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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
- Ash
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 9:37pm
The reason it's retroactive is there's way too many coins in queue right now to be able to handle. BC has slipped, it's crawling to almost 400 in queue, and HBC cannot be sustained with that many as well. So either BC can slip to a long wait time, or HBC will wait a very long time.
- exo
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 9:37pm
J.A.K. (#15)
I think Erithan meant jipped. :P Which is slang over here for cheated. Personally, I feel this retroactive stance is a decision best left to you guys, since it doesn't affect me either way, but I also feel for the people who bought the HBCs. Honestly though, if this helps Aywas /stay/ around, I'd rather deal with one baby than no Aywas at all. btw, thank you for alerting everyone and keeping us updated!
- Ancient Mew(Sylver)
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 9:38pm
Frey (#90) what about it lady? Gfps with hbcs?
- Ash
(#90)
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 9:38pm
I'm saying no to greater fertility potion use or any kind of fertility potion use on HBCs due to this change. So all KB articles will be reflected to this.
- Kita🦊
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 9:39pm
Since we can submit predicts can predict caps PLEASE be changed/increased?
It's basically impossible to commission a predict for BC/HBC with the current caps, so even though we can submit a prediction with the HBC now...I don't know how I'm going to find anyone who will take 8 GP (or around 8 GP) to do quality edits for a prediction.
- Kuro (2Byte)
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 9:39pm
I do understand this idea, and the need to do so. Maybe making a new HBC add-on only item for guaranteed 2 babies would be a more welcomed solution..?
- zeph & co
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 9:39pm
Pendant slots? And what if the person you have the breeding submitted with doesn't have the fee to pay back?
- AremRae
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 9:40pm
I'm very frustrated that it's retroactive, after paying pretty high prices for hbcs and at the time being guaranteed two babies. But if it's absolutely needed I can see why it would be. Maybe it could be considered to up the HBC predict pay cap? As it stands, it is near impossible to find anyone to do a HBC predict because of the incredibly low predict pay.
- Ancient Mew(Sylver)
(#31969)
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 9:40pm
Frey (#90) okay understood. Didnt know the queue was so HUUUGE
Ill make sure I use hbcs on species that always got 1 baby via them anyway :p
Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 9:37pm
I don't know if you can use the fertility potion. That's up to Frey but I wouldn't suggest it's a very good idea.
Inu (#45093) No, it's not scamming. You can request for the coin to be refunded to you, and request a refund for breeding fees or whatever. You are not out anything but your time.