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RE: Rainbow whiskers
Okay, I'll take a very quick pass at this and others can elaborate.
First off, there is absolutely no difference - in terms of breeding new traits - between a starter from the store or a collectible (which also comes from the store, but then often gets resold through the markets). A collectible is just a starter with a fancy costume. That being the case, people would rather often have the pretty costume: that is the basic mechanism for how new starters are constantly fed onto the grid. *
There is another thread on the board (which I'll try to link back to, or somebody else can) in which Fabio Mr. Cat, asserts that with his data, approximately 81% of cats released at a given time carry no new traits. I am fuzzy on the specifics, so a good look at that thread would give you the best answer on that.
The reason the experienced breeders are the ones who can pull recessive traits the most quickly is because they already HAVE recessive cats. So they can breed a starter with a cat that Already has Dreamy whiskers, and if the kitten comes back with Dreamy whiskers, they know immediately that the kitten holds Dreamy or better. And so they know to concentrate on breeding for whiskers on that particular kitten. For other people, breeding with Mysterious whiskers against a starter, they will keep getting Mysterious whiskers back on the kitten and may not realize that that particular kitten is worth paying attention to and back breeding and sibling breeding, etc. They may give up on that cat, the recessive whisker may stay buried and so forth.
The hardest question to answer is how long does it take, and I'm sure many people can weigh in on that.
*Quick edit to add: It matters which collectible you buy. If a collectible is in a box it will carry the traits that were available at the time of its release date. So a very old collectible, while very valuable for its costume, will only contain very old traits. In terms of new traits, you would want a very recent collectible, which at this time is the Easter 2014 collection.
The Pawsable Traits Reference manager and a Chart keeper.
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