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Posted by JAK
(#15) on Tue Jul 8, 2014 1:37pm
- Myria (Treats!)
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Posted on: Wed Jul 9, 2014 4:34am
Not that I've ever bred, but I'd think breeding a bunch of different hybrids (or pets of a different genus than the original) would cause a pet to fall into the "over-bred" category slower than if it was part of a bunch of LBC or MBC breedings, because it would mean more variation in the offspring. But perhaps it would be the same or faster, since that would mean the edits are spread around to more genuses. So I don't really know.
- OKami_hu
(#23130)
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Posted on: Wed Jul 9, 2014 8:54am
Isn't breeding the whole point to this site...?
- Tali
(#138)
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Posted on: Wed Jul 9, 2014 12:53pm
I view 10+ times as potentially overbreeding, but then i base overbreeding on number of offspring rather than number of requests. For example 10+ offspring in my mind is more than plenty for any single pet over a short period of time especially. Over longer periods of time its not such an issue for me, but seeing for example, 5 requests for lbc's, that means 2 offspring per request on average, so might only be breeding twice, but guaranteed around 10 offspring etc.
Honestly i think it differs from person to person. This is my opinion, but then i don't breed often. For others overbreeding simply implies they don't want to same partnering multiple times, to prevent lots of similar looking babies perhaps.
It's something i feel pet owners need to define in their rules, if they have a rule for 'no overbreeding' ask that they specify a limit?
- Sweetevee
(#529)
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Posted on: Wed Jul 9, 2014 9:30pm
My opinion was not represented in the poll.I agree with those saying it should be up to the owner of the pet,not the site restricting the breeding.Breeding restricting is why I left another site for this one.If we have to purchase the coin to breed,then we should be able to breed the pet we want to.For instance,I have a favorite pet that I want to breed (when I can afford it) to make different awesome hybrids,even RBC breeding to make funny awesome mutants.I don't breed to sell though. I don't breed often because I can't afford to buy breeding coins,I think I've bred less than 10 times the whole time the site has been around.Also what about the special pets that you have to breed to get?
- MishaBaby
(#48211)
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Posted on: Fri Jul 11, 2014 3:05am
I have seen this posted here previously, and I agree: overbreeding is really not a question of how many total breedings, but rather of how many in a time period. Of course, to me, overbreeding would have to be excessive. Once a week would be a good example. Once every month or two is reasonable (not overbreeding) to me, but probably isn't to most others.
Posted on: Wed Jul 9, 2014 1:11am
Not represented -
I think overbreeding should be defined by whomever is involved directly in the breeding, but should be judged by number of babies, not number of breedings.
Also, out of curiosity, how can you tell how many times a pet has been bred per time period? None of the pets have birthdays or anything that I've noticed? I put in a breeding in February, and only just within the last week has it been assigned to a helper. Oh yeah, that's because I can't afford the add-ons that give breedings a relatively reasonable time expectancy. *sigh*