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Posted by JAK
(#15) on Tue Jul 8, 2014 1:37pm
- Syn
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 3:35pm
As far as overbreeding goes, I think if you are keeping each and every baby, then you can breed as many times as you want to. It's your lair, and if you aren't massively releasing them to the general aywas public, then you can do what you want.
For me, I think overbreeding is when you manage to generate about ten times the amount of profit from buying the pet.
Example. I buy two pets at ten gp each. I breed and only sell the offspring and make 200 gp. That I think is over breeding.
- JScofi
(#49041)
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 3:36pm
and that a metal pet has pretty much no claim to overbreeding, since its colorings would be one of the first things to go when its bred.
- Mischievous
(#35260)
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 3:46pm
I dont have any worries about over breeding. It's up to the creator of the pet to decide their own limits. Should be a "free market" for them to decide and specify their own rules.
- Fwipfwip
(#15798)
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 3:48pm
Like most everyone floating down here in the comments- it's dependent on the owner of that species/lines. The more a pet is bred, the better the chances for those markings to one day make it to your lair, should you want them. Capping a pet's children at anything less than 6 seems damned ridiculous. Now if they did all 5+ in a day and sold them off for more than the coins they came from, that's a bit of a cause for alarm.
Basically, keep rules in the hands of the owners, and instead look for some way to combat more of a "puppy mill" syndrome than whether or not a pet has 50+ children over the site's lifetime.
- Wolf D. Plasma
(#25989)
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 3:59pm
I don't know if this is just complete inexperience with this site, but....why are people so worried about what happens to the kids and grandkids of their pets that no longer belong to them? O_o If you didn't want your special edits leaking everywhere, then why did you agree to selling the offspring with those special edits instead of hoarding them all for yourself?
Plus....what's everyone's beef with breeding for profit? If I had the cash reserves and good breeding pairs that have babies sell well, I'd totally hop onto that. In a game where money making is incredibly hard if you don't know where your niche is, I'd say try out whatever you think is a good way to make money. So long as you aren't exploiting glitches, there should be no problems.
Putting breeding limits on certain pairs or individuals is incredibly limiting and is going to vary from person to person. If it matters that much to people, make them specify their definition and leave it at that. Other people shouldn't have to be forced to spend their time, money, and efforts on pairs they don't want to breed.
- Kris
(#15280)
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 4:06pm
Yea breeding for a profit goes hand and hand with overbreeding from what I see. I normally ask the users by pm how many times they consider overbreeding (about public slots). I also ask them personal slots where baby never leave my lair and there always different numbers. But less on public vs personal.
- Hogosha
(#43009)
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 4:13pm
My opinion is not represented in the poll
I can't even afford to breed my pets and never have been so I can't imagine even breeding 10+ times. Must be nice.
- Naru
(#3478)
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 4:14pm
I don't believe there should be any guidelines on over breeding. I mean, it's up to each individual player in my opinion - if someone wants to breed their pet tons of times, let them?
- Varyl
(#203)
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Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 4:20pm
As much as any arbitrarily chosen number could do, I think 10 is a nice even number that feels like a definite case of excess(entering double digits). Any vague "no overbreeding" rule though should be clarified more properly by the person setting that rule otherwise it does become up to interpretation of the owner rather than the seller, at least in my opinion. At least that's the thought I have whenever leaving vague rules it's a "use your judgement, if you think it might be then it is." Expecting anything more from vague rules you set is just not a smart way to run a business(and if you are selling things then you're running a business).
Posted on: Tue Jul 8, 2014 3:27pm
That would also mean SCC pets would be stricter than edited pets. Since its a lot easier to lose your special edit in a breeding, than to change what an scc looks like.