Darkcloud! wrote:without participating in overpay, (or paying for c$) theres no way for newbies and returning players to catch up and have a foot in the trading. In terms of newbies/returns and old players trading, overpay is good. newbie/returns gets old pets that others would deem out of their reach, old player can still trade at a 1:1 or 2:1 pet ratio.
where the issue with overpay lies is in the inflation over known rarity pets (2019 fae foxes, I'm looking at you.) where somehow the trading community has decided to disregard the rarity rating.... and with the concept of introducing real money via c$. (and of course, resellers who ninja for the pets.)
Unless you're a player with that kind of c$ or spare pets to throw around, these overinflated pets are not going to be attainable, as no one wants to be the one to take a "loss" on a valuable pet and put themselves in a worse trading spot.
If you try to hold out against trading in c$ or participating in overpay, you will always be missing pets. you will have smaller and smaller trade folders, and fewer people to trade with. It will become a game of hoping that the pound will give you WL or spare trade fodder, and spending massive amounts of time searching for players who will trade fairly if those within your social circle don't have doubles of what you need. It's exhausting.
^ All of this. I left when I was in a bad place mentally and gave most of my pets to others, now it has been an impossible mission to get anywhere near my dream pet. Even with a pet that is technically higher on the list than my dream pet, people still want more, more more. It's already a really hard pet to find anyone with one in their open trading group, but I've pretty much lost hope of ever being able to get one without giving every 500+ rare I have for it.
It feels like there is just no way to fight back against this economy.
