SUGGESTION ABOUT PERMAPET! DISCOUNT OR PACK OR AUTOPARMAPETTING!

[nana Leleu]

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[Tad Carlucci]

This comes up almost every time the market, for whatever reason, is going through a protracted contraction.

My personal opinion is that food costs are a licensing fee to produce more copies and, once no more copies can be produced from a given source, no more fees should be charged. At the same time, it's in best interests to encourage people to breed (creating leveraged sales) rather than make pets (non-leveraged, basically one-time sales). To that end, I'd make the price for changing a 0-day old live into a pet exceed the costs of food for the full effective life-time of the cat. But, I cannot see why a 120+ day-old cat should have anything other than a very nominal fee.

There is, presently, so I'm told (never really looked) a two-tier system in place. That this subject comes up fairly regularly indicates, to me, that the discount at 120+ days is too small, and there should probably be additional tiers along the way.

Consider a "pet injector" and a "pet vial". To create a pet, one must have one, or more vials. This could be a web-only factor, or an in-world factor. The vials hold "doses". Take the age of the cat. If that age exceeds 120, use 120. Subtract that from 121. The result is the number of doses which must be in the vial. Inject the cat with that number of doses and it becomes a pet.

This could be a forward-stored factor, as well. Take a new cat, 0 days old. Inject it with 61 doses. When the cat becomes 60 days old, it becomes a pet automatically. This, however, would want to be Very Clearly Marked on every cat so subsequent purchasers are not surprised when it occurs. So, while possible, it's probably not a very good idea.

I would then price a "dose" somewhat higher than the maximum weekly food costs.

In addition, I would track the number of missed meals and factor those into the dosage required. This would effectively shut down the immense cost savings to be had by simply not feeding a cat for a few weeks.

[Rocky Balzibo]

*stands behind Dimps with a torch and a pitch fork ready to revolt vs the establishment*

[Stormrunner Laval]

As someone who initially was against the price of permapetting, I have to disagree on the cost.

A year and half of pet food for a cat cost the same amount as a 120 day permapet (and you would have to keep feeding them).

Before kittycats got the cattery you had to stick them in your inventory not to feed them, but you can still permapet them sick!

You still get updates and new features as well. I have some permapet cats well over 600 days old and they still get new updates! 1500L is only what 5 bucks USA? There are other permapets out there that cost well over that, and those with "autopet" are few and far between OR have very expensive food (I will not name names) and the animals no longer get updates once they are pets. Others you still have to feed "free" food and go though a lot of trouble to keep them from "starving" because though they don't run away they starve?

Would I feel bad if KC knocked the permapet down to 1000L each - no, but I'm not going to hold a grudge against it either as the benifits outweigh the cost.

[Dimpz Morane]

(11-07-2012 10:50 AM)Rocky Balzibo Wrote:  *stands behind Dimps with a torch and a pitch fork ready to revolt vs the establishment*

Rocky your just a Terrorist at heart!!

[Julia Merosi]

The reason why i take my Kitties to invetory or even send them to heaven is exactly the way too high price for the permapet. Especially for collectors and cats who ae simply too awesome to menage i woul so love to permapet. but ell first i feed hem and give them milk and then such a high price for permapet? autoperma pet would be awesome! but i would also invest some lindens for sure...but not the price atm...