Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-84.212.227.33-20130126200757/@comment-9134334-20130128224329

Hyper ch wrote: KittehMaster wrote:

You're right, the percentage stays the same. However, the overall probability of having the dragon from any of your breeding attempts, does increase with every breeding attempt. For instance, someone who breeds their dragons 100 times is much more likely to have one than someone who only breeds 10 times. You're sure on that? I recall something differently back from when I was in school.

Yes, quite sure. I think I'm probably not being clear enough. Allow me to clarify:

Say you are flipping a coin and are trying to get heads. If you flip it once, there are two possibilities with equal likelihood: heads, or tails. This means that the probability of getting heads is 50%. However, if you flip it twice, there are four possibilities with equal likelihood: heads-heads, heads-tails, tails-heads, and tails-tails. This gives an overall probability of 75% for getting heads when combining both tosses.

The same principle applies for things without 50-50 chances (such as breeding dragons in Dragon Story or getting a Black Lens to drop in Terraria >_<), although I am sorry to say I do not know the exact math.