ElementalInsanity wrote:Also to add in, no. This is not mostly a demand based list. There’s a large reason why many ‘demand based’ pets are not on here. As in: July lioness. August pps. Dragon cat pps.
This is a list for the rarest pets, and these pets are not rare enough to be added no matter how much demand others may say they have.
This list takes into consideration demand, but it is not a demand based list. We also take into consideration circulation (in which all the pets listed above are trades around so often and so readily available I again don’t see why they would be put on here), and rarity.
And I’m fairly sure we’ve come to a community agreement to not include demand as strongly as we go through correcting pets.
So we aren’t shooting anyone down or trying to be unwelcoming, we are saying why these pets are not going to be considered to be put on here for a very long time.
If we went throwing pets on that had good demand every time just because people say it’s worth that, we would have an insane mess of just demand based placements.
Just because people say demand is worth list, doesn’t make it true. =)
It is entirely unrealistic to ignore that demand heavily skews placements on this list. Like I stated earlier, there are OMGSR pets below the gap. To say that this is not a demand-based list is false. However, it is a rarity-based list at heart. I'm not discounting that. I just think the list had good intentions at first, but its gone so far down the rabbit hole of demand and at this point, you can't just brush off questions about placement due to demand because they aren't "rare" enough. Once you add in the demand element, you're bound to get these questions. It opens up an avenue for discussion, and I really think its a necessary discussion to have. At what point should pets be added to the list - more specifically, high-demand store pets that go for lists?
I dont agree with putting the pps dragoncat on the list, however. I never said I was supportive of it. I believe in a strictly rarity-only list, so I don't think that it should be added. But again, its personal opinion. Some value demand over actual rarity. Its a list that incorporates both - so we cant just nay them to death when we disagree. ^^
I also entirely disagree with the concept of "correcting placements." We should be remaking the list, not correcting these ones "as we go." If anything, it needs to be an all-at-once correction, or a new rarity-based list off to the side. By "correcting as we go", it's just furthering the lists complications and confusing the entire community.
Just a few of my opinions - I hope it doesn't come off as too rash, I'm just extremely direct and tend to have a hard time explaining things otherwise.