I think the value of the kitty cat has changed tremendously because we are still selling average cats. I know a lot think beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but those shoppers look far and wide to find what they are after. Someone passing a store or looking in the two markets (profilers) online are specifically hunting for traits or looking for a spectacular kitty. As an auctioneer I see a lot of nice cats at auction. I also see people trying to sell what ever they get no matter how good the box. The problem with breeding a cat that everyone else has is just that, everyone else has it. What makes yours special if it has the same traits as everyone else's. I suggest breeding for beauty, mix up traits, don't try to sell your less than perfect cats while you tuck the best box away for yourself. This is going to sound harsh but get rid of your shitty cats. Send cats to menagerie...send boxes to menagerie. When you breed two cats and get the pair of kittens you are looking for, especially if they are much better, get rid of the old and open the new. If everyone would menagerie ordinary cats, the 3 4 5 6 7 t's that they are not using to trait up 8 and 9 traited then we wouldn't have so many cats that EVERYONE else does on the market. The other thing is, is stop expecting to feed your cats from the profits of selling a cat if you have 300 opened in your cattery. It's ridiculous to think that others in this market are responsible for feeding your cats. It is nice to sell, and it is nice to make some of the return off of newer traits etc, but its not ok to put prices so ridiculously high that no body can afford them, or so ridiculously low that you devalue a cat. Listen if you are trying to sell it for 100 lindens, then look at the cat...what is special about it? If it were special, you wouldn't be selling it for 100L... I have over 2500 boxes in my cattery, I sell a few boxes a month, mostly at auctions, and all of my boxes for the most part (99%) are 9t but I still won't just put one of them in an auction. I like them because they are my cats but they are not exceptional or overwhelmingly special. I only put out my exceptional ones into my store or at auction. Get better at your breeding (not intended to one person or other specifically) breed for quality not quantity, and stop trying to make money off other people. This is supposed to be a game not a job. Those few things should get the market running again. There was a time even 3 years ago that exceptional cats (considering traits out then) were all you saw around. Seeing 16 kittys cookie cutter kittys from two 7 t parents lined up in a store with a price tag on them was not so common. And one more time. MENAGERIE your excess. It sounds harsh, but people as much as I get attached to certain cats, these are pixels, and we need to remember that the sentiment that we attach to them is really not helping anyone in the long run. Thats just my two cents. Oh and one more thing. Patron the stores and auctions where cats are sold for reasonable prices...stop encouraging people to bargain basement prices by attending auctions and buying at stores that reduce to nothing. That will help the market too.
(03-09-2017 09:56 PM)Oselkhandro Resident Wrote: JessicaArianaHamby Resident said "I personally would really like to see KittyCats do what other breedables are doing... Once the cat reaches a certain age, it auto permapets for free.... If they do this, this will make KittyCats much more enjoyable, more affordable, and more attractive to people (as they won't be saying, "if I want to keep this cat, I have to fork over another 1,500L for a cat I spent 4,000 for!") If not free, then reduce the price significantly. Maybe raise perma to 2,000, and lower perma 120 to an affordable 400L or something like that. Maybe even keep it the same as it is now, but make the cats auto permapet at 200 days of age (they can even make it 200 days of age of eating)."
I agree with Jessica. I recently discovered another brand of breedable that permapets for free as soon as the pet breeds out. I was so thrilled that I literally whooped for joy. I LOVE my cats, but in truth, it is becoming much more financially attractive to shift over to dogs, knowing that if I love the dog, I can keep him forever as long as I leave out an empty food bowl. I have a dozen or more kitties sitting sick in my inventory because I cannot justify spending the Lindens to Permapet them or to keep feeding them. I refuse to "kill" them in the Menagerie, because these are beautiful sweet kitties who have done well for me. Please, KittyCatS, consider helping out those of us who get attached to our cats but who are not wealthy in real life (my husband wants me to stop KC all together, because it requires so much $ per month)
I love KittyCats, but that is one of my pet peeves, the cost of perma petting , and the fact that the price of food is still a little high for my liking. I don't think that it should cost to permapet. If I have paid for food and milk for 120 days then I have more than paid for my right to have it be a permapet when it turns 120.
Pricing: Food for thought!
