I'm happy with my ranch...my Biobreeds are down to 100 animals and I think that's going to be my happy spot. Not playing for sales, mostly just playing for Biochips. I get a monthly allowance that pays for their food, so no pressure.
Life is busy and oddly, the nighttime auctions are getting harder and harder to attend. I may be cutting them out. Maybe just do the special panels via waiting list and come in on the off times to buy a good deal and pick on Lance and Gwen when my schedule allows it. I still kind of live at Camelot, so it's not like they can't find me.
Finished cutting down my KittyCats boxes. The lives are about to birth within next few days and when they do, specials will go to storage while many others will be sent away for points. Just keeping a pair of megas and my stubby tail seal pair going. I may shop for cheap megas to set out for resale at Camelot though.
When Imaginimals finish the beta testing I'll get a few of those too.
Lemurs, maybe a pair at some point. I've watched them since development and like them, but tend to be too expensive. Just may do a pair if I get a script testing area again.
Fish peddlers, maybe, depending on our land and what Smmu and I want to do with it. If I do, my fish will be betas, seahorses, and squids.
WK - love my cats. They're fantastic. But to be honest, due to new information I got last night, they're on probation with me right now. Waiting to see if they move forward with certain actions towards markets or if they wise up and not force the issue. If this issue is forced, it also forces me to cheap, cheap, cheap sale mine off.
And that would totally suck.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Breaking news!
The Biobreeds biochip coats are available this Thursday!
And they're 2500 biochips each, which is great for small breeders and solves an issue for me. I can keep playing the biochips the way I have been and don't have to rethink it all. Yay!
And they're 2500 biochips each, which is great for small breeders and solves an issue for me. I can keep playing the biochips the way I have been and don't have to rethink it all. Yay!
Traffic up and mesh comments...
It was nice to see a spike in traffic at the market today after my last post. It was a bit of a shock, and encouraging.
I may put my Sumatra tiger in tonight's auction. It's out for 10k, but I'll start it at a 5K bid. Partly because I'm lazy and this is something easy to decide on setting out on the panel. LOL Otherwise I'd have to go through things and decide on one I'd be willing to set out for open bid. Like I said, I'm lazy. LOL
I'm also watching WK comments on sim performance, landlords and mesh.
Yes, mesh messes up a sim, as do surrounds. Mesh is okay for clothing in SL, bad for building.
I know a few who would argue that but that's their choice. I just know that LL doesn't know what they think they know about making mesh work, obviously, and that SL uses too many connections to lump in another poorly ran element onto my computer. And a mesh sim knocks my fps down by 1/2 or more. A good computer, good viewer and great connection. Mesh in SL is not for me.
Landlords still want to blame breedable owners for sim performance. Truth is, the breedables are less of a drag on a sim than other objects. Your mesh, your tortured prims, your huds, your sexual beds and toys are what drags a sim down. Clubs are terrible on it. Too much landscaping brings a sim down. Often floors cause issues. I've worked with my landlord on a clean homestead testing different elements out...this isn't just my opinion talking.
There are breedables who are questionable though...Amarettos tested high on that sim we tested out. The Wild Wood kitties had registered high then too. I loved those and plan on getting into the Imaginimals after beta testing is done. Hoping they worked out how to make them easier on the sims.
There's a few others I'd like to test. If I ever get another sim to do the testing on through my landlord again.
I may put my Sumatra tiger in tonight's auction. It's out for 10k, but I'll start it at a 5K bid. Partly because I'm lazy and this is something easy to decide on setting out on the panel. LOL Otherwise I'd have to go through things and decide on one I'd be willing to set out for open bid. Like I said, I'm lazy. LOL
I'm also watching WK comments on sim performance, landlords and mesh.
Yes, mesh messes up a sim, as do surrounds. Mesh is okay for clothing in SL, bad for building.
I know a few who would argue that but that's their choice. I just know that LL doesn't know what they think they know about making mesh work, obviously, and that SL uses too many connections to lump in another poorly ran element onto my computer. And a mesh sim knocks my fps down by 1/2 or more. A good computer, good viewer and great connection. Mesh in SL is not for me.
Landlords still want to blame breedable owners for sim performance. Truth is, the breedables are less of a drag on a sim than other objects. Your mesh, your tortured prims, your huds, your sexual beds and toys are what drags a sim down. Clubs are terrible on it. Too much landscaping brings a sim down. Often floors cause issues. I've worked with my landlord on a clean homestead testing different elements out...this isn't just my opinion talking.
There are breedables who are questionable though...Amarettos tested high on that sim we tested out. The Wild Wood kitties had registered high then too. I loved those and plan on getting into the Imaginimals after beta testing is done. Hoping they worked out how to make them easier on the sims.
There's a few others I'd like to test. If I ever get another sim to do the testing on through my landlord again.
It's time...
I spammed 14 breedable groups and no visitors, so that tells me something. My classifieds are still active so that's not the issue and the stats on them show a lot lower interest. I think LL's actions have caused a lull in things until people figure out what they want and where and how to get it.
It's okay. I got things to take care of and a good clear out of my breedables is just what the doctor ordered.
I've turned in 1/2 of my kittycats boxes and will turn in most cats after this next round. Not sure what I'll do about the b-day kitty yet. Or the other special one I have. Don't think I'm willing to pay the 1500L perma-pet fee and try setting them out for sale. Maybe I'll just stuff them into storage with some other special editions I have to heal and sell later.
WK is promoting sactuary for the ones you can't sell for a 1k minimum. I applaud their efforts and hope they don't stop. I know I have some out for 500L and I know others have them out for less, including those I think of as "leaders", so there really isn't a way to stop the cheap selling of animals. You'd have to have every single seller sticking to the 1k minimum price and that just isn't going to happen. Everyday people don't have a secondary market mindset, and most just don't have the time to worry about it and adopt such a thing within a game. And not everyone can afford the high cost of a starter cat, so those offering them lower actually encourage more to come in to the breeding program and become future repeat buyers once the addiction settles in. Still, think the WK management encouraging the 1k minimum and the sanctuary is a very good thing and hope they keep it up.
Still no sales, and I don't plan on any for the day time - it's Tuesday restart day so most smart people stay away and just come in to make sure SL didn't eat any of their stuff after it's all over. I do lose at least 1/2 of my weekly spending allowance due to this period of no sales, but still will attend the patron auction and perhaps end up with a panel. Great breeders offering their crates today.
For my sales prices...they're down, a lot. My pablos and roys are down to 1k now, and I could cut them more but I'll wait. I heavened a bunch more and cut certain ones down as far as 150L. There's about 8 more I'll heaven if they don't sell at those cheap prices.
And while they listened and answered on the biochip coats, they did not on the excessive males on exotics. Still getting too many males. Think I'm up to 20 new coat exotics males. In my opinion, it's one of the things that contributed to the exotics short success time. The exotics are great, but if people can't get a decent ratio of male to female, it cuts herd progress short and people will move to something else more sexually reasonable. :-)
And no - still no word on how much the biochip coats will cost. I finished my crate supply heavening, keeping only the absolute best. Even heavened a bunch of Pepi crates. I'm about 230 crates from the place I need to be for the two I want...if they're the price I think they will be.
And the figures surprised me...I think 5 biochips is good. But. If the biochip coats are the price I think they will be, which is all right, then they really are going to cost me twice the amount other breedables haven coats costed me.
I'll still play for heaven points, but this also changes things for me. I may save money by buying future biochip coats from others after these first few versus breeding to accumulate enough biochips to get my own.
At any rate, my population is dwindling down to a low number...time has come to not breed as many...just not worth it. Will be down far enough in a week to eliminate one parcel if I like. Haven't decided yet. May keep it for building playing and for when starters come out and I want to bulk breed for a few weeks.
It's okay. I got things to take care of and a good clear out of my breedables is just what the doctor ordered.
