recipe drops

Has anyone else noticed that when teaming with free players that don't have recipe access your recipe drops seem very limited?

I've run the demon farm to PL a couple secondary acct recently and I've noticed that when running the farm solo to go for purples I get a normal drop rate. When I get the other accts fired up and logged in my drop rate is severely diminished, like by 75%.

Am I the only one seeing this?

Well going by past experience from many an hour spent drop-farming, my self-educated guess would be that even though the 'freebie' can't recieve a recipe that doesnt necesarily mean the drop can't trigger on them.

When you solo, each and every trigger ends up in your pocket, but when you team, even with a freebie, the trigger goes off and then a 'decision' is made as to who recieves it.

Now where i'm going with this is, the freebie may not be able to "collect" the triggered recipe/salvage but the RNG may still divert it in that general direction as per usual resulting in an over-all lower drop-rate across the board simply because the recipes drop but are never "collected".

This is backed up by the fact that if you dual-account farm with 2 accounts that can -both- recieve recipes/salvage, it's almost always the 'secondary' account that gets the most drops.

It's too bad the devs didn't make some sort of thing that would not give them the chance for the drop if they don't have access.

Well the end result doesn't have to steal the drops from the players that don't have IO access. It would instead not give them a chance for a recipe drop. That in turn would make it so that those that do have IO access would get more chances of getting a drop when teamed with those that don't.

I'm not sure if it has anything to do with free play or not.

I have two VIP accounts, when I solo farm on my main account I usually average 20 or so recipes per run. When I dual box, whether it's with another 50 or a lower level toon, my recipe drop rate tanks to about 10-15 between the two toons. I also noticed I would average one purple per 4-5 runs while solo, I've only gotten two purples in the last 15 runs while dual boxing.

It has always been this way afaik. It's the main reason I solo a lot - much better return on rare salvage and recipe drops per hour.

Well maybe the RNG just doesn't like me right now or something.

Don't worry, it will like you some day.
But I can't tell you when.
Because it's random.