Spacing Limited Editions

[Tad Carlucci]

In general, KittyCatS handles the narrow path they have to walk pretty well.

Randomness is required to generate initial game tokens (starters). The issue is when some tokens have higher value than others, which usually results from different odds for the tokens. This can lead to violations of the Linden Labs Terms of Service. While we do see this happen, occasionally, with KittyCatS, its generally short-lived and not a controlling feature of the game.

In general, gender, which is always even-odds and only has two values, does not participate in this issue.

The issue at hand, though, is whether gender should have been solely random or whether they should have provided gender-selected vendors. This comes from the pairs which, when bred, produce a third special collection cat.

While the idea of having additional types of offspring is appealing, it would need to be controlled by game-play and not the initial randomness. In other words, new traits. Otherwise, it's an extension of the gambling phase and increases rather than decreases the risk of violation of the ToS.

In addition, it would most likely actually increase the complaints about the lack of gender determination.

My feeling is, since gender generally has nothing at all to do with the perceived value of the starters, and since, in collections as just released, it has very strong effect upon the players ability to produce a new, valuable game token, failure to provide gender-selected vendors, as they have in the past, unnecessarily increases the risk of violation of the prohibitions but does not quite cross the line. Adding additional non-genetic results, such as random, and sometimes rare, offspring, rather than the single one we see here, would most likely cross the line.