Kitty pricing!

[Ivy Norsk]

Thank you Nektuu. There are several good things about this post.

First off, the math. Math is always good. It grounds all discussions (and everybody understands that it's not personal; it's across the board.)

Let me go over two more points:

Fabao Wrote:Each product created there is a 'lifetime'. Thus, a cat built today, in three months, he is worthless.

This particular stance is built upon a very specific sort of cat breeding. It is a side-effect of the trait race. If the way a person plays the "game" OR "business" of KittyCatS is to always be digging for the newest traits right away, or buying them at market at their first auction appearance - this is a race. And it's a high-stakes race, laying out a lot of money for those hot new traits and also maintaining a super-recessive stable of cats for trait digging. I am not saying this is wrong. But it is a very particular approach. It is a natural consequence of this particular breeding method that the 3-month old cats are no longer useful - not useful within the same approach of keeping one's breeding stable super recessive. Ever onwards...

That kind of approach isn't relevant outside of the trait race. Yes, it helps to have a stable of fairly recessive cats for trait-digging with the LEs, but those can be much much older. In fact a cat with tiger traits (which don't appear in regular LEs) works quite well for pegging whether you've got something more or less recessive. And of course, if one is breeding dream kitties or "boutique" or "retro" kitties, the more traits the better and, as you said, old traits are very desirable.

One thing about Menagerie. SWEETEN UP THE MENAGERIE. New tigers, new something. And frankly, it would be better if Menagerie paid more than 20L or so. The markets have been running for years now with basically too many cats on the grid and it really would help to tighten up the supply.