Talk:Dino Den/@comment-5116140-20120816173741

Are There Patterns in The Crystal Prices for Rare Dinos?

Patterns: <<  25*N - 1,    25*N + 4,    25*N +9  >>

Here is a great question for inquiring minds. Tables like this are great because they collect together many pieces of data. Curious minds can then look for patterns. If we look at the crystal prices for rare dinos we can detect some patterns.

A. First we see a group of prcies havivng the Pattern 25*N-1

such as 49 for Proto, 74 for Dime and 99 for Ptero.

Increments of 25.

The (-1) is the usual marketing ploy so consumers don't notice that 99 is really 100.

Can't have sticker shock! There are the even multiples of 25 and so need the -1 to make the last digit 9.

B. Next we can see a group of crystal prices in the Pattern 25*N + 4

such as 129 for Kentro, 179 for Bronto, and more recently 279, 379, 329

There are the odd multiples of 25 and so need the 4 to make the last digit 9.

C. Next we can see a group of crystal prices in the Pattern 25*N + 9

such as 109. These are also all even multiples of 25 again, but they have added 9 instead of subtracted 1 to make the last digit 9.

All the prices end in 9 except 74 for the dime. I wonder what these these patterns mean. Any ideas out there?? Is it just to keep the last digit equal to 9 (except for the dime).

We can also see that often new dino prices flesh out complete patterns of low, medium and high offers. Interesting. There also seems to be a pattern of "Least Effort" that some might notice. Have fun and see if you too can see it.