Random Items

[george moromisato]

I just ran a few simulations to figure out how hard it is to find certain items. I was able to generate these tables, which you may find amusing.

The 25 Rarest Items in Transcendence
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Lazarus shield generator 0.01
neutronium armor 0.1
Kytryn plasma thrower 0.18
Commonwealth Medal of Honor 0.21
Hyperion reactor 0.21
Iocrym healer 0.26
Commonwealth military identification chip 0.32
Gaian demolition cannon 0.33
Abbasid thanogram 0.45
defective weapon enhancement ROM 0.45
Luminous blast shield 0.57
P500 Hexphase armor 0.58
slave coffin 0.6
Penitent cannon 0.7
Luminous particle shield 0.71
Luminous thermo shield 0.78
Luminous ion shield 0.86
human cadaver 0.92
stargate control rod 1
Commonwealth Medal of Distinction 1.04
Invincible-class deflector 1.09
calligraphy scroll 1.1
gold cash card 1.11
patcher arm 1.11
heavy ithalium armor 1.14

The number in each line indicates the average number of items of that type that a player will encounter on average per game. Note that this only includes items that are randomly generated on stations and available either for purchase or for looting (sometimes after cracking the station).

Thus slave coffins show up on this list because the table doesn't include slave coffins that you can rescue from Slave Camps.

Has anyone ever found a defective weapon enhancement ROM?

And just for completeness:

The 25 Most Common Items in Transcendence
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Akan 30 cannon shell cartridge 38126.42
SmartCannon round 8717.53
Nandao bolt cartridge 7101
helium³ fuel rod 5229.38
400 Hexagene MAG 4817.26
helium³ reactor assembly 4181.71
800F Hexagene MAG 3633.3
thermo cannon shell cartridge 3109.68
Dragonfly missile cartridge 2843.89
White Strelka missile 2692.49
Ares micronuke 2445.75
pteracnium fuel rod 2292.51
KM100 Longbow missile 2159.64
Green Strelka missile 1932.58
600 Hexagene MAG 1733.69
fragmentation missile 1672.07
TM7 warhead 1376.56
kiloton cannon shell 1159.34
Red Strelka missile 1031.96
ZG24 Cluster MAG 1007.18
superconducting coil 946.79
xenotite ore 814.07
Gotha-10 missile 732.96
water ice 713.4
KM500 Stiletto missile 633.75

[Edit: changed the numbers because I found a bug in my program.]

[Betelgeuse]

cool I have found everything on that list except Iocrym healer, Abbasid thanogram, defective weapon enhancement ROM

wow that is alot of Akan ammo

[palmiche]

I've seen most of the rare items and the incredible thing is I saw the most of them in my very first game. I've seen some of the in other games but just a few in each case.

[SparcMan]

I'm hoping that in future versions of the game, certain consumable items respawn in certain places (especially in markets). Namely ammo and fuel, including the more common types of rockets. Running out of fuel or ammo isn't too common yet, but as the game grows, it will probably be more common. As a nethack comparison, I never did like running out of food and starving in nethack (or was it in rogue?).

[F50]

There actually is no problem with running out of fuel in this game because all capships use rods, all you need to do is get rods from dead capships. That alone would keep my reactor happy. However, in the case of there being no fuel in the cargo hold, perhaps Domina could do something about that.

[Ghengis]

If it doesn't already, maybe Invoke Sustain could keep you from running completely out of fuel until the effect wears off.

[Fossaman]

I have some confusion on the slave coffins...aren't there about 20 of them that show up in the Sung transport for the slaver convoy fortress mission?

Yes, I have found a defective weapon enhancement rom. I was most irritated.

I don't think I've ever seen a human cadaver, and I'm not sure about the abbasid thanogram, but everything else looks familiar.