Talk:Breeding Calculator/@comment-121.214.52.174-20121009062426/@comment-4830404-20121009141550

Not worth the trouble in my opinion, but there is no harm in making a page for people to post results. However, since there's no real guarantee that everyone follows correct data collection procedures, I will not be adding any of the data to the breeding calculator. There are a few things that can happen:

1) People can have perfectly good intentions but make mistakes.  They could report breeding two dragons that they were sure they had put into the Breeding Den, but actually they put a different pair on accident.

2) Selective memories. It takes a lot of discipline to record every single result.

3) People can make up results that look perfectly legitimate. They could just make a data set that the current data is leaning towards, and just submit that.  It would skew the data with false information.  A troll that says "I got Diamond using Fire Dragon + Fire Dragon!" is easy to detect, but someone who uses the prevailing pattern is not so.

I'm not about to judge who's trustworthy and who's not, so I think the page should just be made and people can edit in their results. But there will be a disclaimer that the percentages are just an estimate and might not be accurate.

It would be nice if the page could just be organized by each dragon name and then people edit the pair they used underneath it with a tally count, but that would make it difficult to merge the data into a %. Putting it in by breeding pair where people tally the number and types of offspring they got is easier, but the page would become quite gigantic. I guess if it was separated into sections and linked in the table of contents it would be accessible at least.

I could see something like this:

== Dragon 1 & Dragon 2 ==

Table column 1 (Offspring) | Table column 2 (number of occurrences)

We could sort it by dragon color group but I don't think it should be done. For completion's sake, it would be good to have the results to show that Super Rares don't give any more % of rare dragons than Commons do. Or, in contrast, if that assumption is wrong then it is also important to note.