CS Rarity List [WIP] - status update on page 75

[Fizzlebee]

Thanks Grr and Crestalia, I've made sure to include that. ^^ Here's the rough draft so far. Thoughts, opinions, suggestions?

Getting Started

I want to help! How do I get started?

Great! The front post will be updated with the project we are currently working on. We keep an updated list of available pet ID ranges to count in the thread, so go ahead and check the last page or two to see what ranges are available for you to count. If no one else has claimed the range you would like to count, go ahead and post that you will be taking xxxx-xxxxx range.

Go ahead and download this project's template document here: [Link to template]

What do I do now?

Fill in the ID numbers with the range you are assigned. If you don't know how to automatically fill in the ID numbers, follow the instructions in the next section. Fill in what pet belongs to each ID number. The litter column will fill in automatically. There are examples in your template document. Important: Please take a look at the examples and make sure that you are using the correct spelling for each pet. If you're still unsure, take a look at a completed ID count that someone has posted to make sure you're filling everything out correctly.

How do I fill in the pet ID numbers more quickly?

Start typing the first few ID numbers in your set. Highlight those numbers. Click the white triangle in the bottom right corner of the boxes and drag it down to the bottom of where your column ends. If you still need help you can consult Microsoft's tutorial here: Link

What are the addons to move from one pet to the next more quickly?

Firefox: "FastPrevNext"
Chrome: "URL Next", "Next Page"

I've finished filling out my pet count, how do I share it?

When you're done, you can upload the finished Excel doc to whatever document sharing site you prefer. Most sites will have a shareable link for your document that you can copy and paste here. Google Docs/Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive are all good options if you're not sure what to use. Due to CS's privacy rules we do ask that you use a throwaway account on these file sharing sites with a "junk" email that you do not use for your personal/daily life.


FAQ

How do I get a shareable link on Googles Docs/Drive?

Open the file in Google Docs (or Google Drive). Click "File" on the top menu bar, then "Share" from the dropdown menu (it should be the first option). A pop-up window should appear. Click "Get Shareable Link" in the upper right hand corner of the pop-up. Make sure the text above the link says "Anyone with the link can view". There's a little triangle with a drop-down menu to change this option if it says anything else. "Link sharing on" should also be written above "Anyone with the link can view." The link given in the text box should be the correct one.

What do we do if the pet ID is a pet adopted off account?

At the moment, off-account adopts are being counted. Whether a pet is on or off account doesn't really matter since the same rarity rules apply.

I got an error message that a pet doesn't exist/couldn't be found. What does that mean?

This means that the pet was deleted. Write in "deleted" as the pet.

What do we do if a pet is deleted?

Write deleted.

If we find pets that are not on the list being counted (paw print rats, 08 butterfly wolves, sec gens, etc.) do you input it as "other pet"? What if it's Very Rare or a list pet?

Yes, we are only counting specific pets from each month. This is because we are focusing on pets that we do not have a lot of existing rarity data on.

[Solloby]

That looks great guys!
The only thing I think is missing is that it is very important to spell the pet's name correctly based on the examples. If you use an alternate name or spelling for a pet they won't be counted in the data. Should that go under the Getting Starting section maybe?

[Fizzlebee]

Updated/edited it. c:

[Solloby]

Thanks! You guys are all such big helps <3
I'll see if I have time to make some templates for our next projects tonight or tomorrow.

[nickjr]

If we're gonna do July 2008 next, some things to keep in mind:

> Sorbets and the Lime and Ice rats went up July 23 (scroll down the newsbox here)
> Galaxies went up... um. I thought they went up July 13 but I just found a CEG adopted on July 5, oops (@Sol disregard what I said in the second trade about Galaxies. Clearly, I didn't look around enough in the July Growths thread )
> Only four dog litters and three rat litters were available at the start of July. July 2008 Archives for your convenience =P The dog litters must've been the moon, sun, growing/pps white, and coon/noncoon litters, and two of the rat litters must've been the single-outcome toxic and three-outcome speckled litters. The galaxy, pawprint, and brown hooded rats are unaccounted for. The galaxies must've been released later, but still early on--no later than July 5, I guess. The brown hooded rat is the same guy from Advent 2008, so we can ignore it, poor thing lol. But was that the third rat litter? When was the pawprint litter released?

(I would look through pet IDs myself but I'm going cross-eyed and it's late so I'm going to bed)

[Solloby]

... so you're saying thye Ice Rats should've been in the August counts? :\ *facedesk*

The first dog litters were definitely sun, moon, white & coon. That's 11 outcomes out of 15 mentioned. CEG followed shortly after so July 5 sounds about right. 4 rats across 2 litters... Flower Rat & Speckled Rats, agree it must've been them.
Pawprint rats came out with the Ice Rats I think, based on my own adoptions? (July 24th so July 23).

Edit: Front page updated!

Regarding the Ice & Pawprint Rats, I know some are marked in our existing August spreadsheets, but I could go through all the 'Other Pets' and identify ones marked as Other I suppose? There's about 3000 of them; many are cats/bfws/2ndgens. With that said, we do have some rarity change data on them; the speckled rats at least. We could maybe use the rerelease data to guide the Ice/Pawprints? So frustrated they were missed, I didn't realise they were released so late in July since they were listed in the archives then.

[Pelicandreams]

Regarding the Ice & Pawprint Rats, I know some are marked in our existing August spreadsheets, but I could go through all the 'Other Pets' and identify ones marked as Other I suppose? There's about 3000 of them; many are cats/bfws/2ndgens. With that said, we do have some rarity change data on them; the speckled rats at least. We could maybe use the rerelease data to guide the Ice/Pawprints? So frustrated they were missed, I didn't realise they were released so late in July since they were listed in the archives then.

If you need help looking through the 'Other Pets' in the August spreadsheets and identifying the ice/pawprint rats, just let me know.

[nickjr]

... yyyyep maybe we should've counted the lime/ice rats with the August pets... didn't realize that either OTL

On the sorta-plus side, that old news post refers to them explicitly as "The blue and green rats" which most likely means that they were separately adoptable. Since they're single-outcome litters...

[Fizzlebee]

Lucky for us one or two of the counters actually wrote in when they found the ice rats or the pawprint rats. There's at least a handful of ID sets with the rats already filled in. Going back and just filling in data for the rats we missed shouldn't take too long at all. ^^

[Sinbreaker]

I made sure to mark the rats on the two speadsheets I did ^^; As well as a few other rats I think? Any that were list at least.
If I wasn't on vacation right now and in an area with poor wifi I would help go over the other sheets. When I return Saturday, if help is still needed I'll count some of the Other pets to see if any are rats.