September 2013 Discussion Thread

[LittleStarWolf]

Beetlejuice!

Let me love you ;0;

I adore the hand staff dog, and I'm so glad he didn't get wings.
Has it been claimed?


wow-ee.
Today's dog= Beetlejuice
Yağmur's= Josette
Tree dog= Sleepy Hollow?
My fangirl just broke x.x

See I'm not the only one who thought Sleepy Hollow on Tree Dog!

[ser]

this year my staff favorites were these two


i also hoard them, so i may or may not be biased. cx .

[Tawny224]

A vintage fairy princess.. That really fits her ^.^ I wonder wether she will turn rare after a few years?

The staff pets will always have the same rarity as each other ^^

[bookworm.]

A vintage fairy princess.. That really fits her ^.^ I wonder wether she will turn rare after a few years?

The staff pets will always have the same rarity as each other ^^

Not necessarily forever, when they get their rarities yes, but they may change differently.

[plutonian]

A vintage fairy princess.. That really fits her ^.^ I wonder wether she will turn rare after a few years?

The staff pets will always have the same rarity as each other ^^

Not necessarily forever, when they get their rarities yes, but they may change differently.

That is incorrect sorry... all staff pets will always have the same rarity, so there is no "favoritism" of the staff. To be fair to every staff. ^^; They might turn rare later on, but that'll be in many years, together. ^^

[DragonGirl218]

A vintage fairy princess.. That really fits her ^.^ I wonder wether she will turn rare after a few years?

The staff pets will always have the same rarity as each other ^^

Not necessarily forever, when they get their rarities yes, but they may change differently.

No, all have the same rarity, period, if I recall correctly. The only exception was back in 2009 when one of the outcomes was accidentally left out of the programmed outcomes so everyone got 1 (2?) of it, which made it rarer overall. Other than that, the only way to have one outcome rarer than others from staff pets would be if someone made a massive hoard and then deleted all of them specifically to make it rarer.

[Atwood]

It's possible for there to be very slight variations in rarity among the staff pets just due to random chance. :3 They're all set to have the exact same probability of showing up, but that doesn't mean there will be exactly equal numbers of each one at the end. For example, you might have this setup for adoption rates on a litter:

Dog A = 25%
Dog B = 25%
Dog C = 25%
Dog D = 25%

That means every adopted dog in that litter has a 1 in 4 chance of being any one outcome, but you could still draw the same dog four times over because the chance of getting that dog doesn't change no matter how many have already been adopted. As a result, the final percentages of dogs actually adopted site-wide might look more like this:

Dog A = 22%
Dog B = 17%
Dog C = 32%
Dog D = 29%

If the numbers of each outcome were close to the rarity division line, Dog B could go rare a little bit before Dog C, even though they were supposed to be the same rarity. However, in the staff litters the minor variations in rarity from this effect have far less impact on the dogs' values than demand does, so the rarity variations can generally be ignored. Even if it happens that one staff dog's label says 'Rare' while its littermate's says 'Uncommon', they are still so close in true rarity that it makes no real difference to their overall value. :3

[war paint]

Nicely put Atwood

[Nicnova]

It's possible for there to be very slight variations in rarity among the staff pets just due to random chance. :3 They're all set to have the exact same probability of showing up, but that doesn't mean there will be exactly equal numbers of each one at the end. For example, you might have this setup for adoption rates on a litter:

Dog A = 25%
Dog B = 25%
Dog C = 25%
Dog D = 25%

That means every adopted dog in that litter has a 1 in 4 chance of being any one outcome, but you could still draw the same dog four times over because the chance of getting that dog doesn't change no matter how many have already been adopted. As a result, the final percentages of dogs actually adopted site-wide might look more like this:

Dog A = 22%
Dog B = 17%
Dog C = 32%
Dog D = 29%

If the numbers of each outcome were close to the rarity division line, Dog B could go rare a little bit before Dog C, even though they were supposed to be the same rarity. However, in the staff litters the minor variations in rarity from this effect have far less impact on the dogs' values than demand does, so the rarity variations can generally be ignored. Even if it happens that one staff dog's label says 'Rare' while its littermate's says 'Uncommon', they are still so close in true rarity that it makes no real difference to their overall value. :3

I respect you so much for typing all this out for us XD Thank you Atwood.



For this staff litter, it is so difficult to pick favorites XD I've got a few.

Those eyes <3
Hehehe Are you my mummy? :3 (Lol Doctor Who reference)
Those peacock feathers, omg <3
Squirrels are the best! This one is so cute <3
So much detail <3 She's so pretty!
I love this one so much <3
This one is very unique. I adore him
I adore that tail and the leaf on it's head XD Love it!

Keep in mind that I like these just a teensy bit more than the others XD I cannot pick just one favorite though <3

[bookworm.]

It's possible for there to be very slight variations in rarity among the staff pets just due to random chance. :3 They're all set to have the exact same probability of showing up, but that doesn't mean there will be exactly equal numbers of each one at the end. For example, you might have this setup for adoption rates on a litter:

Dog A = 25%
Dog B = 25%
Dog C = 25%
Dog D = 25%

That means every adopted dog in that litter has a 1 in 4 chance of being any one outcome, but you could still draw the same dog four times over because the chance of getting that dog doesn't change no matter how many have already been adopted. As a result, the final percentages of dogs actually adopted site-wide might look more like this:

Dog A = 22%
Dog B = 17%
Dog C = 32%
Dog D = 29%

If the numbers of each outcome were close to the rarity division line, Dog B could go rare a little bit before Dog C, even though they were supposed to be the same rarity. However, in the staff litters the minor variations in rarity from this effect have far less impact on the dogs' values than demand does, so the rarity variations can generally be ignored. Even if it happens that one staff dog's label says 'Rare' while its littermate's says 'Uncommon', they are still so close in true rarity that it makes no real difference to their overall value. :3

Thank you, Atwood; that's exactly what I was trying to express.

The staff pets will always have the same rarity as each other ^^

Not necessarily forever, when they get their rarities yes, but they may change differently.

That is incorrect sorry... all staff pets will always have the same rarity, so there is no "favoritism" of the staff. To be fair to every staff. ^^; They might turn rare later on, but that'll be in many years, together. ^^

Not necessarily together, there's always the chance of a hoarder going offline for long periods of time and certain dogs being given a higher rarity. It's I've had very rares turn rare, omgsorare's tun very rare.. you see it almost every year in the re-releases.