Limited # of newborns you can adopt

[IORG101]

I think this needs it's own thread so the November Growths thread can get back on track.

Hope this helps clear up some confusion for everyone.

I don't think it's a glitch at all. Think about it, what's the point of making something super-rare if everyone can just keep adopting until they get one? It defeats the purpose of something being so rare.

finally, someone gets it!

this isn't about the cost of hosting all your billions of duplicates, this is about keeping some fairness to the adoptions/trading

at the rate it was going, some people were obviously going to have the full set easily because they just adopted thousands of pets - which wasn't really fair for people who only adopt a few pets and then have to work really hard to trade for the ones they missed

it was just stupid - whenever I set a rare I had to set the probabilities of getting it lower and ridiculously lower, just to try and stop you guys getting so many of them, so that there actually WAS a rare outcome

one pet this month you have a chance of 1/132 or something of getting - it's the rarest pet we have so far (not talking about that green 2nd gen), just because the probability is ridiculous (I used to be able to set 1/10 to have the same effect)

There's just no real point to the site if people can get every single outcome just by bothering to spend more time adopting pets and deleting duplicates - this site is meant to be more interactive than that. What's the point of collecting pets if the only challenge is how many times you can be bothered to adopt more pets? It's just getting stupid...

If I raise the limit, it won't be raised by that much. It's just not the point. Now the limit is on, I can put the probabilities back to normal levels, so you will have a reasonable chance of getting every outcome in the 10 pets you adopted, but without the insanity of some people increasing their chances by adopting hundreds.

Now I just gotta work out how to limit the accounts per i.p...


I am sorry to everyone that this has upset. I didn't warn you guys, because I wasn't home when the limit took effect (I didn't expect it to come in that fast)

I hope it`s a glitch. Such as the "runaway pet" glitch. And, if it isn`t, that we could adopt 10 pets per day. Only being able to adopt 10 dogs in the entire month sucks. D:

it's not 10 per month, it's 10 per each adoptable

so there are 3 dogs up currently, and you can have a total of 30

that's still quite a lot of puppies

I can see the reason for the ban, but... I mean, there are so many people out there who never get rares and don't have anything to trade FOR the rares, and the people who already have rares get the rares. There are a lot of incidents like that, and that isn't too fair either.

exactly, that was the problem, there's no way to fix what has already happened without me stealing peoples pets (which I'm not going to do) but FROM NOW ON it'll be fairer for everyone. The probability of getting a rare will increase, so everyone gets a much fairer chance, without blowing the rares out of proportion. Now everyone will have a fair chance of getting a rare pet, so for future months it won't be so unfair.

[Novelist]

I'm just upset that I deleted my duplicates - and now can't get anymore at ALL.

That's really uncool, to me... I had no idea that would happen. Otherwise I never would've deleted my doubles.

[Shian]

Yeah, I'm thinking we need a 'reset' button pushed.

I'm happy that the numbers are being limited. It will make trading a bit more fun now.
I'm unhappy with the fact that the restriction is in place and the %s of getting each pet is not 'normal' right now. (1/132 instead of 1/10)
It also kind of sucks that there was no warning at all beforehand. Meaning those that got pets and deleted them can no longer get any. Such a thing should have been posted before the restriction was placed!

[Novelist]

Yeah, I'm thinking we need a 'reset' button pushed.

I'm happy that the numbers are being limited. It will make trading a bit more fun now.
I'm unhappy with the fact that the restriction is in place and the %s of getting each pet is not 'normal' right now. (1/132 instead of 1/10)
It also kind of sucks that there was no warning at all beforehand. Meaning those that got pets and deleted them can no longer get any. Such a thing should have been posted before the restriction was placed!

Exactly... I think it needs to be reverted to usual for just a day or two, then a WARNING posted, so that people will know... I had no idea. I knew you could suddenly only have ten of the same type at once, but I had no idea that even deleted pets would count. That's pretty unfair, in my opinion. I personally love the rule change, but a warning would've been lovely...

[Atomic Blue]

Well, I'm just happy Tess put her time into making these....
Like, I'm cool with it.
Maybe cause I'm not quite the collector....lol.

[.Coyote]

Well I think it's a good idea. Then people won't be spending all their time adopting. It becomes almost like a business thing without a limit. This is all for us to have fun right? Now we can stop stressing over if we have all the different kinds or not. Yay Tess!

[WingSpand]

It is needed but, I was in the middle of adopting one minute I could adopt as many as I wanted the next I couldn't adopt anymore. Luckily I still have my duplicates. Too bad this wasn't here earlier. Trading Octobers would have been way more fun.

[PitchBlack]

I have to say, Tess is totally right fore doing this.
I do think that if we delete pets, we should have a grace number
Like say, we can delete five and adopt five different ones
But thats it, no other chances after that
That way, if someone gets ten of the same kind, they can delete 5 and adopt 5 more newborns
But overall, it was kinda getting boring not seeing any rares from october when there were supposed to be like 2 or something
It just takes away the fun of the game
Im personally excited about seeing what I have and what I am going to have to trade for
Thats how I've gotten so many July/August dogs
Its by constantly checking the forums to see what others are offering
So, through all this, just lighten up a bit and have fun with this game
Its not life or death whether you get all the outcomes
Thats just life, it can't be perfect
Ok, Im done lecturing for now
Toodles all

[Corax]

I'm really lost as to what just happened. I just logged on, and I missed being on for a few days, so I don't even know what this whole thing is. Yes, I did just read this thread, but...

Do all the pets we had beforehand (for instance, I had several of each type beforehand) stay with us? Or, if we had more than whatever the limit is, do the ones that are "over the limit" get automatically deleted? Because before the limit, I adopted a lot of November pups just in case (like I usually do, because I've accidentally deleted pets when I meant to do something else just because I wasn't thinking or I was being stupid or whatever, and because I want some to trade. I wind up deleting extras if I have tons of one kind anyway, so... why not?). Anyway, I want to know if I will be able to keep those pups or if some will get deleted because of this new limit.

Otherwise, I think I understand the point of all this, though I kinda wish I had some sort of background to this whole "debate" thingie that's going on. -loves debates- xDD

[Roonie-Roe]

I'm really lost as to what just happened. I just logged on, and I missed being on for a few days, so I don't even know what this whole thing is. Yes, I did just read this thread, but...

Do all the pets we had beforehand (for instance, I had several of each type beforehand) stay with us? Or, if we had more than whatever the limit is, do the ones that are "over the limit" get automatically deleted? Because before the limit, I adopted a lot of November pups just in case (like I usually do, because I've accidentally deleted pets when I meant to do something else just because I wasn't thinking or I was being stupid or whatever, and because I want some to trade. I wind up deleting extras if I have tons of one kind anyway, so... why not?). Anyway, I want to know if I will be able to keep those pups or if some will get deleted because of this new limit.

Otherwise, I think I understand the point of all this, though I kinda wish I had some sort of background to this whole "debate" thingie that's going on. -loves debates- xDD

I don't believe Tess will take away any of the pets that we adopted before the limit was put into place.