Talk:Great Gnarled Tree

Splintered Wood

Treants may drop Splintered Wood in this location too. I haven't seen it myself, but apparently some people think they got a piece [1]. -- Camomiletea 22:10, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Fairy Mouse

How is it determined which mice are rarely encountered? Should the fairly mouse be considered rarely encountered since it appears only 0.8% of the time? -- Ralphminer 04:05, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Rare mice are those which are encountered less than 1 of 100 times. If Fairy is encountered 0.8%, it would qualify. What is the source of your statistic? It seemed like I encountered it more often, although I could hardly catch it. -- Camomiletea 04:50, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

I was using the catch rate estimate tool - taking the estimated number of catches divided by the estimated catch rate. Doing this the Black Widow gets a score of 0.32, the Bat gets a score of 0.66, and the Fairy mouse gets a score of 0.89. For the Fairy mouse I did this with a setup of the ambush trap / explosive base / SuperBrie cheese which has an estimate of 0.44 catches per 100 hunts with a catch rate of 49.5% so 0.44 / 0.495 is 0.88888 which if you divide by the attraction rate (rank Lord with shield on) of 0.9925 gives an overall percentage of Fairy mice around 0.90%. Using this method in other locations the Abomimable Snow mouse in the Mountains comes in at 0.66%, the mole mouse in the meadow at 0.38%, the Pirate mouse in the Meadow at 0.59%. If there are no objections I would like to leave the Fairy mouse as is since 0.90 is close to 1% but I would like to update the Bat mouse as rarely encountered in GGT. I would like to suggest a threshold of 0.67% for updating the existing pages. -- Ralphminer 11:57, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Wow, that's a lot of hard work to get back to the original numbers in the code. I'm going to be doing an update at some point, when I do, would it be a lot easier for me just to pull out any populations under 1% and put up a list somewhere? If so, how would we like to deal with changing cheeses in a location, for example, if using RB in the cats it's very rare to encounter a vampire, but if you use ancient, you get a lot more of them. -- Twentypence 03:51, 29 May 2009 (UTC)