Ancient_JE

Its to do with the level of the boss monster, which in turn is to do with the amount of people the dung is for. If you solo you'll fight lower leveled boss monsters, and drops will be lower tiers. If you do 5:5 dungeons, bosses will be higher leveled and the drops will be higher tiers. Also if all you want is prom, you could try asking someone from the dg smith cc to make it for you

Roughly 800 tasks at 15.5m exp for me. Using ovls the whole time, you'll be getting ~10k slayer exp per ovl on average. Potentially more for some tasks (using cannon + titan), but I'd say the average is around that.

Its just a string of bad luck. Whether or not it will change is anyones guess. Don't expect it to average itself out in the short term but given that that's worse than usual (to give you an idea I averaged ~10.5 herbs / seed in my last 1k seeds (with juju, after allowing for seeds gotten back which is where a large part of profit comes from)), chances are next runs won't be as bad. If your herbs keep dieing, another solution might be to get the Remote Farm spell from Livid Farm - by casting that every 20-30 mins after planting you can stop deaths altogether (assuming you're still online after planting).

A full inv of pies is 56 bites (you won't need anything else in inventory), so even if you are eating again after the first drop to +4 it would still last you ~56 mins before you need to bank. Times that by 2 if you can wait until +3 before re-eating etc. Plus, none of the courses (except maybe wild if you're not on ancients) are particularly far from a bank. The time you save by not failing (or by being able to do a higher course) definitely makes summer pies worth it.