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RE: Kittycest and what it means to us
To me, the designers of other breedables choose to disallow back breeding purely for emotional reasons. Most likely, I think, they were involved with a breedable which allowed it and felt it was "ruining" something ..
As a mathematician, I chuckle at these so-called restrictions. Every claim I've ever seen about the advantages is patently false.
Disallowing back breeding does NOT "level the playing field for players." In fact, it puts most players at a disadvantage. Well-experienced players will, on the other hand, have virtually no problems surmounting the restriction.
It does NOT support market prices. Actually, it has the exact opposite effect due to the huge over-supply of live specimens which need to be cleared out of your inventory before they eat you out of sim and Home location.
The only 'positive' effect that I've ever been able to prove about back-breeding restrictions is they are Very, Very Good for the publisher's bottom line. They will sell far more food. Unfortunately, that all too often simply means extending the life of an inferior product.
The only effective use of back breeding restrictions I've seen was for <unnamed other product> which claimed to be a "breedable" because the gambling system offered by that product was couched in activities which appeared like a breedable pet. For that product, back breeding had to be disallowed because it would have allowed fast and easy proof their "breeding" was simply random and they were not really a breedable at all.
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Kittycest and what it means to us
