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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
- Nevara & Blue[H]
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 11:58pm
Kita & Riri (#3988)
I was thinking about this in the shower /weird I know/. As I was doing this I realized that as add-ons were put on breeding the edit percentage went up. So, in that case, I think 25GP is far :).
~blue
- Macheeba
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 11:58pm
I'm sorry if someone already asked this, but are we allowed to use greater fertility potions with HBCs to get two babies?
- atherum
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 12:01am
Macheeba (#23706) Yeah, that was answered a while back and the verdict on that one was 'No' unless I'm much mistaken.
- atherum
(#11846)
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 12:04am
Macheeba (#23706) Yeah, that was answered a while back and the verdict on that one was 'No' unless I'm much mistaken.
- Haru
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 12:05am
Why not make it a chance of 1 or 2 babies like with BC? Getting only 1 baby by default isn't worth it...
- bd84
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 12:09am
This is really kind of crappy to learn about. There are barely anyone who do metal and Lesser predicts anymore let alone for HBC and BC. I have no need of hybrids so the holiday coin was my coin of choice to save for. Now it's gonna be pretty useless to me since I cannot make predicts. :/ Back to lesser coins I suppose.
- Narwhal
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 12:10am
@Frey (#90)
I have an Unidentified Embryo attached to my breeding. How would the predicts for this work? Do I have to message someone to get what the random species will be for the two predicts or do I get to just pick?
- Narwhal
(#18635)
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 12:11am
I have no idea how to ping people in the news posts.. I am so hopeless sometimes.
- Kanein
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 12:11am
i dont know much about how everything exactly works but aywas has always seem full of helpful players.. Would it be possible to find Experienced Players who would be willing to donate their time to help Make the already submitted players up until this day their 2 offspring as the coin was suppose to be? & any breeding submitted after this announcement would only give 1 off?
I am sure that if asked some players would donate their time ( or even for a small 5 gp fee for helping)..
as said before Not sure how that would work out but just an idea to throw in.
I mean If i knew how to make them Id honestly help for free to help aywas out cause this site is amazing.
Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 11:58pm
Either one of you guys able to explain the edit % for getting the 2 predict babies, Frey (#90) or J.A.K. (#15)? I'm not sure if I'm missing it being worked up or if it's missing. ((Or anyone who knows?))