(10-06-2014 11:30 PM)Shamu077 Resident Wrote: You should keep reading through Page 4. I offered a "radical" solution, and so far no one has commented on it. It would ruffle too many feathers to actually force the removal of the excess kittycat boxes on the market, even with a good incentive to do so, I guess. 
It's interesting to turn it over in my mind, but for many aspects of it I keep running up against "That wouldn't be much fun." One thing I like about KittyCatS (and much of Second Life, actually), is I can do it for pleasure and at my own pace.
Also, a couple of proposals there would prevent newcomers from exploring then putting together a few specialties. The breedables market thrives on specialties, not sameness.
It's a bit off-target in one aspect as well, and is apt have unintended consequences. I don't recall seeing anyone here complaining that retired traits were spoiling the market for new traits. The market that is interested in a retired trait is a separate pool from the market that is interested in new rares, which is itself a separate pool from the market that is interested in attractive cats. They sell among themselves. So although increasing rarity of boxes with retired traits might drive up prices of those particular cats, it would also radically shrink the market of people interested in those traits at all, because they'd either never seen them (so had no reason to care) or because they were concentrating their time-limited resources on the traits they cared about even more. That would have the effect of removing those people from that pool. Worst case: They end up in the new traits market, which would increase saturation there.
