I realize not everyone is going to get a July 08 pet, but I adopted thousands of pets offsite and I found.... commons?
Numerous 2nd gens. Are people really having trouble getting these that they needed to be in the box?
I got one moon dog, three suns, quite a few toxics and 5 UR lions.
1/1700 for a moon dog is near zebra-rarity territory.
Maybe I was just unlucky, but I see other people are having the same results as I. CS depends on the flow of new R/VR pets to keep its economy circulating.
There's been numerous fights over staff 'scamming' to get pets- a topic that has never come up before, yet now I can see why. The new UR pets are in EVERYBODY's signature as a wishlist meaning people are having to take more drastic measures to get them as there are very very few of these pets in circulation.
There's currently only one in the auction boards and it's going for a UR tiger dog+
Last year when offsite adopting I had to adopt maybe 200 to get them all. This year I got over 1700 and didn't get them all. (missing cucumber and two- the RBM and the UR rat I got at the very last minute.) Maybe there should have been more than two adopts out of the box if this is to be the ratio? Especially when there are common second gens in the box. Some people wait all year for this event. Getting a common 2nd gen for Christmas really is a kick in the teeth. I've even seen people posting they they feel guilty because they got a half decent pet (09 rare) and the posters above them got '10 rats making the whole feel of this year's advent really despondent.
Those of us in the VRH club are participating in SS where we gift each other VR hoard pets. I signed up for this because I was depending on this year's advent to replenish my stock by having these types of pets in circulation. Didn't see a single galaxy dog when I was offsite adopting so now I'm all but forced to give away a pet I can't replace because no new pets have entered the mix.
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December 18th Discussion 2011
Very Rare Hoarders; Hoard 'till they notice.
Was it really that bad?? In that case, I count myself incredibly lucky to have gotten a toxic and a VR '09 butterwolf...especially since I'm a newbie. Also, was the adoption limit two in past years?
You are incredibly lucky, so a huge congrats to you ^^ Last year there were people that were able to obtain four Moondogs/Sundogs and heaps of people got VR pets. The adoption limit was still two, but there was a lot more people posting about the extremely valuable pets they adopted. This year I've come across one Moondog, a couple of Sundogs and Toxics, no Sorbets, one Zebra, and only two UR pets.
I've actually seen a few moondogs scattered about(besides mine), and maybe 2 or 3 sundogs.
I've seen kind of a lot of toxics.
Also, I've seen a few zebras as well.
I've only seen maybe 3 people with the UR Lion though.
This is my first Dec. 18th...I really didn't expect it to be such a...well, sad event. Everyone just seems sad about what they got...
I think we were supposed to wait until Christmas to give our SS their stuff, but I already gave mine to them. I think they--and everyone really--needed something to cheer them up from the let-down.
I feel really bad about all this complaining... even though I'm not meaning to sound like I'm complaining, because I'm not. I'm grateful for this re-release and happy for those that did get good pets. It's just a bit of a let down after the previous years and all the excitement has just gone down the drain with people's hopes of getting dreamies.
I'm also kinda disappointed... I've been collecting pets for my nephew, and I told him about today, he was so excited to 'get a pet barely anyone has!' and he ended up getting a stone dog that's only an uncommon:
and some other dog, I don't even know what it is:
I feel bad that the poor kid got so excited, only for him to get some 2010 uncommon.