We need your feedback on an update to the rarity system!

[wolfykins]

Words that are outlined in white are EXTREMELY hard for me to read, I hope staff does not do anything like that

[skrundle]

i'm late to this discussion, but i'd like to propose (as per Lacuna's post) that instead of "Extremely" we could use "Super". So it would go Rare > Very Rare > Super Rare > OMG So Rare. if anyone has input i'd love to hear it.

edit: nvm i'm seeing that people have suggested this!! cool, i missed it bc i jumped straight from lacuna's post to most recent (: i do agree that the white outlines are very hard to read though!

[Saphiric]

Words that are outlined in white are EXTREMELY hard for me to read, I hope staff does not do anything like that

Or if they do so maybe they could have multiple options on the text? Some without that option

[beemo]

As far as naturally flowing words/phrases go for increments, "super" and "super duper" come to mind.

OMG so common
Super duper common
Super common
Common
Uncommon
Super Uncommon
Super duper uncommon
Rare
Super rare
Super duper rare
OMG so rare

To me, that's more clear than trying to think of essentially other synonyms for rare. Like elusive? Prevalent? Legendary? Mega? Ulta? Without context, put together, it's impossible to know what the natural order is. So while cute and unique, I think it would make things more confusing. But I think it's easier to see if something is "super" X, then the "super duper" is like extra emphasis.
-fireflii

ACTUALLY, i think this is very cute and might be my favorite suggestion yet for adding words. it's simple, it's funny, and i think it's childish in the most perfect way, and since this is a website where kids are welcomed, i think it's very fitting.

[Floofi.fox]

I've seen some people be confused about the graph distribution, so this is about how I understand it:
Keep in mind this is a vast oversimplification lol. I'm not huge on trading or the CS economy myself, so there's definitely more nuance, disparity per year, big gaps in amount of pet, etc.
Also I wanted an excuse to draw some little guys.

this makes more sense now, thank you for the very helpful graph! (and cute animals, lol)

[Quillflight]

The current rarity stages will always have a special place in my heart… but that BELL CURVE.. OUFFF… I love it. Gotta vote for the four new categories.. that bell curve graph is SCRUMPTIOUS

[EmberzTale]

Proposed naming-------------Whimsical naming-----------------------Whimsical unique*
*with unique starting letters for all one-word labels

OMG So Common ------------ Universal -------------------------------- Pervasive
Extremely Common ---------- Abundant -------------------------------- Abundant
Very Common --------------- Very Common ---------------------------- Ordinary
Common -------------------- Common --------------------------------- Common
Uncommon ------------------ Uncommon ------------------------------ Uncommon
Very Uncommon --------------- Scarce ----------------------------------- Scarce
Extremely Uncommon ---------- Elusive ----------------------------------- Elusive
Rare -------------------------- Rare ------------------------------------ Rare
Very Rare -------------------- Very Rare -------------------------------- Fabled
Extremely Rare --------------- Legendary ------------------------------- Legendary
OMG So Rare ---------------- Mythical --------------------------------- Mythical

-snip-

I support these names if the rarity system were to be changed. They sound so much less messy and clunky.

[beemo]

Proposed naming-------------Whimsical naming-----------------------Whimsical unique*
*with unique starting letters for all one-word labels

OMG So Common ------------ Universal -------------------------------- Pervasive
Extremely Common ---------- Abundant -------------------------------- Abundant
Very Common --------------- Very Common ---------------------------- Ordinary
Common -------------------- Common --------------------------------- Common
Uncommon ------------------ Uncommon ------------------------------ Uncommon
Very Uncommon --------------- Scarce ----------------------------------- Scarce
Extremely Uncommon ---------- Elusive ----------------------------------- Elusive
Rare -------------------------- Rare ------------------------------------ Rare
Very Rare -------------------- Very Rare -------------------------------- Fabled
Extremely Rare --------------- Legendary ------------------------------- Legendary
OMG So Rare ---------------- Mythical --------------------------------- Mythical

-snip-

I support these names if the rarity system were to be changed. They sound so much less messy and clunky.

they do sound better, i just think the issue is they would be very confusing for a large part of the community.

[Fellefan]

I did not consider super and very being too similar, I'm not a native english speaker (even though I forget that sometimes) so to me the word super felt like a very big and obvious step-up. but after reading from a lot of you who see it differently, and asking google to define the word, I can absolutely see why it could get confusing.

so I'm going to propose something else and see if it sticks:
what if we used extra instead of extremely? I hope that has a better distinction, it sounds right to me but again I could be wrong.

[Pyromaniacal]

I really like Panne's edit of my original rarity stars mockup, so I sat down and made a version with the colors proposed by Fellefan! I wasn't liking how the "shiny" bar was looking (it just looked a lot like the SR bar tbh), but thought the rainbow OMGSR was cute and hopefully not too similar to the custom bar...? Who knows.

Light mode ------ Dark mode

I do like the "super duper" name for the new "extremely/super/ultra" tiers, it's rather whimsical in line with tiers like "OMGSC/R". I am in the camp that we should preserve as many existing rarity names as possible - assuming that 4 rarities will be added by the looks of the poll, that's a big enough change already that I would imagine keeping at least some tier names will make the adjustment easier for most people.