by Shinryu » Sun Jul 26, 2020 7:01 am
The macaws from the machine trade in cost a token each, but the location you got the parts from only gave you a token every hour, as opposed to the banners, so it was still essentially the same as a 3-token trade-in, which is a fairly standard number^^ But the jungle event was the first time we got macaw adopts, so people were hyped for them, haha.
Tons of people hoarded them, and tons more got extras for trading later, so it's no wonder they ended up the most common token outcomes in the end :'D
With token pets it's really usually a combo of how much effort it takes to get the pet, plus how likely it is to get a given outcome from a trade-in, plus how popular they are.
More popular pets are bought more often, so they often end up more common, and if they're popular enough that may even even out how much time you have to put into getting them.
Something that comes to my mind here is the ravens from the slumber party. You had to go through a trade-in chain for two different items first, and the NPCs had actual waiting times between trade-ins, so that you were limited to how often you could do them no matter how many tokens you had.
But the ravens themselves were so popular that even now, the black one is still uncommon, seven years later^^

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