Takora Drakan wrote:Many people often keep a pet for a while, and then trade it away/auction it off to get something else. While a pet would be not avialable for a while, it would come back sooner or later. Also you have to think about confiscated pets, even people with very valuable collections are banned because they cheat in one way to another or did cheat in the past (because everyone gets caught thanks to the cheating detection of Nick), they would be again in circulation, thanks to the pound. And the circle starts new.
But this happens anyway - the ones in the hoard would not re-enter circulation via these methods (hypothetically; because if I did do something this odd I would have to release them to serious collectors if I managed to screw up the supply enough, which would prevent the major screw up I'm hypothesising about to a degree). As for Dec 18, I would have to take as many of those CE Galaxies as possible for my hypothetical hoard.
I guess the question is, how many CE Galaxies can you get with a full set of July and August 08 dogs, and is it enough to seriously screw up the supply? I think you could get at least 30 (assuming their value doesn't skyrocket in response halfway through). Keeping in mind it wouldn't work that simply because the Galaxies are spread across multiple people, so it's unrealistic to expect say only Galaxies for every July 08 VR/OMG. I think that would be the biggest hurdle facing someone crazy enough to do this. Also, only people with the July and August 08 pets, or other high rares list stuff such as the Zebras and high level URs, would be in any position to do this. And since it hasn't happened yet (not to a main Rares List pet anyway) one could assume nobody can/will do anything like this, to that extent anyway. But if it did happen, it would be very interesting.
Sorry if I've taken this thread onto a tangent, I just find the idea of a single person using a hoard to cause a noticeable impact on the site rather intruiging.