Recent Rarity Change List [January Update in progress!!]

[nickjr]

The adult tiger store pets were VR on release though. Does this mean the whole rarity spectrum got adjusted? Because if they were VR to begin with inactive acounts can't be the answer.

Could also be that a lot of accounts that were active when the tiger store pets were released but did not have them are now inactive

Ick, that's a mouthful. Description of the accounts I'm talking about:
> active when tiger store pets were released
> inactive now
> no tiger store pets

That was my best guess as well; that there were just a lot of non-tiger owners among the last bunch of accounts to be marked inactive, so the average tiger per user ratio is higher now?
But it seems like a really unlikely scenario especially after the 18th... but it's not like I have a better idea aha.

I think if adjustments had been made to the rarity calculations, we'd be seeing a lot more changes.
Literally all the other changes make sense to me or were even expected, the tigers are the only thing that puzzled me.

Maybe they were on the edge all along? The other two tigers were already rare, so I wouldn't find it too surprising, but then again I don't really know whether there are really that many people buying the pets separately as opposed to buying the entire set. But I would think that the majority of store pets are bought as sets by the users who are paying the real money?

Edit: The tigers were available in December 2016. I could definitely see a lot of dishonest new "users" and honest but disappointed new users going inactive/quitting after December... If these tigers were really on the edge all along, then that push may have been big enough to have them cross the line into Rare territory

Also I'm pretty sure the inactivity line is at 12ish months. One sec and I'll find a post
Edit: viewtopic.php?p=76235466#p76235466

[horchata]

Maybe they were on the edge all along? The other two tigers were already rare, so I wouldn't find it too surprising, but then again I don't really know whether there are really that many people buying the pets separately as opposed to buying the entire set. But I would think that the majority of store pets are bought as sets by the users who are paying the real money?

i think usually that would be the case but maybe lion epps' are exceptions because the demand for them is so high? like you pay 20C$ per individual pet, and any discounts for buying the full set aren't very significant anyway, so people buy maybe 3-4 lion epps' instead of the entire set because they know the demand for them in the future will be so high? the same thing happened with the cheetah store pets, with the epps being rare and the rest being very rare because there were a lot more pps' bought individually than sets (i think) but i guess the tigers being on the very borderline of very rare is really the only explanation for them being rare now haha


edit:: oh okay that makes a lot more sense if they were used to scam and a lot of new players quit till next 18th but it's still pretty unusual

[nickjr]

Welp this is what I get for editing a lot after I post lol I edited my post quite a bit ^

[Lucikan]

Common -> Uncommon
(Correct me if I'm wrong ^^)

[horchata]

Common -> Uncommon
(Correct me if I'm wrong ^^)

i'm pretty sure they've been uncommon since release, this is the common outcome : )

[depressedanonymous,]

Anyone notice one of the UR Zebras went from OMGSR to rare?

[lucky333123]

VR —> Rare

[ThunderCedar]

Anyone notice one of the UR Zebras went from OMGSR to rare?

Yes I posted about this.

Pet's name: Donated
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Rare to uncommon

this wasn't rare

Huh when I got him, he was rare. Maybe it's a old change

This was definitely rare.

[♥Sterek♥]

The adult tiger store pets were VR on release though. Does this mean the whole rarity spectrum got adjusted? Because if they were VR to begin with inactive acounts can't be the answer.

Could also be that a lot of accounts that were active when the tiger store pets were released but did not have them are now inactive

Ick, that's a mouthful. Description of the accounts I'm talking about:
> active when tiger store pets were released
> inactive now
> no tiger store pets

I used to be inactive for years but always logged on around the 18th for the rereleases? Maybe a lot of inactive accounts got online for the rereleases again changing the site ratio

[ptolemaea]

pretty sure this guy changed uc>rare! got him the other day as an uc, but please let me know if im wrong XD

I'm 100% positive I got him as an uncommon too, not sure when this happened

It was uc! I love this guys design