I've turned in 1/2 of my kittycats boxes and will turn in most cats after this next round. Not sure what I'll do about the b-day kitty yet. Or the other special one I have. Don't think I'm willing to pay the 1500L perma-pet fee and try setting them out for sale. Maybe I'll just stuff them into storage with some other special editions I have to heal and sell later.
WK is promoting sactuary for the ones you can't sell for a 1k minimum. I applaud their efforts and hope they don't stop. I know I have some out for 500L and I know others have them out for less, including those I think of as "leaders", so there really isn't a way to stop the cheap selling of animals. You'd have to have every single seller sticking to the 1k minimum price and that just isn't going to happen. Everyday people don't have a secondary market mindset, and most just don't have the time to worry about it and adopt such a thing within a game. And not everyone can afford the high cost of a starter cat, so those offering them lower actually encourage more to come in to the breeding program and become future repeat buyers once the addiction settles in. Still, think the WK management encouraging the 1k minimum and the sanctuary is a very good thing and hope they keep it up.
Still no sales, and I don't plan on any for the day time - it's Tuesday restart day so most smart people stay away and just come in to make sure SL didn't eat any of their stuff after it's all over. I do lose at least 1/2 of my weekly spending allowance due to this period of no sales, but still will attend the patron auction and perhaps end up with a panel. Great breeders offering their crates today.
For my sales prices...they're down, a lot. My pablos and roys are down to 1k now, and I could cut them more but I'll wait. I heavened a bunch more and cut certain ones down as far as 150L. There's about 8 more I'll heaven if they don't sell at those cheap prices.
And while they listened and answered on the biochip coats, they did not on the excessive males on exotics. Still getting too many males. Think I'm up to 20 new coat exotics males. In my opinion, it's one of the things that contributed to the exotics short success time. The exotics are great, but if people can't get a decent ratio of male to female, it cuts herd progress short and people will move to something else more sexually reasonable. :-)
And no - still no word on how much the biochip coats will cost. I finished my crate supply heavening, keeping only the absolute best. Even heavened a bunch of Pepi crates. I'm about 230 crates from the place I need to be for the two I want...if they're the price I think they will be.
And the figures surprised me...I think 5 biochips is good. But. If the biochip coats are the price I think they will be, which is all right, then they really are going to cost me twice the amount other breedables haven coats costed me.
I'll still play for heaven points, but this also changes things for me. I may save money by buying future biochip coats from others after these first few versus breeding to accumulate enough biochips to get my own.
At any rate, my population is dwindling down to a low number...time has come to not breed as many...just not worth it. Will be down far enough in a week to eliminate one parcel if I like. Haven't decided yet. May keep it for building playing and for when starters come out and I want to bulk breed for a few weeks.
Sunday, August 25, 2013
hmm...what to do?
Well, I left for three days...over the weekend. Usually the weekend is my selling time, and this time nada...not one teensy-weensy sale. And it's been slow with it being the normal slow time, plus a spattering of breeders around me offering the same things for way-too-cheap prices...which really isn't doing them much good either.
We're still in that slow time. Plus, I think I see this as part of the expected result of LL's reaction to the new banking laws. Suspected some normal buyers would disappear due to not being able to buy lindens anymore.
So, now I'm not sure of what to hang on to and what to heaven away. It is something I'll have to think on. I do know I'll heaven some super fantastic crates, but may wait until they announce what the biochip edition will cost. If they've positioned the biochip price out of my range, I'll either use biochips for more starter packs or just cut my animals way down to a favorite group of 20-25 animals, which may take a little while. Still have epics to finish deseeding before they're done.
New breeders need some guidance on Biochips. I'm beat but need the distraction so I'll try to write something of it here. No, my dad is not doing well and I don't think my visit did much good. And when I arrived I found out my favored uncle is on life support, which will probably be pulled within a few days now. Plus more not so good, and just got home, so totally whipped.
Anywho...
In Biobreeds, you earn 5 biochips each time you send an animal or crate to heaven. (This basically deletes it from the database, which I support. Perhaps because I'm married to a programmer and understand this is a good thing. Getting rid of excess animals also helps the secondary market.)
Right now you can accumulate biochips to buy more packs of Laboradors, Dobermans, Beagles, Shiba Inus, German Shepherds, mixed dog packs, dog treats, the acorn tree to grow the treats yourself, pony packs, pit bulls, rottweilers, and huskies.
You just cannot use your biochips for chihuahuas, miniature pinschers, dalmations or exotics yet.
This is a great improvement since I last looked and it implies they've been working on updating things, which is so good.
To see what you can use your biochips for go to biobreeds.com and click on the catalogue. If you're signed in, you'll be able to see your current biochip balance in the upper right hand corner of the catalogue.
I have to rez the terminal inworld and click it to sign in to the website. Not sure if you can sign in directly to the website or not. I've never asked if I'm doing it wrong or anything, and just used the inworld terminal. You get the terminal from the free accessories pack.
How fast do biochips accumulate? Well, let's play a bit with that...
Let's say you breed 100 animals at a time. And let's say you put four females with each male so that each of your breeding groups consist of 5 animals.
100 animals divided by the five in your breeding groups equals 20 breeding groups.
A female is ready to give a crate every 8 days, and a male can keep up with four females (I can get a male to keep up with five sometimes even, but four is standard so we're sticking with that.) If I do the math based on that, each group of five creates about 46 crates per year. We'll round off to 45.
20 groups making 45 crates per year equals 900 crates. If you're playing for biochips and just the occasional crate sale, let's say you keep 50 of those for sales and yourself, leaving 850 crates you don't need. That gives you 4250 biochips for the year!
Amazing how quickly 5 biochips add up....
We're still in that slow time. Plus, I think I see this as part of the expected result of LL's reaction to the new banking laws. Suspected some normal buyers would disappear due to not being able to buy lindens anymore.
So, now I'm not sure of what to hang on to and what to heaven away. It is something I'll have to think on. I do know I'll heaven some super fantastic crates, but may wait until they announce what the biochip edition will cost. If they've positioned the biochip price out of my range, I'll either use biochips for more starter packs or just cut my animals way down to a favorite group of 20-25 animals, which may take a little while. Still have epics to finish deseeding before they're done.
New breeders need some guidance on Biochips. I'm beat but need the distraction so I'll try to write something of it here. No, my dad is not doing well and I don't think my visit did much good. And when I arrived I found out my favored uncle is on life support, which will probably be pulled within a few days now. Plus more not so good, and just got home, so totally whipped.
Anywho...
In Biobreeds, you earn 5 biochips each time you send an animal or crate to heaven. (This basically deletes it from the database, which I support. Perhaps because I'm married to a programmer and understand this is a good thing. Getting rid of excess animals also helps the secondary market.)
Right now you can accumulate biochips to buy more packs of Laboradors, Dobermans, Beagles, Shiba Inus, German Shepherds, mixed dog packs, dog treats, the acorn tree to grow the treats yourself, pony packs, pit bulls, rottweilers, and huskies.
You just cannot use your biochips for chihuahuas, miniature pinschers, dalmations or exotics yet.
This is a great improvement since I last looked and it implies they've been working on updating things, which is so good.
To see what you can use your biochips for go to biobreeds.com and click on the catalogue. If you're signed in, you'll be able to see your current biochip balance in the upper right hand corner of the catalogue.
I have to rez the terminal inworld and click it to sign in to the website. Not sure if you can sign in directly to the website or not. I've never asked if I'm doing it wrong or anything, and just used the inworld terminal. You get the terminal from the free accessories pack.
How fast do biochips accumulate? Well, let's play a bit with that...
Let's say you breed 100 animals at a time. And let's say you put four females with each male so that each of your breeding groups consist of 5 animals.
100 animals divided by the five in your breeding groups equals 20 breeding groups.
