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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 $20 that will fund another 30% edited baby in an HBC breeding. Yes, it will work for rares too. It will also allow you to select which parent species you want in common/uncommon breedings.
Posted by Ash
(#90) on Sat May 9, 2015 9:24pm
- Ash
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 9:47pm
Retroactive people cannot use GFPs either... I'm sorry but that's just going to make the same problem happen all over again. I don't mind raising the predict cap though. What would people want as a fair cap? Suggestions?
- AremRae
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 9:47pm
Could there also be the possibility of a USD funded edit potion type addon for hbc? Give 50% edits on the one baby you would normally get, for 5-10$? That would stimulate a little extra income for Aywas, and give us another option for HBC that would be pretty fun.
- Kita🦊
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 9:47pm
J.A.K. (#15)
Why not a USD only HBC only add-on to add a second baby to a HBC breeding? It could be 15-20$ and that would pay for the artist having to make the second baby?
- Erithan - super busy
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 9:48pm
Would something like the new pen, or the painted gold be an idea to "tip" the artists for the extra offspring, at least for those who have things in que currently?
- JAK
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 9:49pm
Kita & Riri (#3988) I'm not opposed to the idea but wouldn't that cost more than getting a predict?
- AremRae
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 9:50pm
For cap prices, personally, I wouldn't do a HBC baby for less than 15-20 gp usually. So I think the cap should be a minimum of 15 (though I feel that would still be way too low) maximum 25?
- Inu
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 9:52pm
Maybe open a community forum to discuss it then? The thought of getting three offsprings for retroactive ones are cool, but that's an expense that I wasn't expecting. While I can afford it, I don't really want to put out an unexpected 10-30 GP
- Fannish (FreeFlier)
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 9:52pm
I think this coin should always be 2 predict babies or 1 site bred. That keeps the coin value from absolutely tanking.
I speak as someone who paid the high premium for the HBC breeding coin.
- Kita🦊
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Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 9:53pm
J.A.K. (#15)
Getting predicts done is a pain and I would honestly rather spend 15-20$ and get another site done baby then have to search for someone doing predicts.
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Agreeing with Arem on a 15-25 GP cap. Maybe just 2x-2.5x what the artists are paid in USD per baby (so if they're paid 10$ the cap is 20 GP, etc.?)
Posted on: Sat May 9, 2015 9:46pm
WillZephZira&Zombie (#6312) I don't know, you'd have to ask Frey.