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Posted by JAK
(#15) on Tue Jul 8, 2014 1:37pm
- Saartje <3
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 2:52pm
IMO there is no such thing as overbreeding. It's an online pet game.
- Busy Belle (Pro)
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 3:01pm
I would think it's up to the owners. To me, breeding is neat to see what the artist come up with. ^^ Sure you can have a custom made, but seeing what the mind set the artist has and what they do. I enjoy that~ ^^
I did see a few comments on inbreeding, but I'm not sure on this at all. I've been trying to understand if there is a side effects from this, but I haven't found any yet. Unless someone can point it out for me. ^-^
- Kitsune
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 3:04pm
Not Represented~
In my opinion it is the frequency, what you use, if you are breeding for profit, and if you are switching up the things they are breeding with.
I don't really count Derps or RBC babies because well you can do much with them unless you make them breedable. Plus they are fun and wacky.
However if you are constantly MBC breeding a set of pets and then selling them that could be overbreeding. Whereas if you do a PLBC and a PMBC and a breeding coin, and just switch the coins up and the partners It doesn't seem like overbreeding, because the babies are going to be so different.
Plus the animals don't die so it seems ridiculous that they can only have a few babies and then be done. Maybe overbreeding rule could be something like~
Can breed with these coins so many times and then have to wait a year until you can breed it more. Maybe more like a point system thing.
Pet A has 15 breeding points available per year. Using a Derp or RBC costs 1 point, while a PLBC cost 3 or 4 and a MBC cost 5. So an imaginary points system you could keep track of on the pet's profile with the sellers making a list of the values and stuff.
- Apolli
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 3:05pm
Idk I usually think of the number of babies produced from a custom instead of breedings submitted when overbreeding is discussed, because some coins submit less than 2 babies, while others/add ons can give 3 instead of 2.
- ErrantMisty
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 3:12pm
I honestly don't think the site should determine what this means because it means so many things to so many people. I do believe that if someone is going to have that rule THEY not the site should be required to put what their definition is.
- Alisha
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 3:14pm
I think overbreeding isn't so much how many times it is bred, but how often it is bred. For example, breeding something 10 times in under a year would seem like overbreeding, but breeding something 10 times in the course of 4 years might not be.
- Tis
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 3:14pm
I don't want to read every post but I want to throw my vote in. I do NOT think the site should determine rules on this. These aren't real animals; this isn't a puppy mill where real living creatures are affected. Breeding is the majority of the fun on this site for a lot of people. We paid for our customs and breeding items, we should be able to use them. And who cares if it's for profit, either? If someone likes the bred baby, they will buy it. If the market is saturated with similar of that baby, no one iwll buy it and the breeder will get the picture, maybe I will not breed that pairing anymore.
Besides that, how can ANYTHING be "overbred" when it takes MONTHS to get the breeding back?
If anything, make the price of breeding go up with consecutive breedings of the same pair or something. But don't limit us. :-/
- ErrantMisty
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 3:23pm
I also want to comment about the breeding for profit thing. I bred a scc couple that are special to me and all the babies so far have been less than stellar to me. So I sell them to try again for that one special baby. Sorry if you consider this breeding for profit but I need to afford a good breeding.
- JScofi
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 3:26pm
Looking over some of these comments, i've come to a big trend. People keep saying its not overbreeding or inbreeding, but breeding for profit.
I can understand this. If you put a lot of time into making a neat design, and then try to sell it for (game) money, you want some assurance that you're not putting yourself out of business with the first design sold.
But, with that logic, overbreeding is only an issue if the children still resemble the one you designed. So there would have to be some threshold of %change similar to the %edit system, where overbreeding no longer counted because the design is just so different.
I think that's why people keep bringing up if they're bred with different pets, or with an rbc. The issue is if the baby looks like the one you designed.
Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 2:49pm
I feel that overbreeding is an individual thing. There are only so many times Individual Pet A and Individual Pet B can breed before the offspring begin to look too similar to one another. But, if Individual Pet A bred with a hundred or so different pets, the offspring can differ widely and would very rarely look alike. So, in my opinion, there should not be a limit on how many times an individual pet breeds, but how many times an individual pet breeds with a species of pet. The limit should be around 3-5 times. For example, say I bred my Frost Fae Gael with a Ghost Bat Reve 4 times. I reach the limit for my Frost Fae Gael to breed with Ghost Bat Reves, and the Ghost Bat Reve reaches the limit to breed with Frost Fae Gaels, though both pets could breed with other pets of other species. If I'm really desperate for more offspring of that specific combination, I can obtain another couple of those particular species, and breed those to their limit. However, the two couples and their offspring would technically not be in the same family, which keeps the individual pets from having too many babies (generally overbreeding) and lowers the risk of the offspring inbreeding later on. This also allows a user to breed their individual pet as many times as they want, though not overbreed with a particular species. This would work with SCCs, as well. Married pets should be given a higher breeding limit (8-10) because they are unable to breed to other pets, but still should not overbreed.