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Title: Where or where is the shadow iron?
Post by: NObama on May 19, 2010, 01:33:03 PM
Alright, this is ridiculous.  I should not be farming more agapite ore than shadow ore.  Statistical abnormalities and bell curve outliers aside, I've been getting way more of gold thru valorite than I am getting shadow.  For about 3 weeks now.  Really putting a crimp in my BOD cycling.

Anyone noticing anything weird?  I'm specifically interested in 24/7 macro miners that noticed a change in output in the last 2 or 3 weeks.

 :)
Title: Re: Where or where is the shadow iron?
Post by: Paulonius on May 19, 2010, 01:36:42 PM
I have seen something similar.
Title: Re: Where or where is the shadow iron?
Post by: manwinc on May 19, 2010, 02:11:57 PM
I'll ask my guildmates what numbers they have been seeing. They all run prospecting hammers though.
Title: Re: Where or where is the shadow iron?
Post by: luv2luvlong on May 19, 2010, 02:15:16 PM
Seems about the same to me, but then I don't mine in your normal places. :P
Title: Re: Where or where is the shadow iron?
Post by: Paulonius on May 19, 2010, 02:36:51 PM
I just put miners to work on two different shards to see if I am still seeing the same results.  I had been working one in TM last week and seemed to see a lack of shadow.  Could have just been a fluke, but maybe this will give us some insight.

Meanwhile, check the PM I sent you.
Title: Re: Where or where is the shadow iron?
Post by: luv2luvlong on May 19, 2010, 02:45:59 PM
I mine an entire sub sever w/ my custom version of  manwinc's miner, and it seems the same output as before.
Title: Re: Where or where is the shadow iron?
Post by: Paulonius on May 19, 2010, 02:54:45 PM
I have been pretty lazy mining in TM and am using only one book -- mining the same spots on three different shards, so I am not that surprised that I hit a trough with an ore type and I its probably not that unlikely that we would hit the same one.  The two miners I have running right now are on different sets of runes and so far they are pulling in normal amounts of shadow, if not more than usual. Small sample so far though.  I will check back after eight hours or so.
Title: Re: Where or where is the shadow iron?
Post by: luv2luvlong on May 19, 2010, 03:04:34 PM
Sent you a PM on this.
Title: Re: Where or where is the shadow iron?
Post by: Masscre on May 20, 2010, 06:15:02 PM
I have been seeing the same output but thought it was just me. Its like the bell curve has reversed.  I am getting less dull copper than shadow and a lot less shadow than normal ony thing is copper and bronze are same and gold, aggy, verite and valorite have doubled or tripled the normal outcome.  Regular iron seems to be above normal but less than double the normal production rate.
Title: Re: Where or where is the shadow iron?
Post by: NObama on May 20, 2010, 06:50:16 PM
I have been seeing the same output but thought it was just me. Its like the bell curve has reversed.  I am getting less dull copper than shadow and a lot less shadow than normal ony thing is copper and bronze are same and gold, aggy, verite and valorite have doubled or tripled the normal outcome.  Regular iron seems to be above normal but less than double the normal production rate.

 :o

Almost exactly what i am seeing, except my DC seems a bit higher than normal.  Iron was off-the-chart high last week, but has settled back in the last 24hrs.
Title: Re: Where or where is the shadow iron?
Post by: Paulonius on May 20, 2010, 06:50:45 PM
I have mined Fel solid since we discussed this and am not seeing the issue at all. Mass, NB, are you mining in TM?  That is where I was seeing the weird results.
Title: Re: Where or where is the shadow iron?
Post by: manwinc on May 20, 2010, 07:15:51 PM
wtf are youg uys doing with all this ore you are farming. I could have 2 miners going 24/7 with a bod filler/swapper going 24/7 and still have more ore being brought in than being used to fill.
Title: Re: Where or where is the shadow iron?
Post by: NObama on May 20, 2010, 07:53:02 PM
Not when you are cycling 1000+ bods a day...
Title: Re: Where or where is the shadow iron?
Post by: manwinc on May 20, 2010, 11:44:45 PM
the ratio of filling to swapping with the script i'm running is about 10k ore an hour put into bods, and my miners go at a rate of about 5k+ ore an hour.... maybe its just lag
Title: Re: Where or where is the shadow iron?
Post by: Paulonius on May 21, 2010, 03:31:35 AM
I can almost keep up with the BODRunner if I run a miner at the same time.  I am running the BOD script on two shards and mining to keep up with it.  I can keep up with the iron, but the dull copper and shadow are tough. I built the low resource functionality after playing with it for a week and seeing how fast it eats the low level colored ore.   
Title: Re: Where or where is the shadow iron?
Post by: NObama on May 21, 2010, 02:47:52 PM
Yep - I find I run out of DC and Shad much faster than I can mine it.  I, too, run a miner at the same time I fill bods.
Title: Re: Where or where is the shadow iron?
Post by: Hoby on May 21, 2010, 08:26:14 PM
r u using a script??  And which ones?  Filler and turn in?
just wondering how u do 1000 a day.
Title: Re: Where or where is the shadow iron?
Post by: NObama on May 22, 2010, 04:14:33 AM
I'm still using 4 scripts:

-Whole book filler
-Bodswapper
-Bod sorter
and s7's when i want to do Larges

I can churn thru 1000/day because I have 5000+ to choose from.  To get thru 1000, i have to be doing junk iron or the odd piece bods (helmets/shields).  If i'm doing lbods, my throughput is obviously MUCH lower.

Been collecting bods for damn near 10 years...holy cow...
Title: Re: Where or where is the shadow iron?
Post by: Sulter on May 24, 2010, 04:10:10 AM
Have seen a drop in shadow ore, but I have been using the tool to bump the dull copper to shadow.
Title: Re: Where or where is the shadow iron?
Post by: Paulonius on June 01, 2010, 07:18:59 AM
I am starting to come back around to thinking that there is something off with the shadow ore spawn rate.  I see normal production when I start a set of runes, but it drops as I work them over time.  It is consistently lower than copper and bronze for the last couple of weeks.
Title: Re: Where or where is the shadow iron?
Post by: Ultima on June 01, 2010, 09:07:48 AM
I'm not seeing the same results as you two. Perhaps it's shard specific but all seem normal to me.
Title: Re: Where or where is the shadow iron?
Post by: 12TimesOver on June 01, 2010, 10:27:51 AM
I'm not seeing the same results as you two. Perhaps it's shard specific but all seem normal to me.
Same here, I setup for a few days after seeing Nobama's original post and I'm pulling pretty much the same amount of Shadow as I always have.

X
Title: Re: Where or where is the shadow iron?
Post by: NObama on June 01, 2010, 05:34:44 PM
Maybe if you stopped hoggin' it all...

 :P

Haven't been able to mine for a while.  I'll fire it up in a couple weeks when I finish moving to Cali.