Rala Wrote:Re-limitation of the Limited Editions
Promotional periods for food and milk
A new Menagery Tiger
More Kitty Dollars for a sent in box or cat
What about marketwide hunts which go over all the marketplaces
Restrictive auction rules which look on quality!
I agree with all of these suggestions except the last. I think that not only are restrictive auction rules bound to fail because who is to enforce them, and trying to do so will lead to bad-blood and drama, but it is unnecessary. In such a market, with such lovely cats that are not selling, a cat that isn't up to snuff simply doesn't sell at auction. Yes, I know some auctioneers put pressure on the audience to bid, and it must be hard not to, but really when people go to auctions they know what they want and how many lindens they have available to spend. Not bidding IS the correction. Sadly many cats who Are of quality are also not bought because available lindens are tied up in catfood.
Most of those suggestions devolve to KittyCatS HQ. I think they should take all of them. So the next thing is what We as breeders Do, in very practical terms, to Collaborate? And the main thing I can think of is to menagerie cats, a certain percentage of a cattery. There's no way to enforce it. But it's the only thing that hits at supply. Certainly not everyone will do it... a really large percentage of breeders don't even read the forum or realize that this conversation is happening. Most only check the forum when they have to file a support ticket on a cat. It is up to the Market Owners to get any word out.
One of the more interesting suggestions (and I'm sorry I forget who made it, I think several did in different forms) is a far more radical retirement of traits. Again KittyCatS has to do this unless we collaborate with a mass menagerieing of all things mysterious (but it takes time to breed all our cats away from there - I know I've been trying to get many of my myst-tailed cats to throw other things but progress is slow because cats are stubborn). I have often wondered why the Mysterious traits stay in the LEs. I've come to the conclusion that the LE lottery is meant to be a kind of a gumball game and KittyCatS has come to rely on Myst as a kind of default, i.e., they only have so many traits to pack the kittie boxes with. It may not be all that easy coming up with new traits (though eyes and whisker colors would seem to be easier than different whisker shapes and we could use more whisker colors). Also, it is not true now, but will be true later, that KC HQ will have to spend time doing whatever research and development they need to to get the cats into SL2. I suspect the whole market may be holding its breath at that point.
Quick edit to add: Promotional periods of food and milk only work if the spare money thus gained is spent on buying other people's cats, not on doubling down on the food. The point would be to get money circulating in the market again. If people just use it to open more cat boxes, any benefit is lost.
KittyCatS! Market Improvement Suggestions
