How many Special offer cards are available at any one time and how are they chosen?

sadoldman....click on "home" to find the Special Offer cards daily.
(as well as the new releases & classic cards too)
There are 8 at a time & they are picked randomly by the system each & every day!
They tend to come more from the older full collection cards & less from the new releases.

Are they truly random or is their some sort of system? one of the cards in particular seems to get chosen quite often.

@sadoldman a computer system is never truly random as it has to follow rules. I think some one has stated before how the special offer cards are generated but I can't remember what that was. But it is as random as it can be made I believe.

If by random you mean does each card have the same chance of appearing as one of the eight specials on any given day, then the evidence suggests not. There appears to be quite a strong bias, similar to what happens with the daily demo and, as noted by a poster above, the specials concentrate more on older cards.

I've been gathering the data on the specials for the last 9 months as I suspected something like that was happening. In 279 days 2,232 cards have come up as special offers. If the choice were random you might reasonably expect that nearly every card would appear at least once and the most frequent might appear 7 or 8 times in that period. I say 'nearly' all the cards as the newest cards have only been issued recently and so have had less chances to be picked.

In fact 645 (or 80%) of the cards have appeared at least once: leaving 20% that have not been offered on special. Of the 645 that have been offered, 192 have only been offered once, leaving the remaining 453 cards to fill the other 2,040 special offer slots. 68 cards have appeared 10 times or more, including 16 that have appeared over 15 times each. In other words, less than 10% of the cards make up over a third of the special offers.

I've only collected card numbers, but in this thread:

http://www.virtuagirl.com/forumPost.php?foId=3&ftId=17190&forum_search=random

Tout sur iStripper / Every day, 8 cards are picked at random....?

I have noted the card ratings of 272 cards, offered consecutively by Totem over the last month or so. Each card already belongs on one page of the entire vghd collection, listed as thirty-two small ca...

MoodyCat correlated the card number with the card rating showing a strong apparent bias toward lower ranked cards.

If you're patient then the special offer is still a great way to pick up the cards you really want at a great price, but it's a long way from being anything like random.

Y'know it really shouldn't come as much of a surprise that older, less popular cards are more abundant in the "random" rotation(some of my most FaveBabes are rated in the 7's & 8's).VG is, after all, a business & like any business the "sale" bin is made up of lots of stuff, mostly older,& serves as collector enabler, profit generator, member friendly budget buy zone, and inducement into the site so we can choose to buy the newer cards for full price.
If you want the latest hot babe of your choice you can take a chance at waitin' for her to come around on the special offer but it might take forever...or not happen at all,so "lay out that extra credit & get her now", appears to be the business plan!
I say only half in jest that the way to get the most out of the selection here is to develop a wide range of female beauty appreciation,("Everybody's Beautiful in Their Own Way") then it's mostly all " good stuff" & the 6 month subscription is the way to go! The "random" selection favors the ones with the widest range of beauty appreciation.
If you don't have that kind of beauty appreciation level than you must pay more & the 50 credits for $50.00
package is the best way to go.
Developing a Hunter's mind-set with this level of membership helps, checking the specials EVERY DAY, keepin' yer credits loaded, & goin' for the "Whoopie" experience when you see the newest Mandy Dee (or whoever) card FINALLY in your rotation will help yer joyful experience of the babes of VG.
A moderately obsessive nature helps too.
My advice: Develop yer ability to FantaSex widely!
It's your mind....
You decide!
It's all OK!
En-joy ("put joy into") VG!

This has been another in the series of RANDOMLY spouting off Plasonic, hopefully helpful, ramblings.
:)

although there a some cards that will not be placed into the shuffle, like the Classics or the VIP's

Albionhunter confirms my suspicion regarding Special Offers. But it's all good.

I am actually quite glad that the older cards are favoured. I have picked up a lot of decent cards for 1 ticket which have relatively low ratings and thus can be overlooked.

In recent days, there are fewer and fewer ones which I don't have that I am interested in. But at least there are special offers at all. It has certainly been a good marketing tactic as I doubt i would have bought as many tickers without the special offers.

My opinion is this "random" system of choosing the cards at special offer works in favour of me.
Before I start to give some details about what happen with special offers in case of me,I will say what I have.
I have a 3 month subscription and I bought 50 credits some time ago.
In the present time I have 426 cards from 806 cards(it means half cards about)
What I noticed in case of me with special offer is that almost every day from 8 cards, 5 or 6 cards are old and 3 or 2 cards are new.
By "old card" I understand a card with low resolution.
By "new card" I understand a card filmed with the new equipment(I`m not thinking at the time when they were released like most of you are thinking maybe)
In the last 2 weeks I received almost every day 1 or 2 girls on my taste(Kami-706,Playful *****-760,Ashley Bulgari-733,Silvie Deluxe & Monika-VIP card,Abigale Johnson-722,Natalia-742,Sarah-688,Mirka-702 -- I putted them in category "new cards")
What I noticed also is that the cards through subscription alternate in case of me(one "old card" with one "new card"-Angelica Kitten-813,Candy Blond-771,Mai-413,Ellen-450,Monika-757,Kristine Cristalis-808 are the latest "new cards")

Melissa Ria(one card is enough with her),Baby Nicole(one card is enough with her),Zanet(no thanks)(780,798 and 791) also came at special offer.

It looks like "someone" stays there and say to me:"Oh in the last 2 days you bought 4 cards and for this reason we send you through subscription great girls and newest cards":)))))

I remember it was a time when I didn`t buy the cards and I received through subscription ONLY old cards(2,14,22,33 etc-an example)

I was thinking why this happen in case of me and I found one logical explanation.
I have 426 cards(most of them are old cards-not so big numbers)and now is normal to come more often the new cards.
To be continued.....

"In recent days, there are fewer and fewer ones which I don't have that I am interested in."
I`m agree with you @Apasas.I could say in the last months not days.
Anyway this "random" system applies very well in case of me.It is perfect for me,because since Totem started "to cut" the shows and I don`t like most of the girls from the selection in the last months(the newest cards),I preffer the generation of Satin Bloom,Chelsea French,Sarah,Kami,Ashley Bulgari(longer shows and a better selection of the girls).

SO,in conclusion I`m pleased with the cards who come at special offer(NOT TOO OLD CARDS BUT NOT NEWEST CARDS ALSO):P and also I`m pleased with the cards who come through subscription.

Since Totem started "to cut" the shows I gave up the idea to buy the cards with 2 credits.I wait them at special offer IF they will come and IF the girls are on my taste(but as I can see only few girls are hot to me from the new generation of the girls).

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