Need Help About Kitty Pricing!!

[Ivy Norsk]

There are pricing tools out there. They generally work by looking at how many starter or Genesis traits there are, and also by taking account of new or newer traits. In that line up you have there, the one thing that Really Stands Out is that the 3rd kitty has Twilight eyes. That is a brand new eye and worth some money in and of itself no matter what other traits the kitty has. How much is it worth? Well... this is one reason why people attend auctions - to see what the going rate is for the new traits.

But very basics, you first need to be able to identify what is a gen trait. A totally Gen trait list looks like:
Fur: Genesis (these come in Diamond, Coco, Flame, Domino, and Smokey)
Eye: Gensis (various types)
Eye shape: Curious
Pupil size: Big
Shade: natural
Tail: Genesis
Ears: Genesis
Whiskers: Silver
Whisker shape: guitar

All of this information is available in various places, Tad's wiki, Saga's Traits Talk and other places which are linked here on the board.

Pricing has changed over the span of the KittyCats's existence. Some people used to say 100L per non-Gen trait, or even 50L per non-Gen trait. It's more fluid than that, and depends a lot on how long the trait has existed, is it rare either through newness or retirement, and how recessive is it. (Though very recessive cats are often so common now that they can sometimes be gotten more cheaply than cats with more unusual traits, because so many people are breeding them.)

But another crucial factor is something we can't see here (and why people post pedigrees) - all of the cats have not only shown traits, but hidden traits from their parents. A cat with good hiddens can be worth vastly more money than a cat with Exactly the Same shown traits, but with ... let us say... boring hiddens. Learning how to read a pedigree and figure out what the hiddens are (and sometimes you just can't know until you breed them) is a large part of the game that KittyCats is.

That's not a complete answer, I know. But it's a start.