Talk:Object Detection

Does anyone else here think that the bang icon used in Object Detection, aside from the obvious "It's 'cuz it's a bang potion effect!", is a reference to the guards in the Metal Gear series of games?--LoopyChew 03:31, 28 January 2006 (Central Standard Time)

In Nethack, this effect this is named after allowed you to detect money, too (since it was an object), I wonder if this increases both item and meat drops? --Rikmach 20:20, 28 January 2006 (Central Standard Time)

Base drop rate for enchanted beans = 50%.

800 adventures at beanbats with object detection on yielded 448 beans, a 12% improvement over the base rate. --Hellion 14:21, 4 April 2006 (CDT)

This isn't enough data to fix it down to 12.5%... was there additional data you didn't note here? --Starwed 21:20, 6 May 2007 (CDT)

As noted in the HCO forum thread about temporary blindness, no. 800 adventures is all I did. I can certainly crank out a few hundred (or thousand) more, though. --Hellion 00:52, 7 May 2007 (CDT)

What's the deal with the percentage in the notes being changed and changed back and all? --Alpaca (^T/_C) 12:27, 31 July 2006 (CDT)

Data collection

Additional data collection here:

 800 adv:  448 beans
 310 adv:  176 beans
 180 adv:   89 beans
 300 adv:  153 beans
 196 adv:  104 beans
 199 adv:  111 beans
 173 adv:   97 beans
 167 adv:   87 beans
 166 adv:   88 beans
 163 adv:   92 beans
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2654 adv: 1445 beans

That's a modified drop rate of 0.5445, or a bonus of 8.9%, overall. Which means we should probably change this rate to 10%. --Hellion 16:01, 17 May 2007 (CDT)

Although Hellion's data clearly indicates a drop rate of 10%, we have two reports of beans not dropping with a base 90% bonus in addition to Object Detection. That clearly indicates it being less than 10%. If anyone wants to help sort this out, please visit the HCO thread.--Starwed 11:08, 6 June 2007 (CDT)