Mining hat

[Frogboy]

i think aki means is in accordance to the pseudo code you threw up on the first page, in that the decrease to the denominator is 5 and not 5%. a difference of 5 in value does not mean that the overall randomness is changed by 5%, especially in a non-linear equation. depending on what the denominator is, a decrease of 5 can be well above 5% in the case of y being less than 100, and for any value of y greater will continually lower that value of change.

if the initial denominator is 300, then you're really only changing things by 1.25% non-linearly, which is quite negligible. the actual reduction would need to be 20 in order to proportionately make it a 5% increase in chance to gain an item rather than a break or a stone.

i'm sure i didn't need to write all that as you're a better math whiz than i am, but it's there for slicing and dicing and correcting if i'm wrong.