KittyCatS! Market Improvement Suggestions

[doubledareme Resident]

(10-06-2014 07:23 PM)Shamu077 Resident Wrote:  

(10-06-2014 12:59 PM)PrettyPoizen Resident Wrote:  

Quote:In general, it would help if the cats stop being able to make so many offsprings, somehow reduce the cats flooding the market.

This is something I totally understand in a very real sense...Overbreeding destroys any breedable market whether SL or RL. There are just so many "homes" to go around and even with most of us having hundreds of cats, that is not even a small percentage of the tens of thousands produced by just a few thousand breeders each month -Nevermind the total population of box makers! So it should not surprise anyone that the market is littered with kitties and causing many to sell fairly high quality cats for 50-75L and therefore further depressing an already depressed market.

So, I would think its in our best interest to apply some Real Life selective breeding strategies here on SL...I know these are just pixels, but the economic damage is real...i'm jus sayin....

Well the real solution lies in Real Life as well: Eliminate the "birthing" of KittyBoxes and ONLY allow live kittens to be born from breeding.

Now the cats get old and "die", or at least become pets. The tens of thousands of Kittyboxes being displayed as musuem pieces at the secondary market sims would be useless. Probably give the boxes a 3 month grace period before they no longer "Unpack".

The only exception would be starter boxes which might contain new traits, including the SE Collection cat boxes. KittyCats could still compete with breeders by selling the collection cats for a Limited Time, meaning NOT an entire month.

The old unpackable kittyboxes not unpacked during some grace period could be sent to the menagerie for $K credits, which would also be able to purchase food for the Live cats.

Of course this does not fit the highly profitable business model for the KittycatS owners, and the secondary market owners would scream about losing the rent from their museum shops. Live cats as 2 prims would need to replace the kittybox business for them.

This will never happen, since it would solve the oversupply problem at the expense of the sim owners and kittycat owners, and make the real breeders think before breeding another kitten.

But think of the effects - old traits could truly become extinct unless some breeder keeps the line alive - by breeding live cats. Rare retired traits could still be gotten from older Special Cat Kittyboxes, which would retain the ability to be Unpacked. Now the special cat collectors might have a reason to birth their dusty boxes.

As far as the rest of the discussion - I take offence at anyone who claims breeding is only a hobby and you have to be stupid to think you can even break even. If you run your breeding business as a business, it is still possible. But remember that 90% of all small businesses fail anyway, in RL or SL.

Shamu

I think you have to be careful not to step on toes of people who pay for these cats to be bred. i pay for my boxes ...every one...by feeding my cats and breeding them so I can have the boxes. For some its not about selling every box. In fact I know many that actually get pleasure from hoarding boxes...and some never have the intent of selling them. Once someone purchases the right to breed a box it belongs to them you can't just say...oh sorry...that box no is not longer able to be opened. THAT would be a disaster as people would be rushing to open boxes rather than losing them. There are more practical ways to even out the market. And as I said in a later post on this thread one really good way would be to retire more traits...offer a couple new traits monthly even if its just two, that would increase the purchase of new starters. Also having better incentives to menagerie would be fantastic...i personally don't really care for the tigers except the ones that actually look like a tiger...These menagerie tigers should be new every year...or added to every year.

Also something to think about is the fact that people need to be more selective with breeding and realistic with prices. When KittyCats started there were not as many traits and one could realistically sell the cats for a better price. When I started several months back the Black Russian had not been retired yet and I saw doz of them EVERYwhere cheap cheap. Now that they are retired people are using them as specialty kittens...adding newer traits to a much loved fur increasing the value of them. I for one don't think keeping these ancient traits coming out of new starters is very smart. Wouldn't it be nice if at some point having these outdated traits actually meant your cat had value because they were not so readily available.

Telling people they just spent months of breeding and tonnes of money to get their boxes only to make them useless is asking for trouble. I own those boxes, not KittyCats and I paid for them but raising/feeding/breeding my cats. I do not see expiry dates on boxes as an option however expiry dates on traits would do the trick.