No, the drop rates are not the same (assuming the rate for SHOs is the same as HOs). No, I'm not sure what the rates are.
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There is little question in my mind that there is weighting among the drops. Ribosomes and Membranes are much more rare than, say, Centrioles or Peroxisomes. I don't have statistics on this, but I raided Hamidon for a very long time, along with a lot of other people, long before we had Inventions or STF/RSF alternatives. The observation of rarity for some pieces was widely noted. Now that we have a market, it's also borne out in part by their prices. Ribosomes' inherent benefits don't really suggest that they should have a price comparable to a LotG: Recharge - unless they are actually more rare.
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
Way back in issue 7 or 8 someone compiled statistics from several hundred players at dozens Hami raids and determined that there was indeed some weighting. I don't remember the exact results but the most common drops overall were Nucleolus and Centriole while the rarest were Microfillament and Ribosome with something like a 20 to one spread between most common and least.
From what I recall roughly 50% of recorded drops were Nucs or Centrioles while less than 5% were Ribo or Micro.
This was a long time ago and I've forgotten who compiled the statistics... I think it was a thread on Pinnacle. Any old time Hami raiders remember the details?
From my personal experience that weighting makes sense; in several hundred raids from issue 4 to issue 8 I had exactly 3 Micros and 7 Ribos drop.
COH has just been murdered by NCSoft. http://www.change.org/petitions/ncso...city-of-heroes
I don't know what weights are, but I once got 7 or 8 nucs in a row, from both hami raids and STFs. While I needed ribo at that time, I was more than happy these weren't cents.
Are the drop rates for different HOs the same? I ask because I've gotten so many peroxisomes and centrioles on LRSFs that I decided to keep track after a while. Here is the data for my last 17 LRSFs:
Centriole
Centriole
Peroxisome
Nucleolus
Centriole
Peroxisome
Centriole
Centriole
Centriole
Peroxisome
Peroxisome
Centriole
Peroxisome
Centriole
Nucleolus
Peroxisome
Peroxisome
As you can see, mostly Centrioles and Peroxisomes with 2 Nucleolus. Am I just abnormally unlucky?