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Staff is trying to set some baseline definitions for vague breeding rules. Please help us by answering this question:
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Posted by JAK
(#15) on Tue Jul 8, 2014 1:37pm
- Altaica
(#4924)
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 6:57pm
I agree that it should remain up to to players to define. If you want to make official rules perhaps bold a part stating something like: it is up to users to thoroughly define their ideas of vague terms like "overbreeding" with approximate numbers. Failure to do so will prevent mods from being able to help enforce your rules.
I very much believe it is NOT up to the people purchasing breeding slots to have to ask you fifty times what you mean by "overbreeding". Be specific from the get-go. But I also think one site-wide rule will cause more frustration than anything. A large percentage will find the site's number too strict and the others will find it not strict enough. Users have been making their own rules for too long to be ok with this I think!
(I have no breeding rules so I probably won't care 8DD woohoo simplicity!)
- Nrogara
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 7:20pm
I'm not sure there IS such a thing as over breeding... but maybe I just haven't been on the site long enough or am not rich enough to breed enough that I've haven't ever seen any problem. I mean I guess like Sunny said, if it's a really rare breed and you're breeding 100+... but still, I'd be fan just because that means a higher chance of my getting one. So idk.
- 🌸 SG 🌺
(#36207)
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 7:26pm
I agree with ariaalina (and anyone else who may have expressed the opinion, of course; hers was just the first I saw). "Over" breeding is less about how many times total and more about how often.
I don't like rules like "only three breedings ever forever" because what if years down the line you find just the perfect breeding partner who didn't exist until a week before you saw it, and you already used your breedings years ago.
So I'd say something like, say, 3-5 times a year. Maybe slightly more in the first year.
- 🌸 SG 🌺
(#36207)
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 7:28pm
Ooh, SelenaWolf makes a decent point too. I'd up the maximum number of times a pet could be bred if it's a strictly in-lair for-personal-use-only breeding as opposed to things that are sold or gifted.
- Kalid [hiatus]
(#49104)
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 7:31pm
I dont think overbreeding has to do with how many breedings, as much as how often. Really, one breeding a year is whats reasonable. No more than two.
- Azremodehar
(#58221)
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 7:31pm
I'm pretty much with Tyger (54028) here.
- Aria
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 7:46pm
I'm against the idea that there IS such thing as overbreeding. I can understand making a 'No Incest' rule, and have it extend out X generations, like in real life really. Because honestly? I didn't pay IRL for my customs etc with a breeding limit in place, and I liked that. I feel that adding one now detracts from what I paid for... even if I don't breed that often.
- Licia
(#22410)
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 7:55pm
My opinion is not represented in the poll.
I don't get why people seem to get so upset about over breeding. If there was an inbreeding feature like in felisfire, where if you inbreed them the babies get some disease, then I don't see why it's important at all. If I want to breed one pet a hundred times then I should be able to do just that.
Secondly, every breeding costs money, so why limit something that brings in funds? What if someone only liked a couple pets enough to breed them,
I totally am on board with spaying and neutering your real, live pets. But playing a game..that's a lot different. If I spend a bunch of real money on a pet then find out I can't do anything with it because it has a bunch of breeding rules it kinda stinks because it's like the pet isn't even mine.
But what do I know, I think if a custom is sold, and it's not an SCC then the new owner should be able to do what they want with it since the old owner obviously doesn't want it anymore.
- Ginny
(#3661)
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 8:02pm
I said more than five is overbreeding, but now I read the comments, I do agree that it's more a matter of how many babies than how many breedings- I personally was thinking five lesser breedings of two babies each when I voted. But really, even the kind of breeding makes a difference, like I don't count hybrid breedings as much since the resulting babies aren't on the same lines anymore so the edits have to be redrawn. Most of the edits out there have already been "redrawn" many times in different designs, so that's less an issue for me than when the specific edit starts getting spread around too much. Still, though, it does majorly suck when you see a pet that's so flipping beautiful but they've already been bred as much as the owner is willing to breed them, so I'd err on the higher end to allow more people access to edits they love. Just with a bit more discretion/ restraint than some lines and sets have shown in the past. xD
Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 6:52pm
I actually don't know. I don't really breed my pets out much, and don't consider it overbreeding if the babies stay in my own lair.