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I always knew you were a troll, but that is just bad teamplay, man...

I dunno. It should tell you something that I tend to play Raids, and somehow still managed to generate more orbs than my five teammates combined have given me.

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Also 28% head shots lifetime (Deadeye)

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we are just posting ever increasing numbers right?

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Considering my lifetime generation of Orbs is just shy of 11k, I think it's pretty balanced.

I blame shotguns for the latter. I'm certain it was a lot higher before shotguns became so much fun in PvE.

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I always knew you were a troll, but that is just bad teamplay, man...

Realized yesterday that the 141 orbs are from my week of Xbox. I got a separate email for my PS4 characters Showing 9,460 orbs. Given the fact that I don't have a cap on the number of orbs that I can make (nine orbs, Alpha Lupis? That's cute), I'm surprised the number isn't much higher, actually...

I'm a great teammate no matter where I go! :v

When they send out these emails it takes them a while. It may be a few hours before you get one.

That works out to a 25 orb difference per week.

If I was playing from launch that would be around a thousand. Not too shabby.

Defender titan orb build ftw.

A high number might not be so bad either:

- A Voidwalker with that one helmet and Bad Juju can very easily refill their Nova Bomb just by Supering even a small group of enemies. They'd tend to go highly positive since it's a lot rarer that they need orbs.

- A Defender Titan can be set to generate a ton of orbs. Two guaranteed per Super, where things like Nova Bomb or Golden Gun might not make any. Five per Super if the Defender is under any real amount of fire. Then, they can make a ton of orbs even in a short mission just by punching enemies. On top of that they can have a decent change to make orbs with each heavy kill the get. In a busy level, especially a Hive level, a Defender can flood a room with orbs.

- There are some armor pieces that let you make orbs on kills. For a long time I used a piece of Crota gear that let me get a chance for an orb when I killed Hive with headshots. Those would just kinda happen as I played and would largely go unnoticed by me since I'd never see the orbs directly.

- Those who play low level stuff more often would generate more orbs than someone who does mainly Nightfalls and Raids. Enemies get so tough and powerful that Supers become underpowered and orb generation rates go way down.

I have no idea how I'm at +10,000 though! I play a Defender mostly, but I don't punch all the things all that often...

caveat - I'm biased due to having a low number.

First, can we agree that the ideal situation is where I pick up 5 orbs, and immediately produce 5 orbs, rinse and repeat for the entire match? That scenario, though unrealistic, would produce a net difference of zero orbs. A game where I produce 4 times as many orbs as I pick up is a game in which I could have done even better if I got just picked up more orbs.

So what prevents the ideal situation?

Given that there are more orbs on the field to pick up than we produce (except for FFA and likely ToO), what prevents us from picking them up and using them? Two things:
1. Death. Potential orbs to pick up disappear when you die.
2. Super is full. You can't pick up orbs with a full super.

So, two potential ways to get closer to the ideal are to:
1. Not die until you have picked up as many orbs as possible
2. Use your super as soon as possible.

With this single goal in mind (and it's not the only or best goal, of course) the worst case is to hold unto your super for a while, and then use it in a suicide run at the enemy.

The stat that matters way more would be Orbs produces per minute, and orbs picked up per minute. That would tell you how effective you were at dishing supers and filling back up.

An aside - The net orbs produced will likely always be higher, given that producing orbs is not actually dependent on picking orbs up, given that supers fill up slowly on their own. Also, having produce 5000 more than picked up may not be bad at all, if you've produced 100,000 overall. But if you've produced 90 more than picked up, having only produced 100 total, you might want to reevaluate your game play.

Considering that Korny and I have nearly the same number, I'd say it's not a very meaningful number.

Doing story missions solo(for bounties, glimmer farming, etc) will likely lead to a higher number.

2.48 dropped/game
1.03 picked up/game