A female is ready to give a crate every 8 days, and a male can keep up with four females (I can get a male to keep up with five sometimes even, but four is standard so we're sticking with that.) If I do the math based on that, each group of five creates about 46 crates per year. We'll round off to 45.
20 groups making 45 crates per year equals 900 crates. If you're playing for biochips and just the occasional crate sale, let's say you keep 50 of those for sales and yourself, leaving 850 crates you don't need. That gives you 4250 biochips for the year!
Amazing how quickly 5 biochips add up....
Thursday, August 22, 2013
yay yay yay!
We're getting biochip coats soon! We're getting biochip coats soon!
Now...I just hope they cost no more than they were first thought to be or I'm not going to be ready for them. gasp! I hope...
(And if they are more, I'm ducking and hiding out. Away from the mob.)
Now...I just hope they cost no more than they were first thought to be or I'm not going to be ready for them. gasp! I hope...
(And if they are more, I'm ducking and hiding out. Away from the mob.)
Off for a few days....
While I visit family for the weekend, I hope I return to hear an update on when Biobreeds will think they'd have a biochip edition coat available.
I hope to see some good crates from my babies waiting for me.
I won't be taking a panel for Monday, unless I see at the last minute that I'm in house and they're short of sellers. Unlikely to be short of sellers there though, thankfully.
I do plan on being in for the Tuesday auctions...and hope to have something to update here with on Monday or Tuesday.
Things actually have been quiet. Traffic at market corrals and such are down by about 1/3 this last week. People are busy. And some are moving to other grids.
Yes, LL has been mucking about with SL again and messing it up for many. If it keeps going this way, I can see SL becoming a place for an elite group of breeders and action gamers, while others who just want to simply relax in a non-stressful environment go elsewhere.
We have three computers. SL can't run good on one, too old and low powered to handle the load. SL really does use a lot of connections, so people are subject to interest performance. The pc will probably be okay after we up the graphics card in it, but right now fps is down to 10. Newer laptop can handle SL at 30-50fps, depending on the location. Not too bad.
The other grids my family uses aren't as "advanced" and so not as "good" but in a lot of ways they're infinitely better. I don't have time to be everywhere, so I'm really sticking with Inwordz for right now, and just for short amounts of time while I build my product bases in my home. Once I get so far in that, I'll get a large piece of land for a store/publishing/art area. And hope that Amaretto gets close to beta testing soon so I can look forward to having horses there next year.
And hoping some lesser priced animations become available there for builders. I can find good ones in SL for 2-150L, but InWorldz builders seem to want an average of 8-900Izzies for the ones I use. Sorry, I build, I sell, but I don't make money off of them...not gonna pay that price. I understand you did the work, I understand you want to be paid, but that's where my understanding ends. This is a game and I treat it as a game. If I want to make money, I go to Real Life, where it's supposed to happen. And yes, you can, if you take the time to learn how to do it properly.
Not to discredit anyone who makes money within the game. I know breeders who do and I know builders and landlords who do too. I support these people (as long as they actually report their income and pay taxes on it like anyone else)...I just can't justify paying Real life money for stuff I won't see a return on. I have RL priorities that come first. Of course, I'll change my tune after winning the lottery. :-)
I hope to see some good crates from my babies waiting for me.
I won't be taking a panel for Monday, unless I see at the last minute that I'm in house and they're short of sellers. Unlikely to be short of sellers there though, thankfully.
I do plan on being in for the Tuesday auctions...and hope to have something to update here with on Monday or Tuesday.
Things actually have been quiet. Traffic at market corrals and such are down by about 1/3 this last week. People are busy. And some are moving to other grids.
Yes, LL has been mucking about with SL again and messing it up for many. If it keeps going this way, I can see SL becoming a place for an elite group of breeders and action gamers, while others who just want to simply relax in a non-stressful environment go elsewhere.
We have three computers. SL can't run good on one, too old and low powered to handle the load. SL really does use a lot of connections, so people are subject to interest performance. The pc will probably be okay after we up the graphics card in it, but right now fps is down to 10. Newer laptop can handle SL at 30-50fps, depending on the location. Not too bad.
The other grids my family uses aren't as "advanced" and so not as "good" but in a lot of ways they're infinitely better. I don't have time to be everywhere, so I'm really sticking with Inwordz for right now, and just for short amounts of time while I build my product bases in my home. Once I get so far in that, I'll get a large piece of land for a store/publishing/art area. And hope that Amaretto gets close to beta testing soon so I can look forward to having horses there next year.
And hoping some lesser priced animations become available there for builders. I can find good ones in SL for 2-150L, but InWorldz builders seem to want an average of 8-900Izzies for the ones I use. Sorry, I build, I sell, but I don't make money off of them...not gonna pay that price. I understand you did the work, I understand you want to be paid, but that's where my understanding ends. This is a game and I treat it as a game. If I want to make money, I go to Real Life, where it's supposed to happen. And yes, you can, if you take the time to learn how to do it properly.
Not to discredit anyone who makes money within the game. I know breeders who do and I know builders and landlords who do too. I support these people (as long as they actually report their income and pay taxes on it like anyone else)...I just can't justify paying Real life money for stuff I won't see a return on. I have RL priorities that come first. Of course, I'll change my tune after winning the lottery. :-)
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
New Toys!
The big kitties are loving their new toys...
First up, Smmubert's Dunah wanting the parrot
After that doesn't work, Ramses decides to check out the raft...
My tiger, Roscoe, decides it's his turn, not sure why he can't get through the cage to pet the birdy...
Sunday, August 18, 2013
My prices...
I was going to post my pricing guide and I will here in this post still, but my prices may change in reality. Or would that be virtually? LOL
My dad's in a bad way and just went into the hospital last night. My business may not get the attention it normally gets from me for a bit. Hence, I'm debating going to market and slashing the prices. If I do, what you see may be different than what I list here. But this is my guide for me, what the animals are worth to me. I've picked up most of my exotics to make way for the fifty GS I want to work on, so I'm not in a rush to sell.
If I slash prices for awhile, it will be for 30-50%. Keep watch if you think you may want anything. I have notecard givers at my stalls and sales yard to get you to my locations. They're updated...except for The Farm giver....need to remember to update that one next time I'm inworld.
Anywho....
Base Prices Exotics:
New bred out coats -
Stippled 500L (less interest in these)
Golden/Fire Engine Tigers 1000L
Drenched Cheetah - 2000-2500L
Andy Turtles - 800L
Roy and Pablo Turtles - 2000L
Illusion Giraffe - 1500L
Oceania Giraffe - 2000L
Malachite - 800L
Leopard Tawny - 1000L
Leopard Thunder/Xanthos - 2000L
Leopard Alizarin - 1000L
Lavender/Puce Tigers - 2000L
Henri/Salvador Turtles - 4000L (don't have yet and probably wouldn't sell for awhile)
These prices fluctuate based on breeding, traits, and sex. For some, I'm deducting a little if they're male. These prices will change weekly based on how I like them, their availability, and my ability to produce and keep the stand supplied with them.
But do shop around. Some people are very impatient. They set an animal out at good price, leave it for a day, it doesn't sell and they drop the price. It's the same with all breedables...hardly anyone wants to protect the sales integrity of the animals by letting them sit at the prices they should be. And it seems they don't think about the fact that not everyone visits the same spot everyday...or even every week.
Point is...If my prices are too high. That's okay. You're not going to hurt my feelings by shopping around for a better deal. Pfft...don't be surprised when you see me reselling something I bought cheap and putting a more deserving price on it. I do that a lot when my supplies dwindle.
I have epics out for sale and that's based on what they're worth to me to keep instead.
I have a dozen spring zeony females and 11 4th July zeony males. Currently deseeding them. Base price is 1000L. How this goes up and down depends on how things go between now and the time I'm done with them.
Other epic prices are based on whether I think I'll want to do something with them in the future or not. Most start with a base price of 3K because that's reasonable for an epic that's no longer available. In some cases that's cheap.
