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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
- 🌊 SeaCrest
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:42pm
But the one site, two predict isn't retroactive, right? I think Frey said it's one site, three predict for current breedings in the queue?
- Nevara & Blue[H]
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:42pm
Okay, I'm not sure what that means though. Does that mean if we want two babies we have to do two predicts? Or, can we do one predict and one site baby?
~Blue
- Ash
(#90)
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:42pm
★Luna★kiri★ (#323)
I'll change the terminology in the main post then. People are getting refunds, not outright cancellations.
- JAK
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:44pm
Nevara & Blue (#19257) married pets get three babies. One is site made and two are predict. Unmarried pets get two babies. One site made and one predict. if you only want to make one predict instead of two for your married pair, that's up to you though.
- ☆Liya☆
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:45pm
Frey (#90) I don't see how they are any different. Refund, sure you get your coin and such back. But it's still cancelled.
- Nevara & Blue[H]
(#19257)
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:46pm
Okay, that makes much more sense then. Though on that note I'm not sure if the predicts cap should be 25GP because in that case it would cost me 50GP just to get two pets and it would almost be cheaper to just make brand new pets with crumbs or TSP (as some of the pets the result from HBC are under the 30% for TSP). Although, I do believe that raising it would be good, but maybe not that much...
~blue
- Ash
(#90)
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:47pm
I addressed married pets in the main post.
★Luna★kiri★ (#323) if I remember right if you get a refund of your pendant breeding you get the pendant automatically regened and ready to use again. Correct me if I'm wrong, anyone!
- JAK
(#15)
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:47pm
Nevara & Blue (#19257) The predict cap is just what the maximum is someone is allowed to pay for a predict. Nothing is stopping you from paying less than that.
- Nevara & Blue[H]
(#19257)
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:47pm
That's just for Silvers too. On other pets it would be significantly less expensive to just upload new pets, so that's something to keep in mind when discussing predicts.
~blue
Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 10:41pm
J.A.K. (#15) I honestly can't afford to spend anymore until June, dad is helping with cable bill so I don't have to scrimp, and have a decent chunk of funds invested right now with usd auctions.
If I'm understanding this right, that you mean that once the usd item comes out I could purchase it and add it rather then cancel and lose my que spot.
Thank you, I'll figure it out/decide this week I guess.