Is the ToT RNG FUBAR?

[CountZero]

With a toon that wasn't around last year, I was doing a "little" door knocking to try and get the Halloween tip mission. But to get all the badges you need to run it 6 times. So far this toon has picked up 51 classic\holo costumes plus 64 event salvage costume items. With a rough estimate of 1 in 4 doors giving a treat, that would be someone in the region of 450-500 doors knocked on. Number of mission tips - ONE!

A 1 in 500 chance of getting a tip mission? That can't possibly be working as intended (or if it is, then someone needs to give their head a wobble)

[Glacier Peak]

33 minutes ago, CountZero said:

With a toon that wasn't around last year, I was doing a "little" door knocking to try and get the Halloween tip mission. But to get all the badges you need to run it 6 times. So far this toon has picked up 51 classic\holo costumes plus 64 event salvage costume items. With a rough estimate of 1 in 4 doors giving a treat, that would be someone in the region of 450-500 doors knocked on. Number of mission tips - ONE!

A 1 in 500 chance of getting a tip mission? That can't possibly be working as intended (or if it is, then someone needs to give their head a wobble)

https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Mission:Tip_-_Whispered_Rumor

 

You need to be wearing one of those dropped costumes for the tip to drop. 

Edited October 2 by Glacier Peak

[Clave Dark 5]

And there's only one of them too, so you can't say have it six times on your list at once.  You'd have to get it, run it, the get it again and again (which, I don't know if happens really)..

[Skyhawke]

13 hours ago, CountZero said:

With a toon that wasn't around last year, I was doing a "little" door knocking to try and get the Halloween tip mission. But to get all the badges you need to run it 6 times. So far this toon has picked up 51 classic\holo costumes plus 64 event salvage costume items. With a rough estimate of 1 in 4 doors giving a treat, that would be someone in the region of 450-500 doors knocked on. Number of mission tips - ONE!

A 1 in 500 chance of getting a tip mission? That can't possibly be working as intended (or if it is, then someone needs to give their head a wobble)

 

Glad (?) I'm not the only one with abysmal luck here. I ran on a ToT league til I got the badges and then ran around the area near Mirror Spirit in Faultline for an hourish and never saw the tip drop once. I was also wearing one of the bazillion costumes I'd manage to get. RNG can be a cruel mistress. 

[Ukase]

I think it's important to recognize that while I wasn't in the OP's shoes, rng is a fickle mistress. 

Rather than reveal 6 paragraphs of my own stupidity in prior years: 

Make sure you don't have a tip already. All the chaos, it could drop and you missed it, or maybe it didn't tell you. (Not my experience that it won't tell you, but who knows?)
As stated, make sure you have a costume on. No costume, no tips. 
Make sure if you need one last tip because you want that last badge that you've changed your alignment to rogue or villain, and ToT in villain or co-op areas like KW. 

Other than that - it's ABCD, as a league leader told me yesterday. "Always Be Clicking Doors". 

[High_Beam]

6 minutes ago, Ukase said:

Make sure you don't have a tip already. All the chaos, it could drop and you missed it

This.  So many time this.  🙂

[Bionic_Flea]

Also:  Keep an eye on the chat channels.  Many people are nice and will announce that they are about to run the tip.  You don't HAVE to get them all by yourself.

 

Finally, your name CountZero, had me imagining you counting Doors, Costumes, and Tips like this:

 

 AH HAHAHA!  FOUR BEAUTIFUL TIPS!!!

[Troo]

Hmmm.. got a number of characters all done. Was using Windfall while Trick or Treating.

Just kidding.

It's only barely day 3.

There's time, it doesn't have to be a grind.

 

[Ukase]

I did want to add this: perception is crazy. I have my 50 out, the character is already rogue. For whatever reason, he has no tips of any kind. 

I finally get a tip, and it's 3 tips in one. Wizard's weakness, a window of opportunity, and a standard alignment tip. 

Click/knock on a few more doors, I get another tip. Another alignment. A few minutes later, another. 

Oddly, set to 0/1, I've gotten 1-2 of each EB, 6 costumes, 20 of those 4 special event salvage - but no Whispered Rumor tip. I've been at it a good 20-25 minutes. 

I just figured I'd share that to let the OP know they are not insane, and the rng, while maybe not FUBAR, is certainly fickle at times. 

And I'll add this: 
I was up to 16 costumes collected, and still no tip. But I'd forgotten that an Arisen Mummy killed me, and I neglected to put my costume back on. I did, and 2 doors later, I got my tip. 

Don't be like me. If you get clobbered, put the costume back on!

 

Edited October 3 by Ukase

[CountZero]

1 hour ago, Ukase said:

I was up to 16 costumes collected, and still no tip. But I'd forgotten that an Arisen Mummy killed me, 

 

I have a special technique for dealing with EB's 

 

Spoiler

Run like hell to the nearest drone and let them sort it out

 

[Echo Night]

I've had several 10's of characters get all three costume badges before the tip dropped. I even thought that maybe swapping costumes out from time to time might help "reset" the rng. But I've got no sensible reason to believe doing that would affect rng. I was getting so pissed off that I tried stupid stuff to "push" rng in my favor. Rng is indeed a fickle #%%&^%$!$#*!

[Triumphant]

On 10/3/2025 at 9:15 AM, Bionic_Flea said:

Also:  Keep an eye on the chat channels.  Many people are nice and will announce that they are about to run the tip.  You don't HAVE to get them all by yourself.

 

Finally, your name CountZero, had me imagining you counting Doors, Costumes, and Tips like this:

 

 AH HAHAHA!  FOUR BEAUTIFUL TIPS!!!

 

The name is likely a William Gibson reference.  The second book of his Sprawl Trilogy is called Count Zero.