# Starting board has less skulls than other colors **URL:** \ **Category:** Gameplay Chat (PC/Mobile)\ **Created:** [October 29, 2017, 4:53am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/starting-board-has-less-skulls-than-other-colors/32407 "2017-10-29T04:53:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![akots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@akots](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/akots)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2017, 8:18am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/starting-board-has-less-skulls-than-other-colors/32407/6 "2017-10-29T08:18:30Z")
> [@UKresistance](#): > > Skulls have a lower drop rate. Only on starting board, after that, it is all equal. 😉 > [@UKresistance](#): > > Wonder if Sirrian will post the new Unity equivalent. > [@Equal chance for Mana dropping in battles?](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/equal-chance-for-mana-dropping-in-battles/3427/18): > > I don’t have any of the console code here to look at, but I’ll ask the 505/Pipeworks guys and find out what’s up. > They’re a good bunch of guys, and I can’t imagine they would have done anything nefarious on purpose without us knowing about it… > Their port of the game is based on our code, but it is in a different language, so there are bound to be numerous code differences… I’d be a little surprised if they changed the gem generation though… we programmers are notoriously lazy when it comes to stuff like that! --- _[View the full topic](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/starting-board-has-less-skulls-than-other-colors/32407)._