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Yasu coded for me a 60-day regen, so I'm using it for the purpose of making Lesser Breeding Pendants 60 day regen. I know people will be rather upset by this, but with several hundreds in circulation and the price of pendant slots still horribly devalued, this needs to be done to cut back. I mean, look at the queue...
Lesser Breeding Coin (x311) | Lesser Breeding Pendant (x383)
This should not be as imbalanced. Pendants are supposed to be rare, so we're hoping this combats it. Think of it logically:
RBPS and MBPs are cheapest and pendants regen at 30 days.
LBPs are mid-grade in price and regen at 60 days.
BPs, EBPS, PBPs, and HBPs are the rarest, and are at a 90 day regen for this reason.
Please understand we do this to keep the balance in the system, and we really want to be fair on all accounts. This effectively means for the amount of LBCs people submit, a little over that amount comes around for free in the system. I hope this pans out eventually despite the obvious frustrations it will cause.
Now aside from this, spend those Candy Canes and Snowflakes and carry on merrily!
Posted by Ash
(#90) on Wed Jan 4, 2012 6:27pm
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Posted on: Thu Jan 5, 2012 11:10am
I have to agree with the mods on this. Breedings shouldn't be something that is free in the first place. Staff have to pay someone to create your offspring for every breeding and, if there are too many free breedings, it's simply not going to be practical. I think people with coins, who are actually paying for breedings, should have first priority. I know a lot of you payed an investment for those coins but, hey, eventually it will pay off and you will be getting your 'free breedings'. 12 offspring a year, though, still isn't that bad so why all the complaining?
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Posted on: Thu Jan 5, 2012 11:14am
Woops I meant a lot of you paid an investment for those pendants. Sorry about that.
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Posted on: Thu Jan 5, 2012 11:25am
Still, I have to add that I don't really agree with such a sudden change. While I agree with the change itself, I still think there should have been a forewarning of some sort.
- ★ DS ★
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Posted on: Thu Jan 5, 2012 11:33am
Nova, what about people who use predicts? And if you bought GP to get a pendant, why is that investment less meaningful? It's not free, you already paid.
- Ash
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Posted on: Thu Jan 5, 2012 11:40am
Staff discussed the issue thoroughly and this was a fair course of action. I could have dealt with a 90 day regenerate only so this is compromise. And as several have said free means not being purchased. LBP breedings aren't donated for. And how is over 200 pendants not an issue? So much for a rare item no? These aren't weak statements. They're truths.
- jojo
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Posted on: Thu Jan 5, 2012 11:40am
Well this f*ckin' sucks lol.
- Unknown
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Posted on: Thu Jan 5, 2012 11:56am
Not everyone uses predicts. If everyone did, that would be a different story, but staff are still hiring artists for a lot of these breedings I imagine. Not that i'm saying it isn't a bummer I imagine it would be. I just don't see how it is practical with so many pendents in circulation, to continue having a 30 day regeneration rate. Besides, I could be wrong for breeding pendants, but don't people who use predicts still get gp back which, in a way, is still the same as paying someone to do the art?
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Posted on: Thu Jan 5, 2012 12:06pm
As for the investment, 300 gp is still payed off in about 12 breedings so, yes it is an investment but the pendent lasts forever so you still eventually will be getting free breedings.
- wolfcat
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Posted on: Thu Jan 5, 2012 12:13pm
Calling people childish is an attack. People are commenting on how this makes them feel. Everyone has a right to do that (hopefully in a nice manner). You attacking them is not okay. They are saying it's not fair and they are absolutely right. Many people on this site are adults and as adults, they can't really act like anything other than an adult. lol. LOTS of people donated to get LBP's. I spent real money to get 2 of mine so I'm sure other people with more than one did too. They aren't free breedings for the people paying real money for them. The only way I talked my husband into letting me buy them was because of the overall picture with them. Until I got my 3rd one, I was still buying coins periodically for extra breedings. I didn't really breed at all before I bought my first LBP with real money. Nova, the pendant may last forever, but the site not necessarily. It would be nice to know it would but.... I still believe getting LBP's out of the system is a much better plan that making a 60 day regen. I don't understand why that wasn't that first plan with this as the back up plan?
Posted on: Thu Jan 5, 2012 10:03am
Astra, understand that for some people, breeding IS their income. For many, especially the younger ones whose parents don't let them buy GP, saving up for an LBP allowed them to submit a breeding a month after saving anywhere from 300-500 GP or kicking butt on the games. Taking half of those breedings from them so suddenly without any consideration as to how it will affect those of use who got them was rude of the staff itself. Many users are not taking it well and just as many are not affected because they do not have the pendants. And purchasing LBCs from the GP store doesn't do anything to help balance the site income unless you bought that GP with real life money. Likewise, it doesn't help the economy because you arn't buying it from another user so you arn't giving them the GP. No matter what way you play it, the argument that buying LBCs from the GP shop helps the site is null. The reason there are probably so many LBP breedings is because of the backlog, not that there are 300 and something LBPs. I myself have submitted 2 LBP breedings with the same pendant without getting the previous breeding back. This is an issue of a backlogged system and predicts don't even help anymore as predicts can sit there for months on end and then if one is wrong they will sit there for even longer while the breeder tries to have them fixed and re-checked. The other argument people are making is that removing the LBPs will lower the breeding queue. No it won't. An increase in staff to manage it will. Those using an LBP use it because it is there and convenient. An LBC is still useable at any time. Not to mention there are tons of users who submit predicts, myself being one, I have yet to submit a breeding where an artist has to do my breeding and I know many users do the same due to either impatience or wanting a certain thing out of the breeding. Arg, sorry about the rant, all I know is that all the reasons we are being given for the sudden removal and devaluation of the pendants seem weak and do not justify what was done. I'm sure if the staff had had a poll or discussion with the site over what could have been done things wouldn't be so negative about the issue. Also, calling people's reactions childish is pathetic and rude of all of you who do so. Take a moment to think of others because although aywas is a cut above other sites, it is still a pet site and that leaves them to hear what their community base has to say whether is be complaining about something that was done or praise for something that was done such as the seasonal shop. Aywas is a grand site but there are times when sudden changes upset users.