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This newspost is going to be a potentially upsetting one to some people, but please bear with as I explain some changes we are making to Holiday Breeding Coins.
As a result of raising the pay for contract breeding artists and giving them fairer wages for their work, a problem began with edited coins. Holiday Breeding Coins were a great way to breed Silver pets and other genuses without getting a hybrid, and for a cheaper price.
However, the fact that Holiday Breeding Coins typically produce two offspring regularly (instead of the chance of 1 or 2 via gold Breeding Coins) means that the queue, now quite large, competes with the regular Breeding Coin queue and clogs up artist time. This creates long wait times for offspring from both coins in the end. Because of the fact that they are also cheaper than gold Breeding Coins, the cost effectiveness of doing two offspring and paying out the same is not sustainable. We also do not want to lower artist pay for Holiday Coin artists either, since that also isn't fair.
So as of today, the Holiday Breeding Coin will only produce one offspring by the artist team. As a compromise, however, if the breeding has common/uncommon species parents, you are welcome to submit a second offspring via predict if you choose. This is retroactive and will affect all current breedings in queue that have not yet been assigned to an artist. Up until this newspost date you will also be allowed, for said retroactive breedings, to submit ONE predict for rare parent HBC breedings and TWO predicts for common/uncommon HBC breedings. Married pairs in this retroactive period can receive 2 predicts for rare parents, and 3 predicts for common/uncommon.
From tomorrow onward, however, any new breedings will get one artist baby for rares, and one artist baby+one predict baby for common/uncommon. Married pairs will get one artist baby + one predict for rares, and one artist baby + two predicts for common/uncommon.
I will give the Holiday queue a week as of tomorrow, May 10th, a time period that, if you wish to request a refund of your breeding due to the change, you will be welcome to ask me to do so personally. Remember that you can easily flag a breeding as having predicts to take it out of the assignment queue if you wish to put predicts without risk of having it assigned.
This is an inconvenience, I know, but the fact of the matter is we wish to be able to keep fair pay for the artists involved while also keeping ahead financially. We will have a dedicated Holiday Coin artist for a few months to see how this helps us as well, and ensure that the queue moves at a steady pace.
If you have any questions or other concerns regarding this, please don't hesitate to ask.
ADDENDUM FOR PREDICT CAPS
BC predict caps have been raised to 15 GP per one predict. HBC predicts are 25 GP per one predict.
For the tl;dr crowd:
- GP Predict cap for HBC has been raised to 25, as requested.
- Rare breeders with HBC can add an extra predict for free. Uncommon/Common breeders can add two extra predicts for free, meaning you get an extra baby that you expected with HBC. This is good for all breedings submitted before this news post.
- A new USD item will be added for $20 that will fund another 30% edited baby in an HBC breeding. Yes, it will work for rares too. It will also allow you to select which parent species you want in common/uncommon breedings.
Posted by Ash
(#90) on Sat May 9, 2015 9:24pm
- Inu
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:24pm
It still sucks, BUT, it is a lot better than before and at least an attempt at making things right. That being said, I appreciate this much.
- Bones
(#250)
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:25pm
Thank you Slash! My faith has been restored (I shouldn't of freaked out anyway you guys always solve problems) ilu guys - chu
- AremRae
(#3998)
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:26pm
For the two extra predicts we're getting now, do we still split the coins edit % equally between all three babies we would get? (so 2 predicts leaving % for the site made baby?) Or are they somewhat independent of that or?
- Erithan - super busy
(#49253)
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:26pm
So no chance of being able to request the normal 15% edits rather then 30%? Just as a choice? I want my breeding as it was intended/planned for since 2013 with a lot of investment, and am even willing to pay out another 20$, but it obviously won't be the same with such a big edit increase=/
- K-HAO-S
(#11644)
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:27pm
What happens with married pairs, which originally got 3 babies? Can we submit 2 predicts, and still get 2 more babies, or do we submit 3 babies and yet 1 done with hbc or what? I ask because I currently have 2 married pair breedings in queue
- JAK
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:27pm
AremRae (#3998) Your predicts can each take advantage of the 30% edits. So you would be submitting a single predict with 30% edits each time (or less edits if you want).
- JAK
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:28pm
Erithan (#49253) you can always request less edits than the coin allows, just make a note in the breeding notes so the artist and admin team know.
- Ash
(#90)
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:29pm
Magma (#11644)
Just submit your two predicts, no need for more. You'd still get 1 offspring made by an artist.
- Ash
(#90)
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:29pm
Magma (#11644)
OH wait on retroactive ones, you'd get 1 offspring by staff and 3 predicts yea. From this newspost on it's going to be 2 predicts, 1 artist offspring though.
Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:24pm
Ezra 훗 Tears (#50345) That is not true, engagement rings do not always guarantee extra babies. There are a couple queues that restrict it to 1 baby. PMBC has a small chance of getting the second baby, again because it was costing more to produce 2 babies than the coin costed (same situation here). The new trash shop coin only makes 1 baby, period, says so in the description.