Hi I am playing single player plugy. I am farming Lower kurast on players 8. I need 6 sur runes. I will cube them into Jah and Ber. It is better set players 7 or 8 ? At this moment I did 220 runs on players 8 and found only one sur rune.

The game goes harder and the drops increase in 3 ,5 and 8 players game

So if so doing players 7 is basically players 5
Doing players 4 is basically players 3
Doing players 2 is same as playing alone

As already stated, the player setting will not affect the item quality, but will affect the amount of items dropped.

So how does the player setting affect monster drops? First, we'll have to introduce a term called "nodrop". Every monster has a certain chance for this "nodrop", that is the chance to drop nothing at all. The greater this number, the greater the chance to drop nothing. This value is cut down with increasing player settings according to the following formula in V1.11:

NewNoDrop=int( ProbSum/(1/((NoDrop/(NoDrop+ProbSum))^N)-1) ),
where N=int(1+AdditionalPlayers/2+ClosePartiedPlayers/2),
AdditionalPlayers — the number of all additional players in the game, where the monster is killed,
ClosePartiedPlayers — the number of players in your party near you (not far than two screens away),
ProbSum=Prob1+Prob2+Prob3+...+Prob10,
int — operation of truncating fractional part of a number.

For normal monsters: The more players, the more drops.
For Super Uniques (like Pindleskin), Uniques and Champions: player setting is irrelevant.
Super Uniques will always drop two items.
Uniques will always drop one item.
Champions will always drop one item.
Bosses: "nodrop" will be reduced to zero for 5 unpartied players or 3 near players in the same party. In Single Player the difference between the drops for 3 player setting and 5 player setting is only marginal though.
Note: The formula implies, that for unpartied players (and simulated players via the Players X Command) only every second additional players has impact on drop rates. So the steps for more drops are players 3, players 5 and players 7.
In other words: players 8 and players 7 have the same drop rates, players 6 and 5, players 4 and 3, and players 2 and 1. Note that the amount of Experience gained and monsters' Hit Points are nonetheless different for each player setting (as stated above).

This post was edited by Marieusz on Sep 25 2018 03:27am

I heard something about patterns. They change with players X. I want to know if is biger chance to find sur runes on players 7 or 8 ?

This post was edited by DarkUndead on Sep 25 2018 03:37am

If you scroll down the pages here, someone was posting all the known patterns. Might be a fair few pages down now, as I haven't seen it for a while. Should have the info you're after.