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Let's say you have a bowl with 50 M&Ms in it, 5 each of 10 different colors. You blindly remove 1 at a time, and after pulling 40 of them from the bowl, you have duplicates of 9 colors, but only 9 colors. Does this mean the good folks who make M&Ms control what colors you get? No. It means you had a pool of 10 colors, and need to pull 41 M&Ms to get each color. Just because something is in the bowl, it does not guarantee your going to get it.
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  • Not entirely applicable because in this case, its infinite whereas your example has a static amount. Eventually, you WILL get all the colors. In terms of Destiny, you can get the same drops as long as you play. I don't think OP is accurate, by may be looking in the right direction. I think some accounts have higher drop rates for particular weapons, but I think that number is random.

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  • Edited by xpuddytatx: 4/9/2015 7:29:38 PM
    It becomes applicable if you put each candy back in the bowl after each pick, giving you an infinite amount. I have said before though, and a agreeing with you, it feels like there is 1 ghorn and 30 no land beyond in the bowl lol. You COULD pull either on on a drop, but there's a higher probability for some weapons vs others.

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  • Ok. I can agree to that.

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  • Indeed. And the add the fact that out of the 50 the bowl might actually have 14 red m&ms (no land beyond) and it might only have one yellow (ghorn). RNG doesn't mean everything has the same chance of dropping. It means every number has the same chance of being generated. What the game then does with that number is a totally different story.

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