Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25345226-20140825000544/@comment-1466854-20140828161230

The beauty of things like this is they all rely on the RNG. Probably was just a matter of luck, though it could have been a number of other things. For instance, it's possible the torches are a flat increase, rather than a multiplier on the odds. Thus ten torches on a 1% breed chance would be 11% (~10x odds), while ten torches on a 50% breed chance becomes 60% (1.2x odds). Until someone goes through and just hammers out the numbers the hard way (or pulls the game's code apart, but I'm not volunteering), that sort of guessing is the best we can do.