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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
- Bones
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 11:25pm
Thanks Frey! That's pretty neat I hope I can find an artist :)
- Twocue
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 11:31pm
Frey (#90) So does this mean we can use edit potions with HBC now? Since it is only one baby anyways?
- Britt
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 11:37pm
I really do understand why this had to happen, HOWEVER... I think the breedings already submitted/in waiting should STILL get TWO babies. Me and my Best Friend SPLIIITTT the cost for two HBC's so we could both get babies... and now one of us will be gyped out of a baby from each breeding. It isn't fair....
@ 46917 : I KNOW RIGHT?! Lol 50% should be added to HBC's now.. XD
- Haru
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 11:42pm
If we're getting only 1 baby from site artist as default please make edit potions & greater edit potions be compatible with HBC breedings!
- Broken
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 11:44pm
Not really happy about this at all as I've tried in the past to get an artist to do predicts for my HBP breedings but no one wants to do them.
That being said I do have a question that I want clarification on. I have a rare breeding in now (one rare pet and one SCC) so to get a 2nd offspring I can submit a predict and get one site baby + the predict one in the next week??
@Frey (hopefully tagging right?)
- slothful
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 11:48pm
There is a gap missing. I think? What if you want to submit a predict for a second rare baby yourself or comissioned by others and not by a site artist... Maybe if someone opts to do predicts only, they should be allowed to submit either two rares or three uncommon/common babies. Since there would be no need to pay an artist for these breedings and in fact GP might end up getting sunk into the site via paying the newly increased HBC predict cap for two rare predicts. therefore leading to a future demand for more and thus the need for someone to buy more GP... then this option isn't really circumventing marriage as much as smoothing the cracks... This wouldn't really affect married pets to the point it would cost an extra penny either.. as the benefit from being married would mean that a user could get one site made rare pet and one predict able to be uploaded. It was stated that not all breeding coins are affected by the engagement wing.. and there is still a way to get a huge perk with being able to get one site bred along with the capability to upload 1 rare predict or two common/uncommon predicts. There would be not absolute need to allow people submit 3 rare predicts or 4 common/uncommon predicts because of this (if continuing that mindset for theall predicts option that is). As that would seem a little excessive, I think... Or maybe give married couples the perks and be excessive but make predicts only a breeding add-on worth idk.. 5 to 8 GP or something like that... It makes things a little complicated. But I mean.. breeding is gonna be complicated. Breeding has low standards for easy to comprehendness it almost seems XD;
- exo
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 11:50pm
J.A.K. (#15)
Ah, got it! Sorry, never knew that. Thank you for educating me!
- Twocue
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 11:56pm
J.A.K. (#15)
Also so let me try to understand. So we submit the predicts normally like we would any other breeding and email the PSDs and stuff? And then the site artist makes the other one?
I'm just trying to make sure. I don't want to submit my predicts and then it be accepted like OK ALL DONE NO SITE ARTIST BABY FOR YOU XD You know?
- Haru
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 11:56pm
I'm attatching my edit potion to the breeding I have in queue! :D
Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 11:25pm
So now we get one 50% edited baby yes?