Permapetting

[Malicia Python]

(hehe love that word )
I know the permapet potion pays for the server place. But I think there should be more versions offered for cats of different ages (i.e accumulated food costs). I have some pets hitting a year now, but still I shy to perma pet them - it is a lot of money in one go. And nowadays, it is way harder to maintain one's cattery than some ago.

Many ppl - me, too - keep their retired cats in their invent so they occupy server space, too without being fed. I fully understand why KC isnt offering the perma potion for free, but a sale or a wider range - depending on the cats' age - might make those ppl buy the potions who are not willing or able to afford the 1.5 for each cat (and those cats are on the servers anyway )

Maybe there is a kind of compromise, both sides will gain from
Mal

[Tad Carlucci]

Perma-petting does not pay for anything you can't get for free except the ability to see your cat running and playing.

If you have a special cat you want to save for a year or two in case the you want to play with it again, or in case market develops and you can sell it at a high price, just box it and store it in inventory. You get the same free updates. You get the same free space on the server. And if you lose the box you get the same free replacement. In a year, when you want to see it again, pull it out, feed it for a week, and it's as if you fed it all year without fail. The only differences? You didn't pay to feed it. You didn't have it running around your cattery, and you have to move it to a skybox for a week so you don't have to see under a blanket.

If you do that, and have the cat out for a month or so each year, you can go about a decade before the costs of feeding the cat exceed the cost of permapetting the moment the idea to keep the cat hit you.

[Malicia Python]

Thx for sharing your insights. But this was not about saving food or gaining "free" server space. I wanted to suggest some more variety in the permapet potions.

[Omen Blackheart]

I second what Malicia said in the start of the post

[Saga Felix]

Don't know why I missed this thread when it was first made - I also second Malicia's suggestion. At the current cost, I simply refuse to pay for perma-pet potions.
I have some cats running around on pet-food, they cost me 75L/Month (If buying 20-pack food - otherwise 85) - if I perma-pet them, they cost me the same as food for 1 year and 8 months would do - in one go! -And that is the cheaper perma-potion, the 120+ one.
Heck, before 1 year and 8 months has passed, I have changed my mind on which cats I want to have running around, surely. It's only just a year ago I even started with KittyCatS, and I sure changed my mind a few times since then already ;-)

Take it at least below 1000L for perma-pets, and I'll be the first to stand in line. Until then, I am stubborn

[Malicia Python]

Hear hear Saga XD
Honestly, I am stubborn about the 1k+ stuff, too. My oldest is over a year now, he ate and somehow I think, he deserves a special potion.

[Pudenta Magic]

Reupping this thread and casting my vote.

I have kitties that I've now been feeding for over 500 days. Admittedly, it's at the pet rate, but still .... I really wish there was an automatic option to permapet at certain age.

Heehee .. like over 500 days, maybe?

[Nynaveve Wirefly]

Frankly I'd cast my vote for auto-permapet at 121 days. At that point they are non-breeding and automatically cut back to pet food anyway. Its half the income for KittyCats then. Yet the cost to permapet them is only $300L cheaper than a younger cat, which makes zero sense to me. I'd request at least knocking the Geriatric Potion down to something like $500L. I can understand charging more for a younger cat, since it would take potential food/milk/vitamin/offspring income off the grid.

This is the most expensive breedable to permapet that I am currently aware of on the grid.

[dakillakm Resident]

500 a pop for the 120 crowd would be AMAZING! Of course, auto perma-petting would be even better but better to dream small I guess. I would also anecdotally note that even with the smaller amount of food needed after the 120 mark, my grandmas and grandpas still get inventoried. So, for a lot of people who talk about all the kitties they have waiting to be permapetted I would guess many of those kitties are in inventory. These kitties are not eating, not making any money for KC, and still taking up server space. If the price of the permapetting were cheap enough to encourage easy use then maybe I could more easily decide who to permapet and who to send off to the menagerie and save some server space.