(12-19-2012 06:58 AM)KittyCats Resident Wrote: Tad's assumption is mostly correct.
The genetics are generated when the box is rezzed the first time, and do never change anymore afterwards.
When it is rezzed the box will load the latest genetics it can "understand" (the communication for that changed a few times with certain updates).
Special collection traits are always loaded, regardless of the version, and their chances are independent of other traits.
To make it more clear towards the future, some adjustments were made and boxes released after the cattery update will for sure load the most recent traits, and no longer get stuck at a version they "understand".
Regards
KittyCatS
Thanks KittyCatS, it explains the boxes I have in inventory that have never been rezzed. From what I understand is when I do rez them at that point they will 'communicate' which traits they will hide and if I say have a Lazy Dazy it will also get a hidden Gerbera eye and porcelain shade for sure even though they are retired. Now if I had a RFL 2011 kitty box that hasn't been rezzed, since these where special and 'could' carry one of 4 new eyes colors and furs that where not released until later. When it 'communicates' for the traits, if it understands it "COULD" carry one of those furs even though they maybe retired now. Where as if I had a regular starter kitty from the same period it would probably have more of a chance not to get it.
I guess I'm trying to understand some of the scripting for the boxes. It helps to understand the process and more like dissecting the kitty too. So my guess would be that a section of the script for the genetics would be (for collections) something like 'hard-coded-traits (array of traits)', 'chance-at-these-traits (array of traits)', and 'get-from-server(connecting)' and regular starter boxes would just have the get from server. If the script language hasn't chanced to much and the script errors on the 'chance-at' portion then the fall back would be to get from the server. But hard-coded is already there and won't even be asked.