Not getting into the dogs...as many long time breeders will tell you, it's a matter of personal taste. We price depending on type, the line it's from, traits, and our own personal opinion of what it's worth.
I can tell you I only let certain crate "live" now. I tried to jump on the sell cheap bandwagon, but it didn't feel right and I still cringe when I see crates of any type out for 50L...anything for less than 100L actually. If I didn't value personal freedom and rights so much, I'd be crying for not allowing anything to be sold under 100L. All I can say is I'll stick an occasional 100L crate out there for a cheapie, but you won't see anything less from me anylonger.
I can say that the base price I start with in my mind is 300L a crate, then worth goes up or down from there based on lineage, type, traits, sex, availability, demand, personal taste, etc.
WK 500L is my minimum for a level one. Think any less is...well, won't get into that. I'll send anything to sanctuary that won't sell for that. Pretty sure that special sanctuary coat will be worth it in the end.
As a note: I commend WK's efforts at getting people to set good prices. They really did try to teach 1k minimum to people. Human nature being as it is though, didn't stick.
My dad's in a bad way and just went into the hospital last night. My business may not get the attention it normally gets from me for a bit. Hence, I'm debating going to market and slashing the prices. If I do, what you see may be different than what I list here. But this is my guide for me, what the animals are worth to me. I've picked up most of my exotics to make way for the fifty GS I want to work on, so I'm not in a rush to sell.
If I slash prices for awhile, it will be for 30-50%. Keep watch if you think you may want anything. I have notecard givers at my stalls and sales yard to get you to my locations. They're updated...except for The Farm giver....need to remember to update that one next time I'm inworld.
Anywho....
Base Prices Exotics:
New bred out coats -
Stippled 500L (less interest in these)
Golden/Fire Engine Tigers 1000L
Drenched Cheetah - 2000-2500L
Andy Turtles - 800L
Roy and Pablo Turtles - 2000L
Illusion Giraffe - 1500L
Oceania Giraffe - 2000L
Malachite - 800L
Leopard Tawny - 1000L
Leopard Thunder/Xanthos - 2000L
Leopard Alizarin - 1000L
Lavender/Puce Tigers - 2000L
Henri/Salvador Turtles - 4000L (don't have yet and probably wouldn't sell for awhile)
These prices fluctuate based on breeding, traits, and sex. For some, I'm deducting a little if they're male. These prices will change weekly based on how I like them, their availability, and my ability to produce and keep the stand supplied with them.
But do shop around. Some people are very impatient. They set an animal out at good price, leave it for a day, it doesn't sell and they drop the price. It's the same with all breedables...hardly anyone wants to protect the sales integrity of the animals by letting them sit at the prices they should be. And it seems they don't think about the fact that not everyone visits the same spot everyday...or even every week.
Point is...If my prices are too high. That's okay. You're not going to hurt my feelings by shopping around for a better deal. Pfft...don't be surprised when you see me reselling something I bought cheap and putting a more deserving price on it. I do that a lot when my supplies dwindle.
I have epics out for sale and that's based on what they're worth to me to keep instead.
I have a dozen spring zeony females and 11 4th July zeony males. Currently deseeding them. Base price is 1000L. How this goes up and down depends on how things go between now and the time I'm done with them.
Other epic prices are based on whether I think I'll want to do something with them in the future or not. Most start with a base price of 3K because that's reasonable for an epic that's no longer available. In some cases that's cheap.
Not getting into the dogs...as many long time breeders will tell you, it's a matter of personal taste. We price depending on type, the line it's from, traits, and our own personal opinion of what it's worth.
I can tell you I only let certain crate "live" now. I tried to jump on the sell cheap bandwagon, but it didn't feel right and I still cringe when I see crates of any type out for 50L...anything for less than 100L actually. If I didn't value personal freedom and rights so much, I'd be crying for not allowing anything to be sold under 100L. All I can say is I'll stick an occasional 100L crate out there for a cheapie, but you won't see anything less from me anylonger.
I can say that the base price I start with in my mind is 300L a crate, then worth goes up or down from there based on lineage, type, traits, sex, availability, demand, personal taste, etc.
WK 500L is my minimum for a level one. Think any less is...well, won't get into that. I'll send anything to sanctuary that won't sell for that. Pretty sure that special sanctuary coat will be worth it in the end.
As a note: I commend WK's efforts at getting people to set good prices. They really did try to teach 1k minimum to people. Human nature being as it is though, didn't stick.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Birthing Day...
I find it interesting how the Dad Wild Kingdom cats come and park themselves on top of the Moms when she's getting ready to give birth.
You'd think Mom wouldn't like that. LOL
You'd think Mom wouldn't like that. LOL
InWorldz...
Smmu and I became homeless in Inworldz this week when the not-so-professional landlord up and left without a word to their renters. Gutless idiots. All they had to do was send out warnings to let us know it was coming. At least then we could have had our stuff picked up. The system still hasn't returned any of mine.
Not sure what to think of InWorldz forum management. Either there's a glitch or they're not monitoring it as they should be. My post still hasn't been paid attention to.
But I did find a nice cottage to rent with a nice landlord, who's also a mentor. Got some of the furniture in and let my llama out in the yard. Plenty of prim space to use to make one item at a time and store it away for the future store.
I also talked to the owner of Calia Estates about the situation. Nice individual and she's proven she's trustworthy to me.
Now I need to set up my goals for InWorldz. New store and the Publishing and Art location will happen. Going to rent from Calia Estates. Just have to figure out prim needs, actions I need the land set up to handle, and get enough products built for the store to set it up quickly.
Giving myself two months to get everything I need planned and built. Hoping that's enough time..as I do this during my play time at the end of the day only, and we have a lot of days over the next few months taken out for family and conventions.
In Second Life news...
Preparing my exotic crew to be picked up and stored away in a week. Sales have slowed so it's the perfect time to break out all those German Shepherds I want to run. Well, not all. Thought I had about 50, turns out I have about 100. LOL
Think I'll sort and choose my favorite 50 to run and maybe offer the rest for sale.
May keep the turtle exotics running though too - they're totally fun to breed.
Wild Kingdom is at 20 breeders...will choose 2-4 to sanctuary at that time. Still trying to get that routine of sending 2 off every two weeks to make room for new ones started. Pretty sure I'll end up with their special edition with my sanctuary points.
Still wish Biobreeds would bring theirs out. Just keep heavening and hoping....
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
The grids...
I have my Second Life presence and budget worked out. My own land partnered with rentals through reliable landlords, and breedables sales each week keep me going well.
Seems I have to think on InWorldz. Our landlord up and left with no notice. And evidently the system doesn't return your stuff automatically. So the new store we were working on and the products I made to store there, etc. are gone.
Yeah, I know you're to back everything up with your own copies in inventory. I just wasn't to that point yet. They were still in production phase. Nothing too complicated that can't be quickly redone...just a real pain.
And really rude and unprofessional of this so-called trustworthy landlord. The website says they left SL due to fraudulent renters. Their actions tell me it wasn't their renters who were the frauds.
InWorldz is still new and growing, and I don't feel safe trusting another landlord to this degree. I prefer to buy my own place now. Do wish we could do partial lands, like in SL, but I understand why we cannot.
So now I have to figure out when I'd want to get my own sim...and make sure I want to actually commit to that responsibility. It would mean stepping back into the role of landlord myself. Something I started with when I first came to SL, but really didn't find that it suited me.
Think I'll step back and take some time to think on it. In the meantime I may look for a house or some such to rent so I can have a home setting in a private spot again.
Exotics gave me two bred out coat females today. Something with a chance at selling. I'm feeling rich now..my stand is at 3 female bred out coat exotic crates now. LOL
Got a level three tiger today too. Not a hot seller one, but may sell. I may think on using it for tonight's auction. Can't remember if this is BB time for me or WK time. Must check on that.
