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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
- Ezreal <3 Z
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Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 6:00pm
oeste (#39579)
Thanks for pointing out exactly what I was trying to say! ^w^
- NyctiCorax
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Posted on: Mon May 11, 2015 4:18pm
I understand the decision, I'm just finding it really strange it works for all breedings in queue before this newspost.
I guess the 2 predicts make up for that, but it still kind of sucks people are being forced into accepting getting just one baby or forced into spending more money or time on predicts... :(
This also really makes me reconsider if I actually want to save up for a HBP..
- Kouga & Rosie
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Posted on: Wed May 13, 2015 12:00am
Frey (#90) J.A.K. (#15) - I don't remember it in the comments or the news post so quick question, the predicts are we supposed to do those like the Painted Twins function? Put that the breeding has predicts, submit the predicts, than it will get kicked back into he regular que once those are accepted or what ever? Or do we just need to sub the predicts, but leave the 'has predicts' thingy off and just note it in the notes or what?
- Haru
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Posted on: Thu May 14, 2015 7:27am
Will my breeding be assigned to the artist if I'll upload one predict? Or is it possible that it will be skipped? I want 2 babies but I have funds only for one predict...
- Erithan - super busy
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Posted on: Sun May 17, 2015 3:45pm
Kouga32 (#768)
not sure if you got an answer, to my understanding if your going to get predicts, the suggestion was to check the "has predicts: box until you get your predicts submitted then to uncheck it.
That was the mentioned measure if you wanted to avoid the chance of the breeding being assigned.
- Haru
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Posted on: Sun May 17, 2015 5:03pm
Why HBC queue is still stuck at 25th december? ;A;
- Kouga & Rosie
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Posted on: Sun May 17, 2015 10:38pm
Erithan (#49253) - yes that was a suggestion mentioned, but I thought it came from a user so I wasn't sure if that was official word on how to do the extra predict babies for the HBCs or not... did it come from someone 'offical' after all?
- Erithan - super busy
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Posted on: Mon May 18, 2015 2:06pm
Kouga32 (#768)
I have a pm from frey, read over it they said it would be a good idea to check the box until predicts are put in if you want to be safe about the breeding not being assigned. I'm wondering now though if you get kicked to the back, or how unchecking puts you back in que.@@
- Kouga & Rosie
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Posted on: Mon May 18, 2015 6:00pm
Erithan (#49253) - I would think it works like the new PBC que, you are where you are, but having that box checked means you just won't be assigned, but unchecking it puts you back where you were before you checked it yer just able to have yer breeding assigned now too
Posted on: Sun May 10, 2015 5:38pm
Fannish (FreeFlier) (#1818)
Correct. The only way you would not get one of those two silvers back. Would be if you attached an unidentified embryo. Which will 100% randomize what genus you get back. (Could be a lepu, could be a melo. ect ect)