Thread:Nmtan/@comment-5354013-20130910215139/@comment-11259553-20130918035003

Thanks for the explanation. I take it this 60:40 holds true for Mud/Waterfall too?

I think I may just not implement this due to how easy it is for them to change it without it becoming immediately obvious. (As I suspect was happening in our Mud/Waterfall testing...)

What happens when those factors you mention are the same? Not sure if it can happen in DC ... I haven't looked at display order enough to recall off the top of my head ... but it can happen in Monster Legends where rarity and breeding time are the same. Most of the Epic pairs for instance.

Not enough trials/reports to be sure I got them in the right order. It seemed in the cases I looked at that it was the lower level first element that would correspond to the more common result. I wasn't looking at any of the underlying factors at the time so it was all "in-game" analysis. For instance: (might be old breeding times, this was what it was when I was testing ... haven't been able to play my main account for a month now :

Scorchpeg (fire) more common than Skipples (light) - both E, both 35 hours

Terracrank (earth) more common than Duchess (magic) - both E, both 27 hours

Fliploch (water) more common than Razfeesh (dark) - both E, both 20 hours

Rhynex (nature) more common than Rabidex (thunder) - both E, Rabidex 6.5, Rhynex 5

Am I right about the relationship between these E's? Rhynex:Rabidex fits what you're saying due to breeding time differences, but the others are the same in regards to both rarity and breeding time (as well as earnings which I first considered given DC's old breeding system).

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That leads to the question, what happens when there's more than just 2 possible results? In Monster Legends it seems the ratios stay the same but the odds of course fall for all results when more monsters are involved. At least outside of Legends, which are a fixed percent as you say,and Epics which I wasn't able to test at all.

The 70:30 fits closely to my testing. I saw ~3:1 for Firanda:Pandaken when breeding Fire Lion + Panda in over 200 trials.

I saw ~5:3:1 for Fire Lion:Firanda:Pandaken when using Fire Lion + Pandaken also in over 200 trials.

I wasn't able to test any combinations that would add an Epic to the mix due to longer breeding times.