Thread:Sylvandyr/@comment-5619126-20121014124324/@comment-4830404-20130102213852

Red, Blue, White, Pink has Red + Blue in it.

And no, that's not what I said for the weighted time thing at all.

This is what I am saying:

Average time should be calculated with rarity weights, because you cannot just add all the times together and divide by the number of dragons when different dragons have different rarities.

So pretend Common is 50%, Rare is 30%, and Super Rare is 20%.

Let's say we have a pool of Red, Green, Yellow. That's:


 * Life (3 hrs, Common)


 * Wild (6 hrs, Rare)


 * Landworm (6 hrs, Super Rare)


 * Forestfire (7 hrs, Super Rare)


 * Fruitful (10 hrs, Common)


 * Fairy (8 hrs, Rare)


 * Parakeet (5 hrs, Super Rare)


 * Firestorm (12 hrs, Common)


 * Eagle (14 hrs, Rare)


 * Honeybee (10 hrs, Super Rare)


 * Scorpion (13 hrs, Super Rare)

You have to average the dragons within the same rarity together, multiply by the rarity weight, and then add the results together.

So for Common dragons, you have .5 * ((3 + 10 + 12)/3) ~= 4.1667

Rare has .3 * ((6 + 8 + 14)/3) = 2.8

Super Rare has .2 * ((6 + 7 + 5 + 10 + 13)/5) = 1.64

Then you add them. 4.1667 + 2.8 + 1.64 = 8.60667 hrs.

This is the true average time. Of course the actual weights would affect the accuracy, but the more results you get, hopefully the better the weights will be.