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posted by northywoods
I think one should get some kind of monetary benefit from forever homing dogs. Say like $25 or something.

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I was wondering how long until that was suggested again. This comes up over and over again but it is never going to happen because it promotes puppy-milling. Having a game where puppy milling (mass production of low quality animals to earn money) is a viable strategy has huge ethical issues.

Even at only $25/pup for a medium sized breed your talking $150-$200 per litter which since the pups can be FHed as soon as they whelp will be a healthy profit on the food required to feed the parents.

Besides this again 1) rewards breeding over showing when there is an over-supply of pups in many breeds already and a dearth of show entries and 2) benefits large breeds (which also tend to be the popular/high SOP breeds) more than small breeds.

grif,

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posted by Dreisaiah Hundehutte
Why can't the salary just ... go up?

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That still doesn't solve the fact that showing your dogs is inherently a loss making endeavour so there is a strong incentive to limit it. But, I think it is a very good plan B. The game-economy used to be based on new players joining and spending their initial start up money then leaving essentially transferring that money to the longer-time players. It should be possible to work out how much that artificially boosted the average kennel balance and raise the current average kennel balance to compensate by increasing the daily salary. The salary thing is an issue because of the large difference between the maximum balance and the average balance which causes 10 users to be broke for every user at the maximum balance limit.

grif,

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posted by mettlevant
damnant quod non intelligunt!

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By all means, make us understand it then.

I vote yes, simply because it does reflect reality in RL dog shows.

Just as in real life, those with the funds can afford to spend the training and preparation time - not to mention entering and travelling to many, many shows.

Just as in real life, those with truly good dogs can and do win even if they do it on a shoestring.

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posted by Thaidale
I vote yes, simply because it does reflect reality in RL dog shows.

Just as in real life, those with the funds can afford to spend the training and preparation time - not to mention entering and travelling to many, many shows.

Just as in real life, those with truly good dogs can and do win even if they do it on a shoestring.

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That's why, people who can't afford all that, COME TO A SIM GAME for it. o.0

Not yelling, getting my point across

Hmm, I'd be kind of interested in the idea of raising the average balance. It might work. It might just produce a new equalibrium, but we'll be no worse off than we are now and it would appear to be an incredibly easy change. Plus, it's fair to all and does not change the game dynamics.

(By the way, I don't know why but there was a surge in basic salary over the last few weeks. It topped out at $115.27 on August 11th and appears to have started around the end of July. It was $53.56 today and falling so it seems to have run it's course for now. Perhaps it's associated with the Admin reported increased sign ups.)

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I haven't read through all the posts & I couldn't make up my mind on this either way until now. To keep it simple (don't want to re-list the pros & cons) I just think it's a game, so why not? - not that I need any more cash as I've managed my kennel very well to this point. I may change my thinking at a later point tho.

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posted by Rott-Box
vote YES

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Why?

I was thinking about salary the other day and had a thought.

If Jeff could plug something into the code that regulates the salary.

When calculating the $2,500 base difference that determines the salary for the day...

Only use the kennels that fall in between say -$10,000 and +$5,000.

Cant seem to keep myself out of debt. I'd love to buy enough to stay ahead if the cost is cheap. vote yes.

If we are able to buy cash on here I want to buy cash on trophyhorse. NOW you will see why that REALLY defeats the purpose there.

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posted by Solimar
I was thinking about salary the other day and had a thought.

If Jeff could plug something into the code that regulates the salary.

When calculating the $2,500 base difference that determines the salary for the day...

Only use the kennels that fall in between say -$10,000 and +$5,000.

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That won't work because you could get run-away inflation as every kennel gets above $5,000.

Either increase the average salary or decrease the maximum balance.

Poll closed at 55-45 against.

(I know it's a two year old poll, I'm closing old ones to help with keeping track)