Article
State-Dependent Asymmetry in Soft-Pity Gacha Waiting-Time Models: Exact Recurrences, Tail Risk, and Featured-Target Extensions
2026-05-27
Abstract excerpt
Randomized reward mechanisms are often described as repeated trials with a fixed success probability. Pity and guarantee rules depart from this symmetric baseline by making the hazard depend on the current state. This paper studies that state-dependent asymmetry for a finite soft-pity waiting-time model. The waiting time for one rare item is represented as an absorption time of a Markov chain whose transient state...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 034218bb-1ae4-5b0e-9108-3f31fe30084b
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202605.1832.v1
