Gionori wrote:I've seen some people be confused about the graph distribution, so this is about how I understand it:
Keep in mind this is a
vast oversimplification lol. I'm not huge on trading or the CS economy myself, so there's definitely more nuance, disparity per year, big gaps in amount of pet, etc.
Also I wanted an excuse to draw some little guys.
That is an amazing diagram and is basically how it works. Rarity shouldn't be thought as a huge over-arcing thing, its just something that impacts individual pet designs. Say you adopt a dog litter, that came with 20 puppies with 5 being one pattern, 5 being another pattern, 9 being a further pattern, and 1 being a different one too. The puppies with 5 to each pattern common, since you were likely to get one of those outcomes. The 1 that was different would be uncommon, since you had less of a chance to get it, and the ones with 9 would be very common. Thats their base rarities. But, you have one out come that's uncommon, 2 outcomes that are common, and 1 out come that is very common. Thus, there are more common pets than very commons because there were more outcomes that became common.
Hope that makes sense to everyone!