Rng Priorities For Alerts - Duration

[Casardis]

I'm happy with how the alerts' RNG work now, especially at the frequency of rewards poping up. However, I'm wondering about how it "prioritize" things.

 

For example, I've seen some credits-only alert giving about 3000 credits lasting over an hour, while an alert for Ember's new Backdraft helmet was a high level 15-waves Grineer Defense (back when high level Elites could OHKO even the tankiest), with only a ~35min duration.

 

I thought that only the rare rewards will get over an hour (or at least twice the amount of time), so why was a credit-only mission lasting longer than the alert for Ember's new helmet (not to mention I haven't seen it pop back up ever since, unless it was during my sleeping schedule)? Did the RNG mess up a bit there?

 

Thankfully for the most part, all helmet alerts that came after had a minimum of 42min duration.

Edited July 28, 2013 by Casardis

[Casardis]

Veles (Sedna): Hold Out For Reinforcements - 62m - 2300cr

 

Naeglar (Eris): Clear Resistance - 41m - 3100cr - Ash Helmet (Blueprint)

 

?!?!?!?

Edited July 29, 2013 by Casardis

[Relish]

Veles (Sedna): Hold Out For Reinforcements - 62m - 2300cr

 

Naeglar (Eris): Clear Resistance - 41m - 3100cr - Ash Helmet (Blueprint)

 

?!?!?!?

 

First is a defense mission, needs longer in case of failure, a better example would be 2 of the same kind of alerts.

[Casardis]

Hm yeah, that makes sense in this case. Still, I feel that it's simply RNG at work again since the example I gave in my first post (Ember helmet) was a Defense, yet it was less than 40 minutes.

 

So I already have an example, though it was from a little while back, which means if they did alter something on the alert RNG again, I don't know what it is.

 

EDIT: Just verified. The Backdraft Ember Helm alert was exactly 40 minutes, on Ceres (one of the highest level planets). However, that was 11 days ago, which means before a bunch of hotfixes, so there may have been some changes.

Edited July 29, 2013 by Casardis

[PublikDomain]

Did the RNG mess up a bit there?

cout << rand() << endl; Output:"Sorry guys, I messed up :("