptca
I heard it checks how many you have in storage, and then gives it to already has the most.
Yep, I've got over 500 Ectos in my storage already, and I get about 5 each run, since I get all that drop.