Easter Cats

[Nynaveve Wirefly]

I back Liriel on this 100%. As an auctioneer and also as a seller in this breedable, things have completely crashed and bottomed out since the Vday releases. Actually, I would venture to say it goes farther back than that. With all the floods of new traits on the market, Liriel is correct -- Unless you have the newest and most recessive, your cat is worthless. Even those of us who are in this for more than making money or aren't interested in the latest and greatest, are struggling to share our hard work with the community because noses are turned up to a 9T cat.

As soon as you breed out a nice set of traits on a new fur, its worth beans because another newer fur has come out that is now more exciting. So all the time and money you put into breeding that last cat was a complete and total waste. If it isn't the most recessive or the rarest or the latest and greatest, you're out of luck.

With multiple lines of multiple cats, people will literally spend hundreds of RL dollars to collect them all - point in case being the Ambrosias at Vday - and for weeks after that they have nothing to spend in the secondary market. I know that KittyCats tends to support the secondary market - but lately it seems that you are completely contradictory to this with all the collections and new traits coming out. If you aren't stupid lucky breeding your collection cat and pulling out a great fur, eye, and ear, then you're pretty much screwed because by the time you get those traits on the cat, its not going to sell.

With the Ambrosias, not only were they the rarest of the Vdays, they were the ONLY cats to hide a new shade. That was a poor decision to support your secondary market financially. While I realize it brought you a tidal wave of cash, through sheer dumb luck as I understand it, the rest of the market is now dead. Twinkle is one of the few shades people really want (most recessive), the new Vday eyes are the only eyes people want (latest and greatest), and even some of the new traits from the Winter collection are being brushed aside (sorry, yesterday's news).

So those of us who are one of the minority, really, who appreciate well traited cats for the sole purpose of breeding for more well traited cats - or for aesthetics - cannot even afford to feed our own cats anymore because nothing sells. All that time, energy, patience, food and milk... wasted. A 9T cat will no-sale at an auction when the opening bid is 1K. A cat with perfect rainbow prism eyes will sell for 400L. What kind of market is that???

I apologize for the long rant, but this is just one of the many things going on right now that is breaking KittyCats. In summary: Cut back on the collectables. Is it really necessary to put out 20-odd cats? And please stop with the new traits. We have more than we can even remember or count right now.