New Species Discovered

[pinkgothic]

Hello, everyone!

We did a booboo, but we fixed it, and we'll try to make it up to you.

Background:

Most creatures on the site follow the convention that a mixed-case gene is twice as likely as a lowercase or uppercase gene to drop in the cupboard. So, for example, looking only at the 'Markinga' gene of an Avka Felo, about 50% of the Avka Felos you'd get from the cupboard would have 'Markinga:Aa', 25% would have 'Markinga:aa' and 25% would have 'Markinga:AA'.

Since event creatures drop less often and we've already strived to make all variants of event creatures collectible, they don't follow that rule*. You should get all variants equally. Just looking at the Terura Fisisto 'Body' gene, you would get 'Body:Aa' from the cupboard 33% of the time, 'Body:AA' from the cupboard 33% of the time, and 'Body:aa' from the cupboard 33% of the time.

(* they are not the only exception, but this is the one that's relevant for this post!)

Bug:

So... uh, yeah.



Turns out solstice creatures weren't doing that.

The bug fix involved 5% 'fix the typo' and 95% managing our developers' sanity by taking all sharp objects away from them and locking them into a padded room until the mad, anguished cackling subsided.



Ohgodohgodohgod. We're sorry.

What we're doing about it:

The new creatures are thankfully new enough and will be dropping for long enough that the fix we submitted a few hours ago should already be making this much less painful to get a complete set if you're a completionist. But this has screwed up all past solstice drops, we feel bad about it, and so we're going to boost those a little more than usual.

They will still taper off, but they'll be more common than they usually are for the next weeks.

Old solstice creatures usually stop dropping by the 15th of January. This time we're extending that time so they stop by the end of the 25th (like the new fellas!).

We hope that will help!