Rarity changes for furs, restricted furs and new furs

[sullen gust]

A lot of furs ingame are either way too common or don’t feel like they should even be considered rares at all, some should be absolutely rare such as golden wildebeest yet are common, some such as dark grey wolves should be common but are rare

The list goes to what should be changed in terms of rarity and restrictions

Wildebeest : golden (rare), crowned (allow males to have it)

Springbok : black brown (rare and allow males to have it)

Mallard : piebald (rare), hybrid (new, rare)

Cinnamon teal : piebald (rare)

Goldeneye : Dark (common for females given the decoys have the orange bill spot on the dark females and both the normal common and dark plumage type are common amongst females irl)

Harlequin duck : piebald (rare and rework the piebald), dark (common for females)

Willow ptarmigan : White (common, this plumage type is their winter coloration and not a genetic mutation), Hybrid (new, rare, hybrid of black grouse x willow ptarmigan)

Rock ptarmigan : White (common, this plumage type is their winter coloration and not a genetic mutation), Hybrid (new, rare, hybrid of rock ptarmigan X black grouse)

Merriam turkey : light brown (rare, this coloration works identical to albino and leucism in that it makes the survival rate of those individuals significantly lower than their normal counterparts thus limiting their prevalence in a population)

Ring necked pheasant : (piebald, new)

Moose : Mocha (be made into a normal rare, other story maps have mission animals with rare furs so why restrict mocha to a single mission that could potentially glitch out?), Leucistic (New)

Raccoon : blonde (rare, maybe rename it to leucistic)

Scrub hare : light grey (common), albino (new, rare)

I will update this post as needed mainly because I can’t put everything in the first description

[mighty abyss]

It would be rare to find a white willow ptarmigan in early fall tho

[sullen gust]

I could see arguments for that

Or maybe make it uncommon

Also for the mocha moose, given its similarity to piebald I still think it should be also available as a non mission exclusive

Unlike the wolves on cuatro that look very different than their base rares and one of them is legit not a rare

[pearl folio]

IMO not everything needs to be rare, some things should stay rare. I agree with the wildebeest and springbok but some of the other ones you mentioned like the white willow, piebald teal and mallard should stay rare and uncommon or common

[timber trellis]

I agree about the wildebeest and springbok

[gaunt sundial]

The charcoal mela wolf should be bumped down to rare an the dark gray should be rare or uncommon, black wolves (especially the salt n pepper ones) are very common in some populations so they shouldn’t be very rare like they are now imo, additionally a new common coat would help diversify packs as well, light brown/tan or Cream/Light Gray like these photos could be good commons. (Only reason I don’t think charcoal should be uncommon is that they’re rare worldwide)

[sullen gust]

Black wolves are more common in North America than Europe

So it gets a little tricky with the rarity

[gaunt sundial]

Yeah I just think bumping the charcoal to a .07-.10% chance instead of a .03% chance wouldn’t be crazy. They shouldn’t be on par with an albino and acromelanistic imo

The proper mela is fine as is, as a pure black wolf is rarer than the charcoals irl

[gaunt sundial]

They could also split em with the only changes between them being the name and fur rarity spawn % (Eurasian Grey wolf, North American Gray wolf, kinda like the puma/mountain lion)

[tulip tapir]

I think it wouldn’t make sense to have white ptarmigan be common, it would be weird to see a bunch of winter plumage ptarmigan running around during the fall, but I definitely agree with everything else, they should totally get a hybrid

[barren atlas]

I'd lov to see smokey as an uncommkon for red fox and dark smokey as a rare. Smokey is a fairly common colour morph in Europe and Asia but the really dark ones with a black throat/belly are more rare

Regular smokey on the left, dark smokey on the right

[pliant swift]

Yeah the only map they could be common on would be Alberta 😭 Alaska and Russia have mostly untouched wolf populations

[pliant swift]

Yessss

[gaunt sundial]

For it to be a common coat color I’d rather them just introduce the northwestern wolf subspecies if they ever do a Wyoming or Montana map and change askiy and Yukon to them as well, also I was under the impression that around a third of the wolves in Alaska have some variation of the black coat?

[pliant swift]

That wouldn’t be bad, also maybe? I’d have to double check

[gaunt sundial]

I’d prefer it to be uncommon or rare though for North America at least, but I still think the charcoal should be a bit more common than the melanistic and albino for Eurasia.

Maybe the Eurasian Charcoal could be a .05% chance? That would put it in the middle off the lower end very rares (.07% Eggwhite/Red Brown Dark Grey) and upper end very rares(.03% Albino/Melanistic/Acromelanistic).

[grave nexus]

BLACK BELLIED FOXES MENTIONED

[floral torrent]

Gray Wolf furs need to be fixed really bad…
Grey and Brown are the only commons. Like be so fr… also, DARK GREY as a rare??? What were they thinking omg

Dark Grey, Red Brown, Egg White and Melanistic Charcoal are very similar to common wolf coats irl. I am so mad that they only added one new common fur with their remaster too. Albino and Melanistic are the only real rares.

They should just do similar commons to the other rares so they don’t have to bump the rarity and ruin tons of Super Rares.

Like this

Red Brown - Tawny
Egg White - Cream
Dark Grey (make it darker, like, MUCH DARKER) - Grey Variant 2
Melanistic Charcoal - Black

And add a Dark Brown that isn’t rare to balance the Acromelanistic. Idk. But as someone who really loves wolves it pmo how they did the rares.

[mighty abyss]

I think that's only an American thing because here virtually all wolves are grayish/tan

[floral torrent]

Gray wolf genetics are fun

The Kk and KK genes cause the wolfs coat to be black. But “black” is really just a variety of dark greys, browns, and blacks.

kk makes the coat grey but “grey” is an even wider variety. It can be white, cream, tawny, brown, red, grey, etc

Tawny and grey are definitely more common but it doesn’t make the other colours rare, they’re still pretty common among wolves

Also not to mention some wolves grey with age so much they can become nearly all white

[mighty abyss]

This is controlled by a single gen? 🤨

[floral torrent]

Yeah, I suggest looking into it — the wolves in Yellowstone are so diverse and really colourful so

[barren atlas]

They're my favourite wild fox colour morph. They have them in Classic so I'd love to see them added to COTW. Most of the foxes around me are the smokey type. Here's a few I've photographed in my garden