User blog:Swordisms/Musings on the Summoning Campaign

This doesn't really count as an event, but Things Happened so I thought I'd write about it anyways. As of this blog, there's only Saber Day left, but I'm content with who I have so I won't be touching that gacha.

First, there was the half AP Free Quests campaign, which finally prompted me to finish up extra quests in America and Camelot and collect those stray quartz. I was pretty much quartz-poor by now and was basically single-rolling as I go (+1 ticket), which I decided to throw as YOLOs in the Lancer, Caster, and Berserker gachas. (You really do live once with the things you're offered, right?)

Again, wasn't expecting anything spectacular (maybe a 4-star if I was reaaaallly lucky). I had dreams of Li Shuwen and Helena, perhaps an extra NP copy of Heracles...yes, it might be vain to have hope in RNG, but that didn't mean I couldn't try anyways.

Lancer Day didn't give me anything, but Caster Day surprised me with a second Xuanzang, which was ??!. Berserker Day happened to coincide on one of my FGO anniversaries so the game gave me 20 quartz, which eventually brought home Lancelot (Berserker) for me. (???!?!??)

...I'm beginning to wonder about these RNG rates.

There was something I once read on the Internet about a user that had multiple FGO accounts with varying levels of quartz, which they used for rolls. They noticed a trend in them--namely, that certain accounts would roll upon gold Servants fairly often, while others only got 1 or 2 total from the mix. Is it really luck that determines the roll, or some strange mixture of fate and FGO magic?

Or it could be that theory with the coin-tossing, where a quarter once landed heads nearly 50/50 times. It doesn't necessarily mean the quarter was biased--just that all of the 50% rolls for heads, landed on heads all those times. Each roll is independent of the ones before and after it.

Of course, with gacha it's less of a 50/50 chance and more of a single digit percentage for Golds. But I have to say my progress with Servants for this game has been...strangely steady. Perhaps my luck will change in the future, perhaps it'll hold steady or even improve. There's really no way to tell. Either way, I guess what I'm trying to say is...hang in there!

You really don't know what gacha will surprise you with next. Now, excuse me while I take care of all those Artoria's Bike and Mapo Tofu copies...