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RE: KittyCatS! Market Improvement Suggestions
The problem with breedable pets, and this is NOT limited to KittyCatS, all breedables exhibit this, is that they are incomplete. You can talk all you want about adjusting offspring production rates, food costs and effectiveness, etc, and NO change you make will 'solve' the problem until the rest of the system is implemented.
What is missing?
What will actually solve the problem?
There is only one solution: disease and predation.
Why do rabbits reproduce like .. well .. rabbits?
What stops them from covering the world 2 meters deep?
Simple: they're so TASTY! Everybody eats them! Foxes, dogs, bobcats, you name it .. if it likes meat it LOVES bunny-meat.
And what happens when there are not enough predators? Sure, populations zoom upwards for a while. But, soon, you have a LOT of sick, starving rabbits. But that only lasts until the population sinks to a more sustainable level.
In KittyCats, at least, we DO have a 'predator' .. the MENAGERIE!
The problem is it is VOLUNTARY.
So, the simplest solution to the zooming populations (which leads to the annual complaints about markets failing) would be to make it MANDATORY.
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