(09-18-2015 01:02 PM)Ivy Norsk Wrote: My own overall take on the Confetti Project: once upon a time when KittyCatS started, all was mayhem and a wild mad cuteness and nobody knew what was going on. It was a heady mix of surprising new traits appearing like birthday presents and high auction prices. (I was not here for the beginning - this is only how I imagine it.)
Gradually the KittyCats system was codified and beat into an understandable order through the patient work and dedication of many orderly breeders. Breeders got really good at finding recessive traits almost Instantly: two weeks for initial kittens and time for breedbacks and voila - all was known.
I think Confettis are not only meant to take more boxes out of the market through Menagerie, but meant to re-instill some of that "New Game" scent back into the air. A new system to figure out. And it's harder. Much harder. Because there are some ways in which breeding has gotten easier. So now the odds of success are much lower, and it's going to take experienced breeders to tease it all out.
Edited to respond to Tad: but Confettis could have their own hidden shades that could pass out into the mainstream via non-confetti breeds.
In the beginning it wasn't total mayhem. But not many knew exactly how to breed.
There were a hand full of ppl that did know how to breed out traits. Then a few taught others and so forth.
New traits were always more rec. than the traits that were already out. Breeding starters took months and involved a lot of back breeding, in breeding, and luck.
The nice thing was, that once you got the trait it stuck. Once you got, say a fur, you kept that fur, so there was no stepping back. Always forward.
With cocos, if they continue to pass gen traits, then it's months of breeding gen traits in the hopes of getting something better. And even if you get the color berries, you can't breed other traits into them unless it's from other cocos. So that's more months of breeding gens in the hopes of getting the traits to pass.
This is nothing like it was in the beginning.
