This is (still!) a major issue for me too. While I am NOT the type to go around and mutter "if I don't have my way, I don't wanna play!", I must admit that lately, I have felt a lot like that.
I haven't been in SL much anyway, I cut my cats down to a number around 40, my meeroos are down to around 20, and "the final cut" (0!) is getting VERY tempting every time another completely useless kitten sees the light of day - a pain that is felt even more now that I have a smaller number of cats than ever.
Months ago, I gladly went and spent excessive amounts of lindens in the KittyCats store on potions, collars etc., just because I wanted you guys to earn as much as possible on all the enjoyment I had from my cats - and because I thought you did a fantastic job, listened well to your costumers etc. etc. (If you can, check it - it's true
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This specific issue - gender on boxes - has ruined that for me, though. There can be NO doubt in anyone's mind by now that this is wanted by a vast majority of the KittyCats costumers, and yet... nothing.
As my cattery got smaller - (Which is due to me being less in SL, not issue with cats or anything else as such), the pain of birthing useless kittens got worse - and it becomes difficult to maintain any "real" breeding unless you keep more cats than you really want. So, I have to ask myself, what will it be? More than I really want - or none?
I don't know yet, but this is the issue of my cattery right now - and genders on boxes could fix that. I do not want to give up on my beloved breeding lines, but when I open the 4 boxes I have been eagerly waiting to collect to have a chance to continue the breeding with girl + boy, and they ALL are the same gender, the frustration is just damn near unbearable... This was supposed to be the next generation of MY unique breeds, and now I have four kittens and nothing to breed them with! -And do I want to sell them?!? Doh? NO! MY unique breed, see? Me breeding for MY perfect cat...
KittyCats, I also appreciate you taking the time to prove that genders are of course near 50/50 - but to be honest, I never doubted that for a second. You're a great scripter, and if the script didn't throw out just about an equal amount of boys and girls, I would have been MUCH surprised. -But that is not the issue - not at all.
The issue is not knowing before we birth it - and as a consequence, too many useless kittens are born, and too many boxes are given up on - simply because hard-learned lessons makes us go "Uh-oh, best not birth more... they're probably wrong gender anyway....", and being the soft, silly people we are, can we send them straight to menagerie even though they're "wrong"? Nah, far from always - so, instead of opening the useful boxes that stand in the corner, we open the "wrong" ones, because we can't know any better - and the frustrations grow. Please just fix it?
