Easter 2016 Discussion Thread

[agentfourteen]

Seeing that these unicorns are VERY easy to obtain, I don't think one will be rare...

A lot of event pets are rare though, to get the newer players rares they can trade up with.

It doesn't necessarily work like that. Because the unicorns are a free adopt and not a trade-in, they will almost definitely be less rare than the trade-in pets (although certain outcomes from the litter may be more rare)

I always thought it was the other way around, because it's easier for one person to trade in a bunch of tokens and obtain 10 of the same token pet, whereas the free adopts are only given out once to each person. Or does it get canceled out by the fact that pretty much everyone who participates gets the free pets, but not everyone has enough tokens to stock up on token pets?

[Saphira344]

A lot of event pets are rare though, to get the newer players rares they can trade up with.

That's not how rarities work ^^
A pet's rarity depends on how many of them exist on active accounts.
Token pets during events more often end up uncommon and rare, whereas the freebies are more common, because more people adopt the freebies.
The more difficult an event pet is to get, the less people will get it.
The less popular an event pet is, the less people will get it.

The rarity of pets depends on the numbers, and during events users' decisions matter even more than usual, because while staff can manipulate the likelihood of a pet growing into a certain outcome, the likelihood of someone trading in tokens for a certain pet depends on how much people like it^^

http://www.chickensmoothie.com/accounts ... erid=41024
this group can prove that, event pets from 2014 that you traded tockens for all uncommon.

[fabian]

how many unicorn outcomes are there? if possible, could you link me to them? i have four of them, so i believe im only missing one. thanks!

There's five, and they're all on the first post on the front page <:

[Konata.]

The black unicorn is really hard to find, and I thought I'd be lucky enough to get all the outcomes! >_< I find that all three of the rainbow ones will be uncommons or maybe rare for the black one?

[Amaranthos]

I always thought it was the other way around, because it's easier for one person to trade in a bunch of tokens and obtain 10 of the same token pet, whereas the free adopts are only given out once to each person. Or does it get canceled out by the fact that pretty much everyone who participates gets the free pets, but not everyone has enough tokens to stock up on token pets?

Precisely. It is very easy for everyone to grab the free pets, but getting the trade-in pets means you have to get the tokens, and to get the tokens you have to find banners. One hour can get your roughly 3 tokens if you don't trade for them with other users, so most of the trade-in pets require you to search for over an hour just to get one, and that's assuming you get the tokens you need.
So the freebies get adopted at higher rates than the token pets c:
A look through the archive easily confirms that.

[linkin]

Anyone notice that some of the unicorn foals have long ears, and some have short ears? So cute!

[Saphira344]

Anyone notice that some of the unicorn foals have long ears, and some have short ears? So cute!

the long ears also have bunny tails.

[acatalepsy]

The black unicorn is really hard to find, and I thought I'd be lucky enough to get all the outcomes! >_< I find that all three of the rainbow ones will be uncommons or maybe rare for the black one?

Probably at most uncommon. I very highly doubt rare, unless a split occurs, and even then....

[fabian]

The black unicorn is really hard to find, and I thought I'd be lucky enough to get all the outcomes! >_< I find that all three of the rainbow ones will be uncommons or maybe rare for the black one?

Actually, I think they'll all be commons/vc and the black one will just be a simple uncommon, but I could be wrong.
A lot of people seem to like it and are practically throwing their trades at whoever has one aha

[Lincoln]

If I don't get a newborn stage PPS unicorn, I will scream.
We NEED one! I've been wishing and praying for one since I joined CS.