Camber and Nik's patron auction is today. Lots of goodies. I may end up with a panel or two. But if I don't I'm really happy. It means others were interested and challenged me for it. I'm not much of a panel fighter, unless the item cannot sell that low in my book or if I really need it. I'm pretty set on animals, so don't really need it. Dying to birth all the GS crates I have reserved tied into Nik's lines for future breeding - and to bring the lives back out. I'm enjoying breeding the GS, and they do sell once in awhile.
Seems I have to think on InWorldz. Our landlord up and left with no notice. And evidently the system doesn't return your stuff automatically. So the new store we were working on and the products I made to store there, etc. are gone.
Yeah, I know you're to back everything up with your own copies in inventory. I just wasn't to that point yet. They were still in production phase. Nothing too complicated that can't be quickly redone...just a real pain.
And really rude and unprofessional of this so-called trustworthy landlord. The website says they left SL due to fraudulent renters. Their actions tell me it wasn't their renters who were the frauds.
InWorldz is still new and growing, and I don't feel safe trusting another landlord to this degree. I prefer to buy my own place now. Do wish we could do partial lands, like in SL, but I understand why we cannot.
So now I have to figure out when I'd want to get my own sim...and make sure I want to actually commit to that responsibility. It would mean stepping back into the role of landlord myself. Something I started with when I first came to SL, but really didn't find that it suited me.
Think I'll step back and take some time to think on it. In the meantime I may look for a house or some such to rent so I can have a home setting in a private spot again.
Exotics gave me two bred out coat females today. Something with a chance at selling. I'm feeling rich now..my stand is at 3 female bred out coat exotic crates now. LOL
Got a level three tiger today too. Not a hot seller one, but may sell. I may think on using it for tonight's auction. Can't remember if this is BB time for me or WK time. Must check on that.
Camber and Nik's patron auction is today. Lots of goodies. I may end up with a panel or two. But if I don't I'm really happy. It means others were interested and challenged me for it. I'm not much of a panel fighter, unless the item cannot sell that low in my book or if I really need it. I'm pretty set on animals, so don't really need it. Dying to birth all the GS crates I have reserved tied into Nik's lines for future breeding - and to bring the lives back out. I'm enjoying breeding the GS, and they do sell once in awhile.
Monday, August 12, 2013
Riven and Some days....
I've been playing Riven on my iphone over again while studying different walkthroughs. Trouble with me is I'm a player who does a lot of moving back and forth because I end up skipping things I should have done before moving to the next spot. Now I'm playing, studying, replaying to set the proper order in my mind. That way when a friend asks for help I don't give them an answer that makes them backtrack so much.
Check out Cyan.com for their games. Their 20th Anniversary is coming up next month. 20 years and they still have many, many fans. Plus getting new fans all the time. This company must be pretty good, eh? LOL
The some days refers to my breedables thoughts. Most days I have positive thoughts and I ignore the market of breedables, or rather how the prices on the market place aren't respected. Then, some days I let the prices people put out there sink in and make me feel like chucking it all in.
I've been as guilty as the next person on the pricing game. I also have no shyness about picking up a super good deal on an animal. After all it's their product and their choice on what to sell it for, right? Yes. And that is the same consideration I want.
Still, it's hard to not look at what others are selling for and get discouraged every once in awhile. Makes it difficult to put a good price on your own.
Which is why I've begun the routine I did. If it's not exceptional or something I want to use on next gen breeding, it gets heavened.
I'm not doing multiple random bundlers anymore. In the old days people used to like playing with those, but not anymore so I take the biochips for them instead.
Right now, I'm still keeping all new coats from exotics to have out for sale. Sales are slow on those - people have done their experimenting and have decided on their specialties. Plus, many have the breeders they want and are in process of breeding them down.
Don't have a definite guide for pricing I use, but basically I offer the new coat exotics at what should be a discount at 1k male 1500 female. If there's a lot of a certain coat, those I've knocked down to 500L. Used to be difficult to keep the spot full. Now I'm on one crate overflow. Pretty good indicator that people have what they need.
Except for the super rare coats...they'll still be 2k basic price for a little bit longer.
Once I get the deseeding down to where I need it, I'm cutting back on numbers. Just working the exotics to deseed basically now. Maybe let the best go to The Farm auctions. I'd like to use the room to pick on the german shepherd breeding. I've made some good sets that would be fun to play with from Triple Sec's line.
On the rest of BB, I don't know what to say on pricing. It's really a matter of personal opinion/worth/taste/goals, etc.
Going to auctions is the best way to see what people are paying for what. When setting out for direct sale, if it's something I'll take to auction, I'll set it at the full price. When I take those to auction, I tend to make the start bid lower than full price. Sometimes I'll get crazy and go open bid. Just remember, you have to be prepared to get your opening bid and no more if only one person is interested at the time. People's interest rotate a lot. One week they want one thing, another week they want something else all together.
If it's not something I'll be taking to auction, I usually set it out at direct sale for a small discount. Unless I think I may want to use it later on, then I'll put full price on it. 3/4 of the time, the item sells before I'm ready for it too.
No matter what, I can't see setting out anything for less than 100L. If it's not worth 100L it's heavened or stored for special uses.
Anything worth more than 100L but I'm not willing to tie up sales space waiting for it to sell, I'll just heaven it or donate it to the giveaways. This happens a lot to me. I'm deseeding epics and breeding good stuff only.
Heavening the "good" stuff is difficult. Really hard. But I've worked on forcing myself to do it and almost feel good about it now...almost. LOL The knowledge that heavening rather than selling too low helps the data base and the secondary market out helps me.
BTW...I've decided not to sell for less than 100L on BB anymore. And my prices are as above - what the animal is worth minus a small discount. Wish that Biochip coat would come out to help with this effort.
KittyCats I'm tougher on. I take the 50 Kitty dollars for the majority of the boxes I get.
Wild Kingdom I'm starting the same. Even tougher. Got a routine of sanctuary a few and buying replacements started now...still perfecting that. Sacks will start on a sanctuary routine soon too, since I'm getting enough. Exceptions are the RFL OS sacks. Hanging on to those as those may be wanted by buyers later on.
Check out Cyan.com for their games. Their 20th Anniversary is coming up next month. 20 years and they still have many, many fans. Plus getting new fans all the time. This company must be pretty good, eh? LOL
The some days refers to my breedables thoughts. Most days I have positive thoughts and I ignore the market of breedables, or rather how the prices on the market place aren't respected. Then, some days I let the prices people put out there sink in and make me feel like chucking it all in.
I've been as guilty as the next person on the pricing game. I also have no shyness about picking up a super good deal on an animal. After all it's their product and their choice on what to sell it for, right? Yes. And that is the same consideration I want.
Still, it's hard to not look at what others are selling for and get discouraged every once in awhile. Makes it difficult to put a good price on your own.
Which is why I've begun the routine I did. If it's not exceptional or something I want to use on next gen breeding, it gets heavened.
I'm not doing multiple random bundlers anymore. In the old days people used to like playing with those, but not anymore so I take the biochips for them instead.
Right now, I'm still keeping all new coats from exotics to have out for sale. Sales are slow on those - people have done their experimenting and have decided on their specialties. Plus, many have the breeders they want and are in process of breeding them down.
Don't have a definite guide for pricing I use, but basically I offer the new coat exotics at what should be a discount at 1k male 1500 female. If there's a lot of a certain coat, those I've knocked down to 500L. Used to be difficult to keep the spot full. Now I'm on one crate overflow. Pretty good indicator that people have what they need.
Except for the super rare coats...they'll still be 2k basic price for a little bit longer.
Once I get the deseeding down to where I need it, I'm cutting back on numbers. Just working the exotics to deseed basically now. Maybe let the best go to The Farm auctions. I'd like to use the room to pick on the german shepherd breeding. I've made some good sets that would be fun to play with from Triple Sec's line.
