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And what's the chance of getting a coeff.5 in the game after unlocking it (by a quest)?

You can see it quite well if you look at the coeff 6s: the french forum has a thread where the highest numbers of coeff 6s of one kind are listed. For example someone got 7 golden mushrooms so far, another player got 5 purple pearls, and so on. The effect item numbers are somewhere around 5-7 each while the point item numbers are always around 2 or 3. This is a quite big difference, and there are four effect items and four point items, so I would say the first way (see above) is right.

Interesting ... You certainly have a point. This gap indeed seems to suggest that the game selects an item individually, based on the whole set, rather than first selecting a coefficient set. So (I think) this implies a dynamic system, as I theorized in Neko's thread: it means that the chances are relative to the number of items you can get. This would also support kensainasir's explanation for already having unblocked both Books:

All my coeff 5 I reached in first 3 month cos If you not finish some quest you can't find many "easy" items and there is much biggest chance to find rare items. It's not fair but it's true.

I say "implies," not "necessitates," because of course it could still just be a coincidence. Or it could be based on other external factors, such as the point items' families taking longer to unlock (although I don't think this is true), or something else we haven't yet thought of.

Yes, kensainasir's discovery fits this as well - and there are several players (including myself) who tried to do similar things on their own. My best success was a game with 5 or 6 which would usually be nearly impossible.

Also, the total numbers of coeff 5s speak for that too. There are a lof of players who have unblocked coeff 5 effect items (sometimes even all of them!) without having unblocked any coeff 5 points item.

Level reached: 98 - It's your new record!

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Can someone PLEASE tell me why I forgot to look up how to get into PD 97? I completely forgot it even existed (since you know, I havn't been to 97 all that many times) until I was faced with 687246837 enemies on 98. Well, not that many. but still. I had like two lives left and I lost it all. Ah well... seems to me like those levels with the lone strawberries are really all that's holding me back.

For any level with a lone strawberry, you will have much more success if you play the level in "spurts." When the strawberry is about to throw his ball, stop moving (in some safe place). Wait for it, jump over it. Then keep going. Try to kill just one or two enemies in between each ball-throw. In this stop-and-go fashion, you can have much better luck than relying on your reflexes to help you dodge the balls. And when you have to kill him, do the same thing. Move a few inches toward him, then stop moving. Wait for the ball, jump over it. Then keep going. Repeat until you reach him. Capisce ?

Got my third tuber's bag today and got killed by lag/banana after three levels...

Yeah nemo, I think that's what saved me this time. Having Up-kick helps too. Next time I get there I'm going to try it without up-kick, just to see if I can pull it off.

Points: 1.956.080

Level reached: 91

Not a good follow-up to my first meeting with Tuber. Believe it or not, this score came despite winning PD 25 and getting an orange big crystal on 48. On almost every early level, anything that could go wrong with killing order did go wrong. From level 88 onwards, pretty much everything did go wrong: killed by ricochet of strawberry ball on 88, missed 1x1 square resulting in falling death, enemy bomb exploding immediately after passing through teleporter on 89, killed repeatedly on 90 by shock blasts (#1 just wouldn't stop stomping), and died twice on 91 despite having a bubble the second time because Igor kicked the bomb past the strawberry.

Needless to say, no quest progress. It's been seemingly months since I've seen a or chopper's hat.

"Points: 1.807.445

Level reached: 92"

Lost like 4 lives on level 90. Seriously, there was a long stretch of more than half a minute in which I couldn't count to 2 without a pineapple stomping.

I don't believe it. I just don't believe it. I had twelve lives when I lost my first life on 72, and I kicked the bucket at 90. I just don't believe it. This has to be the biggest let-down I have ever experienced in this game.