RE: Shade as trait?
I get what you're saying about 8T being counted less than 9T with sales. Curious Big eyes are also great. I think people do buy cats 7T and up pretty regularly - I know I have and do. Granted 9T sells best.
When I first joined KittyCats! I figured I wouldn't worry about shade. I've found that the different shades have grown on me over time. They aren't realistic, except as in so far as the porcelain mimics the many Asian cat statues (which I like), but I think the lack of reality is appropriate for SL. Fantasy and stretching the bounds of reality is part of what SL is for (just my opinion). And the shades do have a tremendous (or subtle) effect on the furs. I don't really think you can appreciate a Russian Blue unless it has flair shade behind it - and you can't see that on the box or on the website.
One thing that converted me from absolutely hating illume, was turning my client "glow" setting down from the default of 2 to 1.
As to different shapes... I suspect that would be difficult. I do think that it would be great fun if they could add an extra prim around the neck for some cats - to make menagerie lions for instance, or Norwegian skog kats.
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