RFL Auction

[Liriel Garnet]

I just wanted to share a few thoughts about yesterday's RFL Auction.

First off, we, as a community owe the KittyCatS team a *huge* thank you!!!!!! If you listened to the auction, most of the other breedables offered unique breedable traits in their offerings. Cort emphasized over and over and over again how that would let the winners control the market for those traits. Our KittyCatS team denied the request that they do the same, knowing that it would create an unfair market advantage for people who had the cash to make such a purchase up front, to the point they'd be able to make their 'donation' back quickly and even profit. (Think about how much you've seen tigers or brand new traits sell for in the first few weeks until they become more widespread and you can see what I mean.)

Secondly, that means that those who purchased the cats did, in fact, actually make a donation to RFL rather than an investment where they can easily make back every linden they spent on the purchase. We can buy a cat with similar breeding potential for 790 lindens at the main store, rather than the 300K plus donation these people made for the special cats. So we owe those people a huge thank you as well.

Finally, for those who see the amount raised by each breedable in the auction as a 'competition', please remember that KittyCatS chose to protect their community breeders. I can only imagine how high the bids would have been had they chosen to follow the others. This shouldn't be a competition, it is a triumph for both RFL and the KittyCatS team and community!