Tess wrote:cubiecommala wrote:To: anyone involved in Dec 18 decisions
Is the current rarity of the pets a factor in deciding how many of them can be released on Dec 18? Like, "there are (say) 120 sunjewels on active accounts, and (say) 150 would push them from OMGSR to VR, so we won't release more than 20 this year"?
Does anyone control which/how many pets are adoptable from the Dec 18th box? Or is it totally randomised?
thank you!
Interesting question, I don't think many people consider thatit is almost completely random, but with a few exceptions
Instead of there being a hard limit (e.g. 20 sun jewels limit) it'll be a probability (so you might have a smaller chance of getting a sunjewel but you never lose the chance even if people have already adopted a bunch of them). We estimate how many people are likely to adopt and predict which pets will probably change in rarity as a result. We don't want pets to drop down in rarity too much. And for some extra rare pets we want more to be released so they're not impossible to collect. But about 95-99% of the pets in there have an equal probability of being adopted, we only have to tweak a few.
Usually the most probable outcomes are the brand new UR pets, since they would be SUPER rare if we didn't give out a bunch in their first year. It might not feel like it since URs are so rare, but when you adopt from the box you actually have about 4 - 8 times the chance of getting a new UR compared to any other outcome. That's why you sometimes see lucky people getting more than one UR at oncefirestar123456789 wrote:to Tess
will we ever see the cs buttons and stickers return? I never got to buy any last time they came out and ive been waiting awhile now, just curious
probably yes, but not this yearI don't know when they'll return, but we'll post in the news next time they're in stock
Thanks for explaining that in mathmaticle terms! Extremely helpful!
