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Holiday Breeding Coin Changes & Predict Caps

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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

Comments: 255

K-HAO-S (#11644)

Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:30pm

Ok, thank you for the quick reply.

☆Liya☆ (#323)

Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:30pm

Random question/idea? For pendant refunds... why not just cancel the breeding and NOT refund the pendant [so that the timing for said pendant is not skewed. Some people like to keep them on a strict schedule] and send out a coin instead? It doesn't screw with the pendants and all...

AremRae (#3998)

Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:31pm

Ah thank you so much Slash, it's a bit tough filtering through all this info at once XD

Ash (#90)

Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:31pm

★Luna★kiri★ (#323)

Because a user would get 2 coins/uses that way. We aren't giving two HBC uses to a person.

☆Liya☆ (#323)

Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:32pm

Frey (#90) How? If the pendant slot is refunded, that breeding is GONE. Dead. If the Pendant is STILL regenning, then the slot is GONE. Completely inaccessible. Give them a coin to give them THAT slot back.

How is that giving people double?

Erithan - super busy (#49253)

Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:32pm

J.A.K. (#15) ok, thank you, I've only ever done a few breedings, so on top of being rather sad, it's all confusing as well. Appreciate the clarification/information. Sorry my brain is mush, and thank you for adding a coin tot he usd shop, which I assume if I pull a breeding I could re-add it and just add the usd item for 2 offspring? (if that's correct no need to reply)

Kita🦊 (#3988)

Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:33pm

Here is a question for Slash:
With the new add-on, would it be an option to get a predict done and pay that non-site artist 10$ for the predict?
Kinda like the Artist Tickets/Crystal Egg Tickets/TFE's on the USD predict boards?

Thought just crossed my mind so I figured I would ask.

☆Liya☆ (#323)

Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:33pm

Frey (#90) Or did you perhaps miss part of my post? I said make it that it's cancelled, not refunded, and just send a coin in their place. [Or see if a bit of coding can be done to make up for that].

Narwhal (#18635)