Board Thread:Questions/@comment-33872713-20180330005405/@comment-35203997-20180409213720

Sakurra wrote: problem with changing them all to den betas is that they can't be converted back into spikes because it'll be either worth more or less, not exactly the same. an analogy: it's like google translate. you put something in and translate it to, say, french. then you reverse the french back to english and it's not the same english you put in the first place. same goes for spikes. a red long is two decent longs (let's say pink and yellow) but is worth 25 den betas, but the pink and yellow longs added together is worth around 30 den betas. another example; 6 bad longs is worth a black long (black long is 75 den betas at most) yet the worst bad long (orange) is worth around 12 at the least. 6 x 12 = 74, but you'll find nobody who will take 6 orange longs for their black long. last example: 3 decent/good shorts is worth a pink long. pink long is 16 den betas, but 3 decent/good shorts is 18-24 den betas. so that should be worth a good long, right? nope. back to good longs, pink is only 4 den betas worth away from a blue long. but a pink long set isn't worth a blue long. hope this makes sense, i'm quite certain it's worth 5 black longs at most. and this is why the den betas are the cheat in this rarity system