Ralph is telling the truth when he says that they are a lot rarer now. Hueylewis reported the PKT as being too common in the bugs forum and a developer stealthily "adjusted the spawn" to make it much rarer. It has somewhere along the lines of a 5-10% drop chance now and it certainly feels closer to 5%. It's also really hard to say that it's not 7% or whatever given the small sample sizes (Bilge spawns a couple times a RL day, at best.)
What Ralph fails to mention is that he knows this so well because he kept Bilge under lock down almost continuously during the course of the last year. All that time the PKT was a 50/50 drop and for many months he was selling it for 12.5k and the belt for 5k.
It should be pretty obvious to anyone that his "dedication" ended up resulting in a massive price fixing incident where no one else could camp Bilge (for literally months straight) to find out the PKT was bugged a common drop and thus were forced to not only buy it but pay the classic/rare/high(/ignorant) price to "ever" get one. SHAME!
Personally I think its overpriced at 10k given how many should be in circulation. That said, most everyone seems to be hoarding currently and I'm sure it has a lot to do with the slow, slow price rebound. I guess you might say that the forecast is cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms, but I'm not sure what else.
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