The Rarity Trade Guide

[Horror]

this post shows the huskies, bats and a few of the others dropping back to rare
also used this and this among a few others just to confirm the drops

@scorps, most were just demand
especially with the rats, there's old posts on the old list's thread blatantly ignoring rats and some pets just because they're "low demand" or "not actively sought after"; and those that are already on you can see are super misplaced because again, rats. i can imagine that a few of them may simply have been overlooked or forgotten about as well

[nickjr]

Some of the old history (now long forgotten and possibly irrelevant) might've also come into play back in the day.

For example, you might've noticed that the Main List has a lot of July 2008 and August 2008 pets, then we've got the September List with a lot of September 2008 pets, then... the next list is the Advent List with a lot of Advent 2008 pets. What happened with October 2008 and November 2008?

They used to be ridiculously common thanks to CS suddenly growing very popular (possibly due to finally being able to adopt pets on accounts in late September 2008) in October 2008 and the lack of adoption limits until the middle of November 2008 (at which point the damage had already been done--there was one user who adopted like 10,000 [not an exaggeration unless my memory is failing me] card dogs trying to get the Joker and they remained active for many years)

By 2010 they should've been rare enough to become included, and they were at least considered for an old, old project (the "add-on" list if anyone remembers that), but... I guess the lingering "oh my bloody god they're EVERYWHERE" sentiment held on too long and then they just faded into obscurity despite finally becoming rare enough.

(edit: I've rehashed this enough times that I'm starting to think I should make a thread with a bunch of CS Historical Fun Facts That Might Impact Rarities LOL because these things are obviously not very well-known--why would they be? welp)

[scorps]

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omg yes i was just thinking before i got to the end of your post how i love your history lessons and thats not even sarcasm
you should def make a thread with that kind of fun fact history info that you know!

[softpaw]

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omg yes i was just thinking before i got to the end of your post how i love your history lessons and thats not even sarcasm
you should def make a thread with that kind of fun fact history info that you know!

hope this isn't off topic but I wanted to say the same! i feel like you are the unofficial "CS historian" if that makes sense! every post you make is super interesting o:

[I--Quit]

I'm very interested in this. I'd love to contribute.

So my main question is - how do we know what's rarer - a pet that started as VR, then turned OMGSR in 2011, and never fell back; or a pet that started out as OMGSR later on, and never fell to VR?

It's just so confusing to me.

We can't tell

Honestly, fair. That's just always going to be an issue unfortunately..

[Sinbreaker]

I'll be sure to update the front soon when I get home from work, since a lot of good information was added!

I'll also try organizing it a little better to explain the thread/goal

[--I am Sherlocked--]

I support this. ^.^

May be a bit late to jump on the boat but read all 12 pages and having this list seems like a good idea. If any help is necessary, let me know and I will help where I can!

['Possum]

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omg yes i was just thinking before i got to the end of your post how i love your history lessons and thats not even sarcasm
you should def make a thread with that kind of fun fact history info that you know!

hope this isn't off topic but I wanted to say the same! i feel like you are the unofficial "CS historian" if that makes sense! every post you make is super interesting o:

Yes please!
We need the CS Historian to write everything down and have the CS History Guide be taken into consideration when trading as well!

^_^

[Lufi]

@ Ironic Equation
Yeap, we working with this lists of pets, but we found that a lot of pets there is missing!
For example nick sunback PPS, nick blue toxic or rat from april 2009 which went up to VR much longer than most of advent/september list pets.

[Sinbreaker]

Its to early to say anything but so far the voters seem to be leaning towards 2008-2012.
Some things i've read questions/concerns about

-Will UR's be counted? (Disregarding years)
-Will Store Pets be counted?
-If there is a date cut off, what about specific pets that have high rarity from recent years?
-Comparing Values with OMGSoRares
-Will Dates effect placement/Value?
-Are all VR's going to be added?

I think these should be discussed with the community, as they seem like big steps to getting a general idea of what to put.