On the rest of BB, I don't know what to say on pricing. It's really a matter of personal opinion/worth/taste/goals, etc.
Going to auctions is the best way to see what people are paying for what. When setting out for direct sale, if it's something I'll take to auction, I'll set it at the full price. When I take those to auction, I tend to make the start bid lower than full price. Sometimes I'll get crazy and go open bid. Just remember, you have to be prepared to get your opening bid and no more if only one person is interested at the time. People's interest rotate a lot. One week they want one thing, another week they want something else all together.
If it's not something I'll be taking to auction, I usually set it out at direct sale for a small discount. Unless I think I may want to use it later on, then I'll put full price on it. 3/4 of the time, the item sells before I'm ready for it too.
No matter what, I can't see setting out anything for less than 100L. If it's not worth 100L it's heavened or stored for special uses.
Anything worth more than 100L but I'm not willing to tie up sales space waiting for it to sell, I'll just heaven it or donate it to the giveaways. This happens a lot to me. I'm deseeding epics and breeding good stuff only.
Heavening the "good" stuff is difficult. Really hard. But I've worked on forcing myself to do it and almost feel good about it now...almost. LOL The knowledge that heavening rather than selling too low helps the data base and the secondary market out helps me.
BTW...I've decided not to sell for less than 100L on BB anymore. And my prices are as above - what the animal is worth minus a small discount. Wish that Biochip coat would come out to help with this effort.
KittyCats I'm tougher on. I take the 50 Kitty dollars for the majority of the boxes I get.
Wild Kingdom I'm starting the same. Even tougher. Got a routine of sanctuary a few and buying replacements started now...still perfecting that. Sacks will start on a sanctuary routine soon too, since I'm getting enough. Exceptions are the RFL OS sacks. Hanging on to those as those may be wanted by buyers later on.
Friday, August 9, 2013
It's another runt ...
My male tiger runt fathered a female runt today. I know she's probably an easy sale, but I've decided to keep her. I birthed her and she will go back to her dad once grown.
The other couple this week gave lvl 1 and 2 twins. Male and Female; mom is a RFL tiger. So these two are set aside for using later on. At some point, direct RFL offspring will be rare. They'll be worth birthing and using then I think.
Tonight's auction will feature a Curry coat cougar sack from me.
Wow. Biobreeds this week. My exotics were naughty yesterday. Had about 7 crates in last 24 hours and...nothing...
2 golden tigers made a henna. Golden tiger made an apple butter. Two Alizarins made a zeony. Plus at least 4 more 5 biochip crates. LOL crazy.
On looking at my epics at market - they're already so reasonably low. Not lowering them anymore. I do have a ton of spring epic and 4th july epics out at 1k each. They won't sell for that, I'm sure, but I'm leaving them out while they deseed. Most I bought for 500L each so my price isn't unreasonable and I do have a goal in mind for them.
The other couple this week gave lvl 1 and 2 twins. Male and Female; mom is a RFL tiger. So these two are set aside for using later on. At some point, direct RFL offspring will be rare. They'll be worth birthing and using then I think.
Tonight's auction will feature a Curry coat cougar sack from me.
Wow. Biobreeds this week. My exotics were naughty yesterday. Had about 7 crates in last 24 hours and...nothing...
2 golden tigers made a henna. Golden tiger made an apple butter. Two Alizarins made a zeony. Plus at least 4 more 5 biochip crates. LOL crazy.
On looking at my epics at market - they're already so reasonably low. Not lowering them anymore. I do have a ton of spring epic and 4th july epics out at 1k each. They won't sell for that, I'm sure, but I'm leaving them out while they deseed. Most I bought for 500L each so my price isn't unreasonable and I do have a goal in mind for them.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Time to complain LOL
I seem to have painted Biobreeds as a breedable creator that can do no wrong. Maybe it's time to fix that. They need to hear complaints so they can assess what people think and make their business decisions objectively, so let's see if I can come up with something....
I believe in renaming your crates and animals, and it frustrates me to no end to go shopping or check out an animal at auction with the generic name, or filled with generic names in a ped. Names are important, not only to BB customer service in case anything needs done by them, but also to give potential buyers of the animal or offsprings of that animal an impression of the animal's worth.
When I name my animals I follow Issis's and some other breeders' rule of starting it with my initials. My main breeders get an actual name. My sales animals and crates get names that tell the potential buyer what it is, or that tell me what it is when it's in my inventory. Saving me from having to rez it first to find out.
Complaint to Biobreeds bosses is that the space available for our names needs to be longer! Just saying, I've found this a huge frustration at times, even spouted a few choice words. I do believe the creators mean for their product to relax people, and I know I'm not the only one finding this an issue. In my opinion, this needs to be addressed and corrected.
Make the number of spaces allowed for the name longer, please. And if you can allow us to have a second line for a sub-name, that would be super great too.
What happened to this? The space was there in the catalogue, said 5000 chips needed. Now it doesn't show up on my end.
I'm sorry...but I play for special editions or what I can turn in my excess breedables for in the game. I'm not interested in a limited availability of starters or treats. And I've been working to build up chips for a special edition...think I can get two actually, IF they come out.
Amaretto gave us special editions, pet food, or boosters to turn points in for. (Thought it was stingy of them to not offer salt or regular food too.)
KittyCats I love because you can build them up for specials if you breed a lot. Smaller breeders can use their points for anything in the store, including food. Love, love, love that. And it's 50 points each cat or box...adds up so fast.
Fish can be converted to food.
WK has specials coming out and there's products in Sanctuary.
Found Meeroos system pretty useless for me.
Biobreeds is 5 points each animal or crate. Doesn't sound like much, but when you start using it you'll be surprised at how fast that builds up. And a special edition is only 1000 crates or animals. If you're a breeder of my size, getting that in a year is easy, and it's reasonable.
But we need the release. It's been a long time since BB came out. And it would help encourage more people to heaven for biochips. That can only help those of us supporting Biobreeds by trying to keep the secondary market active.
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I heavened some excess this morning. 10 more bodies are set to heaven if they don't sell within 60 hours.
Dealing with some extra expenses so really thinking about lowering the prices on my 0 seeded epics. Maybe get enough for a few more weeks' rent on my lands. Haven't done it yet...still thinking.
But the ranch is doing well and we're happy.
Names:
I believe in renaming your crates and animals, and it frustrates me to no end to go shopping or check out an animal at auction with the generic name, or filled with generic names in a ped. Names are important, not only to BB customer service in case anything needs done by them, but also to give potential buyers of the animal or offsprings of that animal an impression of the animal's worth.
When I name my animals I follow Issis's and some other breeders' rule of starting it with my initials. My main breeders get an actual name. My sales animals and crates get names that tell the potential buyer what it is, or that tell me what it is when it's in my inventory. Saving me from having to rez it first to find out.
Complaint to Biobreeds bosses is that the space available for our names needs to be longer! Just saying, I've found this a huge frustration at times, even spouted a few choice words. I do believe the creators mean for their product to relax people, and I know I'm not the only one finding this an issue. In my opinion, this needs to be addressed and corrected.
Make the number of spaces allowed for the name longer, please. And if you can allow us to have a second line for a sub-name, that would be super great too.
Special Biochip Edition
What happened to this? The space was there in the catalogue, said 5000 chips needed. Now it doesn't show up on my end.
I'm sorry...but I play for special editions or what I can turn in my excess breedables for in the game. I'm not interested in a limited availability of starters or treats. And I've been working to build up chips for a special edition...think I can get two actually, IF they come out.
Amaretto gave us special editions, pet food, or boosters to turn points in for. (Thought it was stingy of them to not offer salt or regular food too.)
KittyCats I love because you can build them up for specials if you breed a lot. Smaller breeders can use their points for anything in the store, including food. Love, love, love that. And it's 50 points each cat or box...adds up so fast.
