Calamity Finch on Jan 30, 2018 wrote:

I've been wondering, is there any? Does Decius just throw random pets together or can we deduce (without hints) which pets MIGHT be able (likely) to create a hybrid. I notice there are a few pets that have a color in their names showing up in the hybrid parents names, and also pets with a fire or ice look. Other than that, a lot of parents of hybrids seem to be of very different types of animal (different egg types) from each other. I'd like it to have a logic to it, because that would be a puzzle to work on, as more new pets are created.

Well, RRRRZZZZ419 has the notion that for there to be a hybrid, we pirates in game must be able to say the hybrid's name without the name turning yellow for the hybrid to be an actual pet.

In a way, I feel that what he said is true.

In another way, I feel that this idea could hurt those wanting to morph to crate a hybrid, because then whoever abides by the above logic might not try one of several dozens of combinations that could result in a undiscovered hybrid. I'm saying a hybrid doesn't have to be able to be communicable to be exist in game. I may seem irrational, but hey, I'm irrational. lol

Names of pets may also play into the creation of hybrids, to some degree. But some hybrids do not inherit a name from one of their parents. So hard to rely solely on names of pets to create a hybrid.

Maybe if we use the two methods in conjunction(and listen to each other), we hybrid hunters may have a better chance of discovering more hidden hybrids in the game.

See ya in the Spiral, maties.

Well the new search for the loadingdango is a little hard. The "dango" part seems simple enough maybe a fandango but the "loading" part may just imply it is the one we see in the loading screen. Also this name appears in yellow not white.

The "loading" part of the name is part of the joke, as people had talked about blue fandango on the loading screen as a possible hybrid. Poor thing doesn't even have a proper name.

As for what RRRRZZZZ419 said, we can't always rely on names, as some names are in yellow until after the pet has been released for a while. The "fennec" in fennec fox being a recent example, and even that wasn't a hybrid. There were more examples, but I can't think of any on top of my head right now. I remember there was another pet people struggled to say, but I can't remember which one specifically.

While names can help, some words can just be part of a two-word name, like Bubblegumbo. Bubblegumbo what? Crab? Crawlie? Chameleon? There could be simple names like fire and ice *insert pet here*, which could fit any pet. Combined names like Darkdillo and Loadingdango work because at least it's a definite name, but that leaves out a lot of potential combos and hybrids that don't have such name scheme.

I have been working on a hybrid flow chart to try to see a pattern with hybrids. Trust me, it's a mess. However, I noticed that some areas are more concentrated than others. For example, in my chart Bunny pets and Fish/Shark pets are close together. Same with fire and ice pets. Of course, this is probably just the way the chart is set up.

It's hard to decipher a possible hybrid without at least a hint from Decius. There's so many combinations and so many pets it's not even funny. Even if you get a random combo by chance, it often takes multiple tries because the chances are so low. People have given up on hybrid hunting because of this.

Unfortunately, there's no good way to tell a possible hybrid without messing around or digging deep into the madness.

I believe it is a fixed chance, Calamity. That arrangement is more consistent with what I have seen morphing hybrids than the "resets every session" idea. Of course, when randomness is involved you can really only be semi-confident about identifying patterns after lots and lots and lots of tries and very careful record keeping. Which, since the great Quakosaurus experiment, I for one have been too lazy to do.

-Indigo