One thing I'd like to see is a "suggested value" function when selling pets, similar to what is already in place when we sell items at the broker's. Something that would take into account its "themeness" (so, it would have to trace back ancestry), fabled status, wheel pet status, number of genes/mutations and vis/non-vis, generated or not... So to bring some uniformity in the pricing, while still letting the seller determine their price. Maybe that could help to avoid having pets at 1g and pets at 10 gazillion gold...

Alternately, maybe a pricing reference of some sort... I don't know...

I'm not sure I like this idea. I don't like the thought of having to conform to some site standard. And anyone, God forbid, that priced their pets 1 gold over the 'suggested value' would be flooded with complaints about 'over pricing', which I'm not down with. I think users should have total and complete freedom to price their pets as they choose. If someone thinks that pet is worth it, they'll buy it and if they don't think it's worth it, they won't.

And who comes up with the 'suggested value' system if it were to be put into place? I don't want anyone, even the admins, to tell me what my pet 'should' be worth. I price my pair's offspring at a price that I personally would be willing to pay for them myself and I'd really like it to stay that way. ;)

I have to agree, I see pets way too over priced, I don't mind them being 1 gold because of poor value of colors in the pet, but pets that are so good shouldn't be 999,999,999 gold, that's ridiculous. Sorry I'm not trying to be mean, but that should change. The price should be a limit up to 5,000,000 gold for a pet.

999,999,999 gold

Seriously? XD I've never seen that...well, all I can say is that they best be made of pure, solid 24kt gold and platinum if people want that much. lol I can't imagine anyone actually expecting to get even a fraction of that amount. That's hilarious!


but pets that are so good

There isn't a single pet on this site that good. At least, I haven't seen it yet.

Just in response to the 999,999,999 gold thing, I've never known anyone to expect people to actually pay that much for a pet. It is, however, used as a marker in contests and such, to say 'pets priced at this mean you can pick it for a prize' like Willow is doing right now for her Disney games, to differentiate between wheel hatchlings people can pick for prizes and ones she wants to keep, without having to list an insane amount of hatchlings in the forum and without the risk of someone seeing it for sale and just buying it when it is meant to be a prize.

On the issue itself, I have no opinion either way, but I wanted to point that out. :3

Trust me I saw pets that are 999,999,999 gold. I forgot the account, but they were crazy.

If you'd read my post fully rather than just the first sentence, you would have read that I said there are pets priced that way because it's a way of marking them for other players to see easily instead of listing god knows how many pets on a forum post and taking hours to do it and then update it. It's not an actual price, just a marker, since there is currently no other way to mark them like that.

I see:3

Just in response to the 999,999,999 gold thing, I've never known anyone to expect people to actually pay that much for a pet. It is, however, used as a marker in contests and such, to say 'pets priced at this mean you can pick it for a prize' like Willow is doing right now for her Disney games, to differentiate between wheel hatchlings people can pick for prizes and ones she wants to keep, without having to list an insane amount of hatchlings in the forum and without the risk of someone seeing it for sale and just buying it when it is meant to be a prize.


Ah, ok! Now I get it. Thanks for clearing that up. :)

[Just to add on to what Selestial, I'm one of those players who price my pets at 999,999,999 gold to differentiate them for gifting/releasing. Though I usually set it sellable to my own ID so only I can see that price.
Besides, I highly doubt anyone has that much gold. (would really like to see if there is someone that rich o_o ) So I'm pretty sure people who set their pets at that price are not intending for them to be bought.]



To add my opinion to the main suggestion, I'm not for the idea.
Like Shadow said, I don't really like the idea of people determining my pet value for me. And most likely, with this system, there will be more unrest within the community as some people may "force" others to conform to the price, even if there is "freedom"

(There are already certain unofficial standards that some people will nag at others to conform to. Have seen that, though rarely. If there is an official standard, it may get worse.)


That said, personal feelings aside, it's probably a really hard feature to implement.
For one, the tracing of lineage means a lot of work for the system. So all the coding, and added burden on the system... probably too much work especially considering Krin is the only one doing the coding.

And then (with themed pets) there is still that issue of dyeing pets of which some people are very rigid in absolutely no dyeing for themed, whereas some others are okay if the dyeing occurs within the natural colour swing, whereas others still uses their rights to do whatever they want with a pet that is theirs. There is no right or wrong opinion in this case. But with such a system, the admins would be forced to make a stand on the issue, and "force" others to conform to their stand, since the stand they take will affect the "official" pricing.
(ie does dyeing themed pets lower/not affect the themed pricing)

And for non-themed pets, having a system to base pricing on genes/mutations is really iffy.
Some traits are more liked than others, especially the newer ones. And what about traits combination? Some combinations work better together, while others look horrible together. And who's to decide what looks nice? different people have different opinions.
And what about colours? Some multi-vis pets have very plain colours, and I wouldn't pay to buy them, whereas other few vis pets have absolutely gorgeous colourings. And again, differing opinions will make this impossible to fix.

While I understand what the main post is trying to address, I just think the suggestion is not really feasible, and will more likely create more problems than solve them. =/
Pets differ from items in that, for items, there is only one "variation" of it. any different colours or changes to the item, and it goes by a different name. Whereas a species of pets, with different colours and traits combination, are all still that same one species.


I do believe though, that the admins plan to implement a system in the scale shop where users can sell their pets for a base scale price, to reduce the problem of 1g pets. Not sure if it's confirmed/in the works. We'll probably have to wait and see for that. =/
And they are thinking of ways to help reduce the problems in the pet economy. It's not easy, but they're putting a lot of thought into it and trying their best. =)