CS Pet Guide Project - Template added to 1st post

[Solloby]

Ok posting is open now <3

[Solloby]

Here is the current Store Pet section draft:

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CS Store Pet Guide

Store pets can be purchased with Chicken Dollars (C$), this website's virtual currency.
C$ can be purchased with real money, or through trading with other players.

Store pets are released once every two months. Once a store pet is retired, it is never put up for sale again, but you can trade them with other players if you want an older/retired store pet. Most store pets become Rare or Very Rare once they gain their rarity tags. The oldest of store pets are now OMGSR.

Current store pets can be bought individually here
Current store pets can be bought as a set for a discount here

Tess does not consider Store Pets to be part of a complete collection (2009). It is up to you as an individual whether or not you wish to trade for store pets or consider them part of your normal collection.

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Trading Retired Store Pets

The following information should be kept in mind when trading retired store pets.
You should pay attention to the store pet's age (year of release) and rarity tag, but also...


• Older store pets are usually considered more valuable because they are usually rarer
  
• More popular store pets were bought more, so there are more around meaning they are lower rarity
• Less popular store pets were bought less, so there are less around meaning they are higher rarity
• Some pets could only be purchased as part of a full set, so they have a higher rarity than their littermates
• Store pets are usually Rare or Very Rare. The oldest retired store pets are now OMGSR.
• Store pets are never rereleased, so they increase in rarity compared to normal pets but only once per year.
• Store pets usually cost 20C$ when released, but are worth more once they are retired.

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Store Pets - Oldest to Newest

Skelebun - Orange Cerberus
Drink Me - Eat Me - Green Liontail - Jeweled Liontail - Nonjewel Liontail
Red Seal PPS - Blue Seal PPS - Green Seal PPS
Sleipnir - Red Cerberus
Winged Green Android - Blue Android - Red Android - Yellow Android
White Lolita - Yellow Punk Dog - Pink Punk Dog - Orange Punk Dog
Raven Dog - Patchwork Dog
Marionette Dog - Clockwork Bunny
2011 store pets (oldest to newest)
2012 store pets (oldest to newest)
2013 store pets (oldest to newest)
2014 store pets (oldest to newest)
2015 store pets (oldest to newest)
2016 store pets (oldest to newest)
2017 store pets (oldest to newest)
2018 store pets (oldest to newest)
2019 store pets (oldest to newest)

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Store Pet Historical Information

Skelebun & Orange Cerberus were the first Store Pets. They were more expensive than other store pets, and only available from Oct - Nov 2009, although they were accidentally included in the first two rereleases. This makes them the most rare and valuable of store pets. Orange Cerberus was more expensive but more well liked, so more were purchased compared to Skelebun. This means Skelebun is the rarest of all store pets and this was why it was first to go OMGSR.

Drink Me & Eat Me were also released in Oct 2009, but were available until Feb 2010 so their rarity is lower. Drink Me was more popular than Eat Me so more were bought which is why it turned OMGSR after Eat Me did. This is the same for Green Liontail and Raven Dog, who are still Very Rare while their littermates are OMGSR. They have higher demand but also higher supply. More people like them, but there are more around.

Winged Green Android was the first store pet that could not be purchased individually, only as part of a set. This means this outcome is rarer than its littermates because less would have been bought. This will be the same for all store pets that are set exclusives (only available when you buy the full set). Even today there are store pets released this way.

Red Cerberus is one of only two Cerberus pets on the site. It was released a long time after Orange Cerberus, but some people mistake them for being littermates. When Orange Cerberus went OMGSR, traders started valuing Red Cerberus a lot higher in trades, and this misunderstanding may be part of the reason why. Orange Cerberus was one of the first store pets in 2009, while Red Cerberus was released in 2010.

Original Pet Prices
Orange Cerberus cost 44C$
Skelebun cost 35C$
Drink Me, Eat Me, Patchwork Dog, Raven Dog, Marionette Dog and Clockwork Bun cost 25C$
All other store pets cost 20C$ each unless they were set exclusives (sets are usually 50-60C$)

Further Reading

[Solloby]

Feedback for Store Pet Draft:

Don't forget that the orange cerb and the skelebun were part of the first Dec 18th rerelease by mistake

edit: looks like in 2010 too:
accounts/viewgroup.php?userid=46911&groupid=967279&pageStart=0

> Hyperlinks need adding to pets

> Drink Me is OMGSR now also

> Mention Red Cerby demand increasing in response to Orange Cerby going OMGSR

[Solloby]

Taking guide name suggestions, that's an easy place to start!

To start us off, some suggestions:
CS Pet Guide
CS Valuable Pet Guide
CS Highest Value Pets
CS Rarest Pet Guide

[Burrito Bunny]

I actually would not object to this being just about store pets, all the ins and outs and different opinions on trade values, C$, etc. I think most the up and coming guides focus on the old valuables, but maybe having a specific guide for store pets would be good.

But idk! More opinions on the other things don't hurt I guess.

Also I don't want to be nitpicky, but in light if the rarity update a few days ago "Drink Me was more popular than Eat Me so more were bought which is why it has a lower rarity tag. " probably should just say that the eat me rose in rarity first, to avoid confusion as both are omgsr currently now.

[Solloby]

Yeah that one happened really quickly! Definitely needs updating.

I originally planned to have the store pets guide separate, but then I thought, if we have separate guides for store pets, ur pets, 2008 pets, 09 pets, zebras... will people read them all? I thought maybe we could do one guide per post.

Otherwise, we could do a 2008/09/zebra guide, then have links to separate guides for store pets and another one for ur pets?

[Burrito Bunny]

Hmm we do zebras and URs and white Malk dragon together on the wiki. Maybe 3?
Store pets
Valuable standard releases
UR/weird things

But then again putting them in posts would work too. It's a tricky balance between organization and making things easily accessible. 🤔
Then again, having a store pet guide specifically could draw more attention to it as compared to the other guides coming up that also generally cover everything valuable. But eh, I think you are actually right in just doing them in separate posts the more I think about it.

[lil rascal]

I like the idea of having them in separate posts rather than separate guides, though would have no problem with separate guides as well if people want to make them, and name wise I prefer CS valuable pet guide or CS rarest pets guide

[BabyKoreanPanda]

Separate posts on the same guide would be extremely helpful. Also, CS Rarest Pet Guide sounds good to me. The valuable pet guide makes it seem like only those specific pets are valuable. I hope to be more involved in this in the future. ^^

[Meduz]

I agree with the suggestion to have the URs/Zebra's together, storepets on another post and then another post for the regular free releases.

Guide name suggestions
- valuable pets guide
- rarest pet guide
- unusual pet release guide
- noteworthy pet (release) guide

Alternative front page layout suggestion
- intro post
- 08/09 regular releases post
- Dec 18th releases (URs etc)
- others(?) - zebras malk, dragon

Scope wise I think we should cover all pets that were/are released differently from how monthly adopts work at the moment. I.e. pets that could be adopted for more than a month, pets that were significantly rarer than their littermates, pets that are only released on Dec 18th etc. I would also like to see some note made about pets like the shima longtail, July PPS and white February.

I would like to see the storepet guide as part of this guide. A more detailed storepet thread could exist seperately with all the names and such?

The URs section is probably the easiest to draft next