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As a result, they can be more difficult to find, and therefore more valuable. | As a result, they can be more difficult to find, and therefore more valuable. | ||
To help users determine the fairness of their trade offers, each CS pet receives a rarity | To help users determine the fairness of their trade offers, each CS pet receives a rarity that indicates how many of it currently exist in the game. This way, a common pet can be easily distinguished from a pet that is very rare. | ||
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The idea behind this is to see how many users are potentially trying to get a pet for their collection, and how many copies of said pet are available. | The idea behind this is to see how many users are potentially trying to get a pet for their collection, and how many copies of said pet are available. | ||
To make sure these numbers reflect the actual availability of the pets, only active accounts and their pets are counted in the process. | To make sure these numbers reflect the actual availability of the pets as closely as possible, only active accounts and their pets are counted in the process. | ||
An account is considered active as long as it has been logged into within the past | An account is considered active as long as it has been logged into within the past few months. | ||
Accounts that are inactive are not permanently marked as such - if a user logs back in, their account and pets will once more be counted towards rarity calculations in coming updates. | Accounts that are inactive are not permanently marked as such - if a user logs back in, their account and pets will once more be counted towards rarity calculations in coming updates. | ||
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======Regular Rarities====== | ======Regular Rarities====== | ||
Regular site pets are all assigned one of seven rarity types. | |||
Pets that exist in abundance receive tags on the "common" spectrum, whereas pets that exist in smaller numbers than site users will fall into the "rare" categories. | Pets that exist in abundance receive tags on the "common" spectrum, whereas pets that exist in smaller numbers than site users will fall into the "rare" categories. | ||
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There is a chance for a still growing pet to already have a known rarity. | There is a chance for a still growing pet to already have a known rarity. | ||
If the pet was adopted very late, or has been adopted through a re-release event, its possible outcomes may already be known, and thus the eventual rarity can be | If the pet was adopted very late, or has been adopted through a re-release event, its possible outcomes may already be known, and thus the eventual rarity can be inferred from its growth pattern. | ||
To do this, check out the archive's page of the litter, and take note of which growth days and stages correspond with the unknown pet. | To do this, check out the archive's page of the litter, and take note of which growth days and stages correspond with the unknown pet. | ||
======Custom====== | ======Custom====== | ||
So-called ' | So-called 'customs' are pets with unique designs that have been created specifically for their owners. They have never been released for the public, and are not official site pets. | ||
In the early years of the site, custom pets have sometimes been given out to regular users, such as friends of Tess, as gifts. Nowadays they are almost exclusively given out to site staff as a thank you for their work. | In the early years of the site, custom pets have sometimes been given out to regular users, such as friends of Tess, as gifts. Nowadays they are almost exclusively given out to site staff as a thank you for their work. | ||
Revision as of 23:46, 10 August 2019
Rarities are one of the central aspects of trading pets on Chicken Smoothie. This guide will give you an overview of the meaning and mechanics behind them.
What is rarity?
Every pet on Chicken Smoothie exists in limited numbers. The pets that are available for adoption change regularly, with previous sets becoming retired, and as a result there is only a finite amount of each outcome in the game.
To obtain pets that were retired from adoption, users need to trade for them from people who already own them. But not all pets are available in equal numbers: Through a variety of factors, such as the age of the pet, the probability of receiving a certain outcome, or its popularity, some pets are rarer than others. As a result, they can be more difficult to find, and therefore more valuable.
To help users determine the fairness of their trade offers, each CS pet receives a rarity that indicates how many of it currently exist in the game. This way, a common pet can be easily distinguished from a pet that is very rare.
Calculation
A pet's rarity tag is determined by how many of it exist in the game, compared to how many user accounts exist on the site. The idea behind this is to see how many users are potentially trying to get a pet for their collection, and how many copies of said pet are available.
To make sure these numbers reflect the actual availability of the pets as closely as possible, only active accounts and their pets are counted in the process.
An account is considered active as long as it has been logged into within the past few months. Accounts that are inactive are not permanently marked as such - if a user logs back in, their account and pets will once more be counted towards rarity calculations in coming updates.
Pets will only be assigned a rarity once they are no longer available for adoption.
Rarity Tags
Rarities of CS pets are not displayed in absolute numbers. Instead, they are represented by so-called 'rarity tags' or 'rarity bars'. There are seven official rarity tags, which -depending on user choice- may be displayed as plain text or colourful image bars.
A pet's rarity will be displayed on its profile page, in the archives, in trades, and -by user choice- when viewing a pet group.
To change between display methods, scroll to the bottom of any pet group, and click the link that reads "Change pet display settings". These settings are applied to the account, and therefore in effect when viewing both your own and other users' pets.
Regular Rarities
Regular site pets are all assigned one of seven rarity types. Pets that exist in abundance receive tags on the "common" spectrum, whereas pets that exist in smaller numbers than site users will fall into the "rare" categories.
The rarities are, in ascending order:
OMG so common (blue) - Very common (teal) - Common (green) - Uncommon (yellow) - Rare (orange) - Very rare (red) - OMG so rare (purple)
Note that a rarity tag only shows how many of a specific pet exist on the site. They do not indicate how many different outcomes have been assigned this tag. Any given 'omg so common' pet is overall more abundant than a pet that is 'common', but there may be more pets that are tagged as 'common' than there are outcomes with an 'omg so common' tag.
Unknown
Pets that have not yet been assigned a rarity will show up with a 'rarity unknown' tag. This tag comes in two versions, depending on whether a pet is still growing, or fully grown.
In text-only display, they show up as 'unknown' and 'unknown until adult'.
If rarities are set to be displayed as image bars, the colour of the bar's question mark will differentiate between the two, with a blue question mark indicating a fully grown pet, and a purple question mark informing that the pet has not finished growing yet.
There is a chance for a still growing pet to already have a known rarity. If the pet was adopted very late, or has been adopted through a re-release event, its possible outcomes may already be known, and thus the eventual rarity can be inferred from its growth pattern. To do this, check out the archive's page of the litter, and take note of which growth days and stages correspond with the unknown pet.
Custom
So-called 'customs' are pets with unique designs that have been created specifically for their owners. They have never been released for the public, and are not official site pets. In the early years of the site, custom pets have sometimes been given out to regular users, such as friends of Tess, as gifts. Nowadays they are almost exclusively given out to site staff as a thank you for their work.
To make them distinguishable from official site pets, they are assigned a 'custom' tag that shows as a rainbow coloured image bar.
What influences rarity?
outcome probability, popularity, release type, length of release, pet age
Rarity Updates
heres an explanation on rarity updates and how pets change rarities over time
Timeline
- 2009
- → October 8: visible rarity tags added
- more years
- → you get the idea