% of Beacons

[maxwellhawk]

The recent spate of spaceship threads tempted me to start this thread. I have only found 5-6 ships luckily one was one of the very first found on Calypso and it had a beacon; however since that time I have never gotten another beacon, so out of curiosity has anyone attempted to determine what percentage of ships drop beacons? In my case (granted not a very large sample) it appears to be 20% or less. Feedback from some people that have found some larger amounts of ships can provide this information
Thx

[Solaris]

All random...

The higher the rate of actual beacon usage (apart from just being stocked and resold), the higher the droprate in spaceships will be.

But if it is you or me who gets a beacon in the daily 10-20 spaceships found on Calypso, will still be only MA and random numbers to decide.

Thus the belief in Lootius

[Atraie]

1 beacon out of 3 ships

[Mantas1]

7 out of 15 had Beacons for me, so 50%-50% here it's really random.

[LLS]

of my 3 ships so far, 2 had beacons, 23 and 29 pedders

[kingjoe1974]

Well I have had 6 space ships not one of them had a beacon. If it is random then my turn should be next.


One thing I have noticed is that out of the 6 Space Ships I have had, 4 of them were guarded by only one drone, 1 of them guarded by 2 drones, and the last was guarded by 3 drones. STILL NO BEACON


Not that I am complaining, I never mind the 50ped I get from the space ship, that helps pay back some of the investment for each mining run

[Milesio]

Hi.

4 ships, only 1 beacon.

[Cykel]

3 ships, 1 Beacon (first was looted by another avatar as I didn't know how to , no beacon to what he said )

[-=rAndom=-]

10 or 11 ships, 3x 23 pedder, 2x 35 pedder
+2 abandoned ships with residue only

1 spaceship per 5.5 TT of skill (surv+prosp)

[Galadea]

5 ships and 1 beacon: 20%