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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
- Frostfall
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 9:26am
Kita & Riri (#3988) Good to know, thanks! I must have missed that somehow.
- Haru
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 9:38am
Well, only if you wanted to have a second & third baby. Otherwise you can just leave it as it is. Ash (#1331)
- Altheora
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 9:38am
Am I like the only person who actually whole-heartedly approves of this? XD I would suggest raising the predict USD cap for BC/HBC, though. $5 is nothing.
- Saartje <3
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 10:12am
Altheora (#30554) You wholeheartedly approve of it being retroactive? So people who bought the coin for a certain amount of money with a certain goal (splitting the babies, etc) are not screwed over? :/
- Kirema
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 10:17am
I'm glad I never got to the saving point of one now.. This super sucks for any split deals, which I would suspect was a popular go to since both parties would have got a babe out of the deal.
- Counter Serum
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 10:19am
I get why people are frustrated but tbh I agree with making it retroactive if it's actually helping the site. HBCs are way behind, they're too much work for the pay, and IMO it's not fair to the artists working on the team to be expected to churn out 2-3 offspring with little compensation. If this helps get the queue moving w/ cancellations and artists having more reasonably sized lists, I support it. :U
- Moons 🌙
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 10:33am
Altheora (#30554)
You're not the only one, I agree with it too. Sure it would be nicer to not need to change anything, but I'd rather see change than see the site disappear completely, imho.
- atherum
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 10:47am
Altheora (#30554)
Certainly not the only one! :3
And I have to admit that I dislike seeing people just complaining about it without offering possible solutions. It isn't like this is a problem we can just ignore.
- Kita🦊
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 10:56am
I agree with it being retroactive.
15$ per second baby with the amount of coins in queue right now would be 2000$ to honor all of those. Even if only half of them had 2 babies it would be 1000$ for all of those.
Even though it sucks it's retroactive, I'm glad Slash took that into account and decided not to give 2 babies for each breeding in queue. Id rather have one baby (or pay 20$/40gp for the addon for a second one) than have aywas be in debt or have to take money from other areas (such as coding) to pay for another baby for everything already in queue.
-Kita
Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 9:13am
Frostfall (#38271)
That's going to happen. 20$ add-on that gives a second 30% edited baby and the user gets to choose the species of the babies if the breeding is with common/uncommon pets.
-Kita