SabrinaB wrote:Hoe do we know there are 1091 Maps?
Back in 2011 after the event ended, you could actually see the items that were on the NPC accounts that you traded tokens into for other tokens/pets. You might've been able to see it for a few years after that but eventually they changed it so the items on the NPC accounts couldn't be seen anymore. But you had to trade a cooked meat into one NPC to get the map token and then the map token into either another or the same NPC to get the royal lion family set of pets.
When looking at the items the NPCs had, you just had to take the number of cooked meats that were on the NPC accounts, which meant that's how many maps were ever on user accounts in total, and then subtract the number of maps that were on NPC accounts, which was the number of maps that were traded in, and the answer would be the number of maps that would still be remaining on user accounts.
That number was 1091. That's the max number of maps that could ever be in circulation at one time unless they decide to rerelease items at some point. If they don't, then there can never be more than that number of maps in circulation. And that's not taking ones on inactive accounts or in a forever home for collection or other purposes. There are probably not very many maps available for circulation at all anymore.
~ElijahWilkes