Fish can be converted to food.
WK has specials coming out and there's products in Sanctuary.
Found Meeroos system pretty useless for me.
Biobreeds is 5 points each animal or crate. Doesn't sound like much, but when you start using it you'll be surprised at how fast that builds up. And a special edition is only 1000 crates or animals. If you're a breeder of my size, getting that in a year is easy, and it's reasonable.
But we need the release. It's been a long time since BB came out. And it would help encourage more people to heaven for biochips. That can only help those of us supporting Biobreeds by trying to keep the secondary market active.
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I heavened some excess this morning. 10 more bodies are set to heaven if they don't sell within 60 hours.
Dealing with some extra expenses so really thinking about lowering the prices on my 0 seeded epics. Maybe get enough for a few more weeks' rent on my lands. Haven't done it yet...still thinking.
But the ranch is doing well and we're happy.
Monday, August 5, 2013
Super Sale time?
It may be time to super sale my non-epic exotics for a week and heaven what's left over. I really am trying to keep the high bred out coat prices up but no one else is. I'm not ready to bring my prices down...just for the auction panels. But may be time to cut my food costs down. And concentrate on getting those epics deseeded...and return to the 10T exotic breeding...eventually get that into the turtles. The tigers and turtles are going to be my exotic specialty area.
Will have to warn Smmubert to think on what she wants to do. I have pablos and andys and she has the roys. We just need the salvadors now. Not loving the henris myself.
I did pick up some new females for my German Shepherd founding stud for the new line I'm creating. Thought I'd start picking those up, but no way. Going to really work that line now. Got a 7T white ciel german shepherd yesterday. Male, so the founding stud needs to make me a good female to go with it now for the next generation breeding.
Had a great day with crates yesterday, so only reasonable today isn't so great. So far I've gotten 10 more biochips and a crate to donate to The Farm. LOL
kk back to icky Monday Reality tv...er...Real Life...
Will have to warn Smmubert to think on what she wants to do. I have pablos and andys and she has the roys. We just need the salvadors now. Not loving the henris myself.
I did pick up some new females for my German Shepherd founding stud for the new line I'm creating. Thought I'd start picking those up, but no way. Going to really work that line now. Got a 7T white ciel german shepherd yesterday. Male, so the founding stud needs to make me a good female to go with it now for the next generation breeding.
Had a great day with crates yesterday, so only reasonable today isn't so great. So far I've gotten 10 more biochips and a crate to donate to The Farm. LOL
kk back to icky Monday Reality tv...er...Real Life...
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Changes afoot for my Myst novels...
From the person behind Elpis:
My Myst stories thus far have been revolving around The Friends of the Fissure group from Myss Terrie's Bevin. (Bevins used to be called neighborhoods, until someone got too fussy about the word and powers that rule Myst decided to give in to this...no, I didn't like it. But anyway...)
But Myss Terrie has lost interest. The person behind Myss Terrie writes differently than I do anyway.
Branching off to explore my own group of Ages, taking my own created characters with me, seems to be the best course of action.
The how on how this will come to life is still to be determined, but let's start with Elpis's notes from today....
Elpis Diary
Year 2013, August 4th
The D'nipalooza celebration was today in the Cavern. I visited during my ranching break. It was great, reminded me of the days when I first answered Yeesha's call. Between Kirel and D'ni Aegura there were 100 people. Who knows how many more in the Ages I could not see the counts for or who were at their own Reltos.
I visited Shroomie. She's doing very well and she loved her treat of spores I took her.
LaCasa has been very slow for a long while. Each time I go visit, I find out that more people have moved on. Made their way to make their real home. Inanna and Okaasan have been gone on an Age hike or something for many months. I don't know about Imzadi and KoHama.
I checked the books in my old office. There wasn't anyone around to tell me who keeps the office now, but the books were kept up. It's obvious that someone has been paying the bills. Who and with what, is a mystery.
It really was quiet the last time I was there. Sophrosyne even had a note tacked to her door that she was out collecting specimens in Eder Gira.
I thought I'd go visit Thorne quickly, as I've missed him, but met up with Chancey in the bookroom. He said that Thorne and Issis would be far away from the link in area and to expect the trip to take me a few days by the time I hiked to them and back.
As I don't have that time to be away from work, I had to make do with giving Chancey my letter to Thorne when he returns back with their supplies.
God, I miss my man...
Instead I decided to travel the old route to the Cavern and went down to the Cleft and through the Great Tree.
While in Teledahn, I decided to explore an underwater region we had not checked out yet. In all the days I spied on Sharper, I never saw him or any of the rest of the team go near this spot. It's been on my mind for these last few years. Time to put this curiosity to rest.
I found a chamber underneathe the area.
Like a huge submarine built underneathe the factory above. I entered the hatch on top, allowed the water to drain and then entered into the chamber itself.
Large and round, it contained a two sectioned office. One side sported a desk with old papers and books, while the other side was a large library.
I was suprised to find a ton of linking books there.
I've set up base there and will start going through the papers I've found. Some look interesting. On my way back to the ranch, I stopped off at LaCasa and left a note for Thorne in the bookroom to contact me immediately when he gets a chance to come back. I missed catching Chancey before he finished gathering supplies and he had already returned, so I have no idea how long it will be before I hear from him.
New stuff....
The Oceania did throw his coat - that crate didn't stay at the stand long. lol Not complaining - paid two weeks rent on one of three parcels for the ranch. Smmu and I have our Turtle Roy crates out...if they don't sell, they'll be our special panel Tuesday night.
KittyCats did give me a Royal Duke coat. Really cool looking cat but I didn't birth it. It wasn't from the parents I wanted to keep breeding babies from. Have it out for 3600L at Camelot right now. Hope it sells, but if not, it will eventually.
Picked up new Silver Cougar named Silvia. She loves the pool. Pushed me into it once even, and now is insisting that she takes the teddy swimming and get it wet too.
Working on the cook book series today. The ranch/sales yard area got a facelift so this is where I'm working today....
KittyCats did give me a Royal Duke coat. Really cool looking cat but I didn't birth it. It wasn't from the parents I wanted to keep breeding babies from. Have it out for 3600L at Camelot right now. Hope it sells, but if not, it will eventually.
Picked up new Silver Cougar named Silvia. She loves the pool. Pushed me into it once even, and now is insisting that she takes the teddy swimming and get it wet too.
Working on the cook book series today. The ranch/sales yard area got a facelift so this is where I'm working today....
My opinion on Bots...
I'm in marketing in RL, so it seems appropriate I think of marketing my own animals. For those of you who prefer to just to breed and exchange within your breedable family group what I'm going to say is all rot to you. And that's okay. I mean no disrespect to anyone who hates bots, we're all entitled to our own opinion and it's good to be different. I love being with my own family group, but also feel the need to use a bot to help influence new members to come in.
Around me, some Biobreeds family expressed their "hatred" towards bots. I beg to say they're wrong...they don't hate bots. They hate the bots who are neglected and abuse the group charters, the ones who are set up with no respect whatsoever for the group subscribers.
Bots are used to send out an ad on a repeated basis throughout the day to the groups you designate. You can do this via notices or as a chat posting.
Bots, unfortunately, are necessary in some ways. New people come in all the time. They sign up for these ad groups. And they may not know much about the breedable you're advertising them.
Now, first I'll say...In My Opinion, sending a notice out in any group should be limited to once every 24 hours, 12 hours at the most. These are stored in the group profile and easy to find for anyone who wishes to check these out. No need to repeat these 20times a day. Nothing more frustrating than having to wade through multiple notices you already read to find the newest ones.
As for ads in group chat...most groups ask that you limit it to one per hour. I agree with this for two key reasons, due to the fact that the chat comes and goes according to the performance of SL, and from the logging in and out action of the group members.
