The Scientist
Heheh, not a Silph worker...
I'm sorry, Space Dandy, I'm not familiar with the concept of formals. Can you elaborate on what you had in mind?
Jikuumoogle, I obtained my all my friends in a short period of time before conducting the trials in order to have all friend safari Pokemon available. However, these tests were conducted over a period of 6 months, and if your theory were correct, we should see a steady increase in the shiny rate. Because I did not notice such a phenomenon (you can look at the data yourself in the Google spreadsheet in my signature), I don't think length of time as friends has an affect on the friend safari shiny rate.
I've done a little bit of testing on ORAS. Some people here and there have been suggesting that the Mirage islands and caves have an increased shiny rate like in the friend safari. So far I've found 10 shinies, which is only a few, WITH the shiny charm on a few islands. I'll hopefully search more soon. Right now it's looking like the rate isn't as high as 1/512 like in the friend safari, and I'm skeptical it's at all higher than normal (1/1365- again, I have the shiny charm). The average so far is 1124 encounters per shiny with a standard deviation of 731.
Raw data (number of encounters before a shiny was found):
2191
2138
1108
860
237
954
304
1462
1679
304
Jikuumoogle, I obtained my all my friends in a short period of time before conducting the trials in order to have all friend safari Pokemon available. However, these tests were conducted over a period of 6 months, and if your theory were correct, we should see a steady increase in the shiny rate. Because I did not notice such a phenomenon (you can look at the data yourself in the Google spreadsheet in my signature), I don't think length of time as friends has an affect on the friend safari shiny rate.
I've done a little bit of testing on ORAS. Some people here and there have been suggesting that the Mirage islands and caves have an increased shiny rate like in the friend safari. So far I've found 10 shinies, which is only a few, WITH the shiny charm on a few islands. I'll hopefully search more soon. Right now it's looking like the rate isn't as high as 1/512 like in the friend safari, and I'm skeptical it's at all higher than normal (1/1365- again, I have the shiny charm). The average so far is 1124 encounters per shiny with a standard deviation of 731.
Raw data (number of encounters before a shiny was found):
2191
2138
1108
860
237
954
304
1462
1679
304
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