Birth Probability

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TRAITS_______________________________________

Esseria staff does not decide who gets a mythical foal and who doesn't. I've designed a concept to allow a fair and thorough explanation on how mythicals come about. To begin, one must know that every character carries one trait - and only one. These traits are available only to the staff members, as members will not know their character's trait. When a foal is born, the foal always takes the trait of the father - no exceptions. There are two traits: one unicorn trait, and one pegasi trait. Remember, no character has more than one trait.

Of course, things obviously have to get more complex than this. These traits play a major role in producing mythicals. In order to have any chance at birthing a mythical, the two parents must have the same trait. If a stallion and mare possessing the same trait breed, the foal will have a 50/50 percent of being born a mythical. If the parents have different traits, there is no chance. Of course, if both parents have a unicorn trait, there is no chance of birthing a pegasus - and vice versa. Two unicorn traits produce a unicorn, and two pegasi traits produce a pegasus.

There is, however, a way to display both traits - resulting in a winged unicorn. But, like before, this horse only has one trait. This can be done when a unicorn and a pegasus breed. There will be a 50/50 chance that the offspring will be a winged unicorn. The offspring still takes the father's trait, resulting in the winged unicorn still having one trait - just like any other horse.

Now, what happens when two horses of the same species breed? For example: two unicorns, two pegasi, or two winged unicorns? They will have a 75% chance of birthing an offspring of their own species. But they can never birth an offspring of another species. For instance, two unicorns cannot give birth to a pegasus. It is their own species, or simply a normal, non mythical horse.

PROBABILITY_____________________________________________

Now, to keep things fair, staff will use a number generator to determine the odds. The generator we use can be found here. The results will be as follows:

50/50 Odds:
Staff will enter '2' as the integer. If the result is one, they defeat the odds and the offspring will be a mythical. If the result is two, the offspring will be a normal horse.

75/25 Odds:
Staff will enter '4' as the integer. If the result is one, two, or three, they defeat the odds and the offspring will be a mythical. If the result is four, the offspring will be a normal horse.