First reason is that repetition is necessary. It's a known marketing fact that a person must see your ad X number of times before they act upon it. Partly because people are busy and most won't actually read the details, but skim it. It takes more for the information to actually register.
Second reason is that everyone works and plays on different schedules. And the ad maker also has his or her schedule to work around. A person cannot come in and send an ad every hour all the time manually. I've been known to do that when I'm working on a project that allows me such timed interruptions. But the majority of people do not have that luxury. Plus, one must sleep sometime. The responsible management of a bot makes up for this.
Now for results...I've tracked traffic results from my own efforts.
To be honest, running a classified does more than spamming groups. BUT this is subjective. I've found that I still have to compliment the classified with bot spamming. Because not all viewers are showing all classifieds. I've tested this with my own and with other's ads. Guessing it has something to do with individual 3rd party viewers' abilities to properly utilize SL's search feature.
It's important to list your land in search too. This is the spot you click for getting your land into search for a $30L a week fee, via the About Land menu, under Options tab. It's worth it.
The other key to marketing success is getting your presence out there to other breeders within the breedable community. Your repeat customers will be other breeders who need stock to supplement their own lines or replace ones they've let go. Work on your breeding methods, develop your strong lines, support your fellow breeders in encouragement and by buying when you're able to. They'll get to know you and learn about your breeding methods and develop trust in you that will make them think of you first when they have a need you can fill. Use integrity in your breeding...always work to breed up, not down.
Now...back to bots. Responsible use of bots is necessary. We need to let new people know of our breedables, and there's many stuck in a rude breedable community atmosphere afraid to step out of it. We need to let them know we're here, we're happy, and we're friendly and helpful.
Yes, you can do this manually...but realistically, you won't have the time to sit there and send them out throughout the whole day. And you need the repetition to get through the muck of numerous ads...to get yours seen and noticed, and remembered by those who see it in passing while they're dealing with their busy lives.
You don't have to use bots, of course. This post is for the use of bots, but it's not for saying you have to use them.
But we do have to encourage those who use bots to use them RESPONSIBLY.
It is why I man my own instead of using a service. Not against it, but just not sure of the degree of control with them by the seller. (I do hear there are good services though...this is not to discourage people from those. If you want to use one, please take the time to talk to others and get recommendations.)
Around me, some Biobreeds family expressed their "hatred" towards bots. I beg to say they're wrong...they don't hate bots. They hate the bots who are neglected and abuse the group charters, the ones who are set up with no respect whatsoever for the group subscribers.
Bots are used to send out an ad on a repeated basis throughout the day to the groups you designate. You can do this via notices or as a chat posting.
Bots, unfortunately, are necessary in some ways. New people come in all the time. They sign up for these ad groups. And they may not know much about the breedable you're advertising them.
Now, first I'll say...In My Opinion, sending a notice out in any group should be limited to once every 24 hours, 12 hours at the most. These are stored in the group profile and easy to find for anyone who wishes to check these out. No need to repeat these 20times a day. Nothing more frustrating than having to wade through multiple notices you already read to find the newest ones.
As for ads in group chat...most groups ask that you limit it to one per hour. I agree with this for two key reasons, due to the fact that the chat comes and goes according to the performance of SL, and from the logging in and out action of the group members.
First reason is that repetition is necessary. It's a known marketing fact that a person must see your ad X number of times before they act upon it. Partly because people are busy and most won't actually read the details, but skim it. It takes more for the information to actually register.
Second reason is that everyone works and plays on different schedules. And the ad maker also has his or her schedule to work around. A person cannot come in and send an ad every hour all the time manually. I've been known to do that when I'm working on a project that allows me such timed interruptions. But the majority of people do not have that luxury. Plus, one must sleep sometime. The responsible management of a bot makes up for this.
Now for results...I've tracked traffic results from my own efforts.
To be honest, running a classified does more than spamming groups. BUT this is subjective. I've found that I still have to compliment the classified with bot spamming. Because not all viewers are showing all classifieds. I've tested this with my own and with other's ads. Guessing it has something to do with individual 3rd party viewers' abilities to properly utilize SL's search feature.
It's important to list your land in search too. This is the spot you click for getting your land into search for a $30L a week fee, via the About Land menu, under Options tab. It's worth it.
The other key to marketing success is getting your presence out there to other breeders within the breedable community. Your repeat customers will be other breeders who need stock to supplement their own lines or replace ones they've let go. Work on your breeding methods, develop your strong lines, support your fellow breeders in encouragement and by buying when you're able to. They'll get to know you and learn about your breeding methods and develop trust in you that will make them think of you first when they have a need you can fill. Use integrity in your breeding...always work to breed up, not down.
Now...back to bots. Responsible use of bots is necessary. We need to let new people know of our breedables, and there's many stuck in a rude breedable community atmosphere afraid to step out of it. We need to let them know we're here, we're happy, and we're friendly and helpful.
Yes, you can do this manually...but realistically, you won't have the time to sit there and send them out throughout the whole day. And you need the repetition to get through the muck of numerous ads...to get yours seen and noticed, and remembered by those who see it in passing while they're dealing with their busy lives.
You don't have to use bots, of course. This post is for the use of bots, but it's not for saying you have to use them.
But we do have to encourage those who use bots to use them RESPONSIBLY.
It is why I man my own instead of using a service. Not against it, but just not sure of the degree of control with them by the seller. (I do hear there are good services though...this is not to discourage people from those. If you want to use one, please take the time to talk to others and get recommendations.)
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Mixed Breedable Update
KittyCats...it's the royal random births today. So far 1/2 are not royals. Few more hours and I'll have a few more boxes, and there will be another one in a few days.
The KittyCats are wonderful. Entertaining and great to have around. Sales are off, but it's the normal slow season so not surprised there. They've done a great job with the genetics for those who wish to "crack the code", but sadly, in the year or so I've been breeding them, I just haven't found the time to fully learn it. And my time is going to be even shorter now.
Hoping I get a royal still. Either to keep it or sell it, depending on parents and if it's a size I want to use.
No Biobreeds or WK for me for another day or so.
Smmu got two Roy Turtles yesterday though, male and female. Lucky girl.
The Patron Auction was very fun. Fast and furious and people seemed to love the special deals I set out for them. Many got good crates for just a little lindens. I got enough from the sales to toss Trem a bonus and stock up my foods. Think I have all fed up for a month now.
Add the WK sale in and the WK cats are fed for 2 months.
My goal is met. Sales take care of food, so all I have to worry on covering with excess or with my own allowance is rents.
My runt tiger didn't sell, shocking. He's now coupled with a frost tiger, and instead of sending the extra male away, I coupled that one with my RFL girl. Guess I'll use her breedings. Don't think I'll sell her anyway but keep her as a pet after she's done.
The KittyCats are wonderful. Entertaining and great to have around. Sales are off, but it's the normal slow season so not surprised there. They've done a great job with the genetics for those who wish to "crack the code", but sadly, in the year or so I've been breeding them, I just haven't found the time to fully learn it. And my time is going to be even shorter now.
Hoping I get a royal still. Either to keep it or sell it, depending on parents and if it's a size I want to use.
No Biobreeds or WK for me for another day or so.
Smmu got two Roy Turtles yesterday though, male and female. Lucky girl.
The Patron Auction was very fun. Fast and furious and people seemed to love the special deals I set out for them. Many got good crates for just a little lindens. I got enough from the sales to toss Trem a bonus and stock up my foods. Think I have all fed up for a month now.
Add the WK sale in and the WK cats are fed for 2 months.
My goal is met. Sales take care of food, so all I have to worry on covering with excess or with my own allowance is rents.
My runt tiger didn't sell, shocking. He's now coupled with a frost tiger, and instead of sending the extra male away, I coupled that one with my RFL girl. Guess I'll use her breedings. Don't think I'll sell her anyway but keep her as a pet after she's done.
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