We could make any pet R, VR, or even OMGSR

[briannna27]

Well, if people started deleting the pets, like all of theres they wouldn't want to, because they want the rares also.

But what about if they delete 9 999 and keep 1? or delete them until they turn rare?

[Rigid {{I'm back!}}]

Well, if people started deleting the pets, like all of theres they wouldn't want to, because they want the rares also.

But what about if they delete 9 999 and keep 1? or delete them until they turn rare?

well the people with the ones that got deleted would also want the rares because they were apart of it. No one I know would delete there pet to make a rarity of someone else's go up.

[briannna27]

Well, if people started deleting the pets, like all of theres they wouldn't want to, because they want the rares also.

But what about if they delete 9 999 and keep 1? or delete them until they turn rare?

well the people with the ones that got deleted would also want the rares because they were apart of it. No one I know would delete there pet to make a rarity of someone else's go up.

I might, if some of mine went up too. Like I said. Keep 1, 5, 10. Maybe collect 10 000 and then 50 more while they're still uncommon so that you have 50 rares/very rares later.

[shadoweon]

I'm not deleteing pets that I don't have tons of duplicates of,sorry. o_o Whats weird is, its actually harder to find a pet rated as "common" than "uncommon". I only have 4 common duplicate pets but I have over 2,000 uncommon duplicates. XD

[Princess Luna]

See, my big issue with this is the pets are going to turn rare eventually anyway. In '09, I very actively hoarded Equimagine horses. They were everywhere, and as far as I remember I almost never traded for them, people were totally happy to give them away for free.
I held onto them, and now I have tons of rares and very rares. Same thing happened with a few dog litters I hoarded, and warrior cats.

[Cuspid]

Yes, but I think that the majority wants to speed it up.

[Princess Luna]

Yes, but I think that the majority wants to speed it up.

But as Solloby pointed it out, it would take an epic amount of hoarding to make a big difference, and even then, who knows how long it would take for the demand to really increase (since the pets being focused on aren't all that popular in the first place).

[nickjr]

I read through the entire thread, and this is the paragraph that I agree with wholeheartedly (not her entire post since I didn't agree/was neutral on the rest of it):

If I was going to do this, the absolute last thing I'd do is make a public post about it in the forums... people who don't participate mustn't know what pet you choose. The honest, decent people who take part will delete the pet you choose, meaning the ones who do the hard work won't benefit from it, and everybody else who has one of the pet but doesn't participate will suddenly have got themselves a R/VR without having to work for it at all... If even one person keeps their hoard, they could end up with a thousand Rares, which they only had to trade a Common's worth for - because when they were trading for them, they WERE Commons. And even if you had the power, it would be wrong to force people to delete their hoards. What if they honestly wanted to keep the hoard because they like the pet, no rarity subterfuge involved?

(near the bottom of page 2, in case you were wondering)

Very neat idea, but I don't support it at all and Accalia Chanteloup said everything I wanted to say.

Solloby's posts also pointed out just how tedious trying to up a rarity would be. If you guys really want to go through with this, I sure hope you have 24 hours of spare time a day O__O; because it sounds very tiring O__O;

[Shian]

Yes, but I think that the majority wants to speed it up.

But as Solloby pointed it out, it would take an epic amount of hoarding to make a big difference, and even then, who knows how long it would take for the demand to really increase (since the pets being focused on aren't all that popular in the first place).

I see the whole exercise as a practice in futility. I don't see any gain in something like this at all for the reasons stated above.

Let's put it this way. When's the last time you've seen anyone in the trade boards looking for Haloween fish? "OMG I really want this VR fish but I can't find it!"
I have hundreds of VR fish.
Hoarding this fish (and the resulting decrease in availability), the fact that it's a VR, NONE of those things matter if there is no interest in it to begin with so even if this does work and you manage to bump a rare into a VR, it really won't help it's trade value.

I've been hoarding the Sept leopard for years and yet it is the least wanted of all the sept 08s and hardest to trade away because it is of low value.

[Ourpawprints]

You would have to delete a lot of them and even then it probably wouldn't work since how many people would really want to delete their pets?