Technical Breeding Tips and Advice

[Tad Carlucci]

Use them, for example, to segregate your Cattery. It's a lot easier to remember that those eight lines, and their boxes, are for a specific project, and not mix in strays or accidentally pair off an important breeder, if you have to go to the hassle of sending them in-world and passing them to someone else.

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Another use: say you have a lot of boxes you want to keep for the future .. say, as a "seed bank" in case things to terribly wrong, or you goof, and you suddenly find you don't HAVE that eye gene you want to try crossing onto your Seal Lynx line. Well, if your seed bank is on another ALT, and in the Cattery, you gain: web access; and the safest possible storage (by definition you can NOT lose a box there unless EVERYONE loses EVERYTHING due to a server wipe-out).

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Say you have some lives you want to keep, but don't want to feed. Pass them to an ALT and put them in the Cattery but never purchase food for them. In a year or two, when those special cats have become "rare" and "desirable" to collectors, you can pull them out, feed them for a week, and have a healthy specimen to offer for sale, having saved a pile on food costs along the way. Since they're over there, instead of over here, you don't have to see all those sick kitties. Plus, you get web access, and the safest possible storage, just as you do for your seed bank.

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Say you're paranoid and don't want anyone to be able to see what you're working one. Using an ALT, if you never de-cloak her, you can claim that you simply "purchased" the cat and nobody can prove differently.