cloudcuckoolander wrote:back around in the september 2023 rarity overhaul, i remember a staff member confirming in some way that the same ratio that decides a pet's rarity is used for all pets regardless of year, meaning that all rares are worth the same.
now, i can easily find staff confirming that only active accounts and pets actively in circulation are taken into account when deciding rarity, but despite the fact that i distinctly remember the confirmation that all rares are worth the same and other people do too (and i've discussed the post with other people and linked it as proof in the past), i now cannot find it! ;-;
i doubt that a bunch of people just dreamed that this happened and think that it's real, so i decided to come here and ask!
so the question, if anyone is able to answer:
are all pets of the same rarity equal, or at least use the same calculation or ratio or whatever, regardless of the year? aka. is it true that a 2024 rare is close in numbers to a 2010 rare?
thank you for your time!
On the technical level, with the math and everything done every month, the short answer is yes. A rare is a rare and an OMGSR is an OMGSR. Pets in inactive accounts are not taken into consideration with the math, so someone who hasnt been on in say, 8 years with a hoard of 200 ER pets isnt going to be counted in what that pets actual rarity is (if that makes any sense).
However, the long answer is that rarity is a completely different number than value. What do I mean by this? Well, rarity is calculated using math. A bunch of statistics in a spread sheet basically (it isnt actually, but its an apt analogy). Value is a user created system. This is basically the non and ma system that currently exists. These pets, which although have the same rarity as any other, have a different user assigned value because of x reason. It could be the design, the artist who made the pet, or any number of other reasons.
So say you have a Purple Sleipnir. Thats currently an Extremely Rare pet based on rarity math. Say you also have the 2010 New Years dog, which is also an Extremely Rare based on rarity math. These two pets are theoretically the same when you just look at rarity. But, when you factor in the other variable of Value, they are very very different pets with very very different worth's. Now this worth may vary player to player, but it is no longer just a statistic.
tldr: yes and no. There are two variables: Rarity and Value. The math when it all is taken into account turns from Rarity=Worth into Rarity+Value=Worth. Let me know if you'd like clarification on any of this id be happy to dive more into it!
(Also, its so so very important to stress this fact: Rarity is what staff control. This is how many of a certain outcome will grow when adopted. Value is a purely user made phenomenon. Staff have no say whatsoever in it.)
