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. :-)
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