We've updated our pet rarity measurements!

[Dragontoasted]

Oh my gosh... CS so needed this. Thank you! O:

[{A Dream Is A Wish}]

this makes a lot more sense ^_^

[RisingTiger]

What scares me is I was literally thinking that there should be a little meter on the bottom... and I wake up and now there is... I also had always noticed that most pets were uncommon and wanted to make a post about it in problems and suggestions but never had the time to explain what I thought fully. Thanks guys! I just hope this doesn't affect my current trades because my pets rarities went down!

(I had to try to post this like 8 times and kept getting the, new post was added thing.)

[ahirked]

Phew that is a relief! Thanks Nick!

[dramaqueenliness]

Guys. Be thankful that tess and Nick have done this for you.
not only do they have they're own real life, paying bills, but also working on probably one of the most popular virtual pet website in the world. In the first year of CS i imagine this wasn't suggested at all as it wasn't needed.
I can code, and i know it's pretty complicated and this required Nick to review each individual pet breed that has ever come out.

This. So much.

[Anouki]

Dates will always matter, and as Vampy said a few posts up, litters will always have different rarities. It would be like, a year down the road, looking at a little now that has three outcomes:

Rare
Uncommon
Common

Three years down the road, they're now all Very Rare [keep in mind to get to OMGSR there is a HUGE gap/difference]

So just because now they're all VR does that mean they're equal to each other? No; because their starting rarities were completely different. Time has just "hidden" this from us. Hence why rarity knowledge, dates, and the rares list, play a key point.

But this doesn't make much sense wuth what Nick explained in teh first post.
I have understood it as Galapagos explained it better, that for example, a pet is labeled rare if it's number is somewhere between 600 and 700 (I am just making this number up for the example). This is is true for all pets, independet from their year. So there might be 650 SpiderwebButterflies, and also 650 Lynx Pps on active accounts on CS. Therefore, they are equally rare, independently from their years, and should be worth the same.

First, like Hekomi said, there is a differentiation within a rarity level. A rare does not necessarily equal a rare. (See the example that they had all different rarities in the beginning, some pets are just rarer than others, but still end up having the same rarity tag)

And second. Show me that person who would give you their sunback for a vixen advent. I think you won't find anybody who would do that.

[Alucardigan]

awesome! ^3^ I was hoping there would be a change to the rarity system sometime soon. thanks Nick! this will probably make it a lot easier for us~

I love the new "OMG so common" rarity x3

[Law]

Dates will always matter, and as Vampy said a few posts up, litters will always have different rarities. It would be like, a year down the road, looking at a little now that has three outcomes:

Rare
Uncommon
Common

Three years down the road, they're now all Very Rare [keep in mind to get to OMGSR there is a HUGE gap/difference]

So just because now they're all VR does that mean they're equal to each other? No; because their starting rarities were completely different. Time has just "hidden" this from us. Hence why rarity knowledge, dates, and the rares list, play a key point.

But this doesn't make much sense wuth what Nick explained in teh first post.
I have understood it as Galapagos explained it better, that for example, a pet is labeled rare if it's number is somewhere between 600 and 700 (I am just making this number up for the example). This is is true for all pets, independet from their year. So there might be 650 SpiderwebButterflies, and also 650 Lynx Pps on active accounts on CS. Therefore, they are equally rare, independently from their years, and should be worth the same.

For all we know the range of the quantity of rares of could be from 10000-50000. Also, how would we find out the exact number of a specific pet? o_O

It's just like before with the old rarity system. Confusing.

[maggie~]

I have barely any rares anymore

[Hekomi]

Dates will always matter, and as Vampy said a few posts up, litters will always have different rarities. It would be like, a year down the road, looking at a little now that has three outcomes:

Rare
Uncommon
Common

Three years down the road, they're now all Very Rare [keep in mind to get to OMGSR there is a HUGE gap/difference]

So just because now they're all VR does that mean they're equal to each other? No; because their starting rarities were completely different. Time has just "hidden" this from us. Hence why rarity knowledge, dates, and the rares list, play a key point.

But this doesn't make much sense wuth what Nick explained in teh first post.
I have understood it as Galapagos explained it better, that for example, a pet is labeled rare if it's number is somewhere between 600 and 700 (I am just making this number up for the example). This is is true for all pets, independet from their year. So there might be 650 SpiderwebButterflies, and also 650 Lynx Pps on active accounts on CS. Therefore, they are equally rare, independently from their years, and should be worth the same.

Okay, let me explain this better.

This is just an example; but lets say in order to be very rare there need to be between 200-1200 pets on the site to qualify for very rare status. The gap is VERY large.
So lets say there are 250 Spiderweb Butterflies
But there are 1000 Lynx PPS

They are both the same rarity, but have grossly different numbers.

The numbers aren't that close together. Rare and very rare have a HUGE range.