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Site Update
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
- Haru
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 6:31am
If the coin is that unprofitable for the site how about stopping their release? Let people use up the remaining ones they have, but don't release any new ones.
- Spice
(#1431)
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 6:35am
At first your explanation seemed really clear, but by the time you got to the recap you have totally confused me. argh
- Tali
(#138)
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 7:03am
Understandable that this needs to change. Being retroactive though... i can undestand why that's upset a lot of people :/ especially those who were in shared agreements for the breeding. Going forward this is a good change though.
- Chelle & MIA
(#7310)
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 7:33am
Minerva (#23204) someone asked about that on pg 15 and Frey's answer was
Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 11:03pm
*Calico* (#25718)
For full predicts, the amount is the same!
- Minerva
(#23204)
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 7:35am
Chelle & Pard & Star (#7310) Ah thanks a lot for telling me! That's good to hear °3°
- Kiritora
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 7:49am
$20 is a bit much for an uncommon baby :/ That really adds up. For me picking the genus doesn't really sound too great for the price.
I guess if the item wasn't USD and more in GP I'd have less of an issue but if I'm looking to but a pendant and have to pay 20 USD each time....?
- Kiritora
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 7:51am
On top of this are the predict fees. Ugh
- Ash
(#1331)
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 7:52am
So wait... now I have to get psds, and make my own friggin predict for breedings ALREADY SUBMITTED?
I'm sorry but thats crap.
This should ONLY apply to breedings submitted after this date, otherwise its really frickin unfair.
- Frostfall
(#38271)
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 8:49am
Hmm, I can see this, but it would be nice to maybe have a USD add on that allows two babies from the coin. That would cover the extra expense and still make it an option.
Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 5:36am
Honey Love (#25910)
Because the HBC just got nerfed.