(10-07-2014 07:06 PM)Kayleigh McMillan Wrote: KC could increase the price of food, milk and other vita's and ask monthly fees based on the amount of cats for use of the Online Cattery to make people breed less and as such reduce the cats that people breed and make them more picky in what is worthwhile enough to feed and as such to reach the market 
Hi Kay! I kinda chuckled when i read this...it is actually something similar to what many states/counties did in RL in response to pet overpopulation - Breeding Moratoriums and Requiring Licenses to breed pets. They charged for the licenses and it was not successful because ironically Commercial Breeders were exempt.
But you touched the common point in both rl and sl: what is breedworthy. It costs the same to feed excellent cats as it does to feed mediocre ones. The problem is that mediocrity does not sell well and the ones who made the boxes get upset because the cats are not selling. Buyers want a cat, often with the notion of "making back their money" and buy the "box'o'kitties" for a few lindens thinking they will make a few boxes but then are disgruntled because no one buys. Yes, there are too many selling events, but there are many factors in the problems we face now: Too many auctions, Too many cats on the grid, Too many disgruntled box makers dragging the same cats from auction to auction all week long as their frustration grows.
That old expression comes to mind (the one I named my store after): Build a Better Mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. So, make a better cat, one that stands out and the buyers will buy it. Just my two cents...
