I LOVE this feature for Meeroos & Fennuxes (yes I have a few of both species
), but I also see a few drawbacks.
First of all, it is SO frustrating when you TP to a nest you want to buy - only to find out that the damn scanner-thing was scanning not only nests for sale, but ALL nests & lives including people's personal breeders. That's a major drawback of the Meeroo-system "Roo-Mate".
The Fennux made that better - you actually have to set each individual den/animal for sale, so the above doesn't happen... much... except when people "cheat" to pull people to their market by setting stuff on the online market that is super-awesome-deluxe, but not actually for sale.
The general drawback of both systems is that in some ways it hurts the secondary market, or rather the social aspect of it. You don't often see people browsing markets, checking bid boards & meeting each other there. For instance the Too Adorable bid board area has become quite the meeting place - which it perhaps wouldn't be if everybody was browsing via a website instead. But then again, I could be wrong. Bid boards will most likely always be THE place for potential super deals, online market or not....
Another drawback is for the market owners.... Why even rent a market stall when your boxes & cats can be sold from home just as easily because everyone just browses the website-market and TP's directly?
-But that could of course be seen as a major advantage for those that no longer has to rent stalls to sell kitties - so that goes both ways. Also, Meeroo- and Fennux-markets still exists, so I suppose it's not everyone who just sets their animals for sale at home after all.
That being said, it IS super-awesome to be able to sit at home and browse for that dream-meeroo I've been looking for... being able to check the market for that specific combo ever so often, and being able to follow the market SO much better, by easily looking up "How many with this trait/coat are for sale just now?"
If this was possible for KittyCatS, it would be nothing short of AWESOME! -Particularly because there are simply too many markets now for anyone to be able to check them all, all the time. So we all run around like headless chickens in a way, not knowing what is out there, how other people price it, who has what etc.etc. -And we are ALL in doubt of how to price out stuff, so we ask other people who are also in doubt and who can't follow all the markets either.
The only reason this system is even possible for Meeroos & Fennuxes though, is that the info on each animal is already publicly available and viewable via the HUDs + websites. This is not the case for KittyCatS, who unfortunately have made the whole pedigree-system extremely hard to access by anyone but the owner - which would make a third-party market place like Roo-Mate impossible, and require a major change in the system for an official one like the Fennux one.
I do think a change of system would be good, all in all, especially if KittyCatS keep growing and the secondary market to become increasingly confusing, for new people in particular. But yes, it would take a major change from KittyCatS, so let me suggest once again: Remove names of owners from pedigrees, and make them publicly accessible! Then we could FINALLY access the full pedigree of our own kitties, even if we sold ancestors, and sharing would be so much easier <3
Sorry, this was quite a ramble - trying to see things from both sides often is - but conclusion: YES! Please give us a system like this! :-D
-Saga
