Do wish Cyan had time to provide a couple of live players for Myst Online. Characters...lost D'ni, or members of the DRC who act like security guards or something for the game. Just "something". We can write and live out some story lines in the game ourselves, but there's not as many hanging out to interact with. Betting something from Cyan would help us get more to hang out there.
Lord knows it's less frustrating than Second Life....
But I understand. Small company = less resources. And I do like how they stayed small...seen way too many big companies affected by the economy changes crash.
Speaking of crashing...I have one statement. The Biobreeds market is NOT crashing. And that talk should cease. I heard someone say it, and that BS pisses me off. This is not Wall Street. And negative attitudes like that need to be left at the door...it only leads to more negative thoughts, and takes the fun out of breeding for all of us. It's a domino effect I've seen way too often. It sucks.
Now I remember why every summer I say I'm leaving the ranch for a month. This is the natural downtime for breedables that happens all the time. Usually about three cycles a year of ups and downs.
We must be reasonable when it comes to Biobreeds. There's 6k members in it...take away a third for those with alts for a decent average and you 4k members. Auctions get 20-30 regulars, with a few new ones rotating in and out. The markets get around 20-40 walking through per day, with about 1/2 of those regulars.
This means most are home breeders. They spend their time in Real Life or with their SL families, breed and then set some out or just heaven, store, and giveaway.
Many only breed so many animals at a time. It's just luck to have an animal set for sale in front of them at the time they wish to add or replace one that they're using. Once they do buy, it takes time to breed it out far enough before they're ready for the next one.
And many breed all the the types available, but may rotate them in and out of inventory...breeding Dobermans one month and Pugs the next month. So catching those on the right cycle is tricky sometimes also.
Problem with our auction "market" is that the majority of us are seasoned breeders hanging out. This means we've developed our lines, we're getting what we need from our own animals. We buy when we've breed our current stock down enough to inject some need stuff in without compromising what we're breeding for, or when something surpasses what we have now, or if we're buying to support another breeding friend.
(And the dang system kicks out way too many males. IMHO that should be the other way around, seeing as one male can service up to five females. I've started heavening non-spectacular males right away now. Just not worth it.)
(And...the age of the 10 trait pony is over. Now everyone has them, and it's been so long without something new that the appeal for them is gone. Twice now I couldn't sell at auction 10T Onyx's. The last ones sold because someone couldn't see them not selling. Now, on direct sale I keep about 10 crates for 10T ponies out because I get one sold for 800-1k depending on the coat still. Doesn't happen every day but does come in handy.)
I'm waiting for the next phase to start...usually people start stating why it's the creator's fault this is happening. "They're killing the secondary market with too much." (not true - they've stated plenty of times from the beginning they plan on bringing out a lot and I, for one, hope they stay on the original plan) "They're not promoting the auctions and markets." (not true - the team works hard hanging out with people in chat, compiling the secondary market list, and sponsoring the main auctions with free breedables...They're doing their job - putting together a good product and loving their customers.)
Key point here... The secondary market is important to a creator, but it is NOT the creator's responsibility. Their job is to put together a great product for a great price. And Biobreeds does this well.
Plus they listen to us...I love that, and I've always loved that. And I love seeing how other new breedable creators have also adopted this wonderful trait. Guess they used to be customers of the one who shall not be named also. Hehehe
Point is BB is for fun...it's set up for fun, not for making money. If it starts being about the money, I go back into hiding where it was fun. Let the downtimes be downtimes and don't fret the sales so much. In BB you can set your animals lower without getting hate mail, and I hope that continues. I know - it's frustrating to get a higher price when your neighbor charges less. Let people get to know you, develop your lines out, and people will trust you enough to spend the extra linden on you when they can. Just don't expect too much. Sometimes the sales will be up - when the spending cycle is up or when a breeder is ready to rotate out old stock. Sometimes a danged good animal won't sell worth nothing. Trust me, I've heavened some good stuff for not selling.
Learn to heaven. Know that the biochips you collect do mean something. Heavening is good. If you want to help the secondary market - heaven nearly all your crates. So many are boxing up and storing. Sure, some are for future breeding for goals you want to achieve and for planned rotation of crates in your shop. Keep those. But the others...heaven them.
Just don't heaven anything super unique. Maybe I'll do a post on what not to heaven soon.
I've been heavening a lot. I'm working on gaining enough for my second Biochips special epic when they release them...each one takes 5k of biochips and each animal or crate gives you 5 biochips. 1000 animals seems like a lot, but it's not really. Do the math. You'll be surprised at how many crates you get a year from your animals. I was. LOL
The Farm has finally found the courage to try Patron Auctions. I used to have one of these at the markets I hung out at about once a month. They were fun. I'm the first guinea pig for The Farm's patron auctions.
Mine is next Tuesday at 1pm SLT. I'm trying a mix in the hopes that there's something for everyone available there and the opening bids are terribly low. Panels 1-20 are dog crates. Chihuahuas, Dobermans, Pugs and Shibas. Each breed has 5 panels. The four star panels are going to be pony or exotic crates.
I hope this does well, but it may not. BB works differently than the other breedables I did this with and time may prove BB is more suitable for the swap meets than the patron auctions. Part of it depends on how creative the sellers get with what they put out and how they are with their start bids...
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