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Leave it as it is. |
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Just increase the time. |
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Move to a number of tries [read the first post] for the cool down. |
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Cool Downs don't matter, why not just get rid of them. |
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I have another idea [Post in thread]. |
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I have no opinion on cool downs. |
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Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:48 pm
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Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:51 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 12:27 am
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 7:24 am
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:11 am
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A few years ago when I started in on staff, we tried to implement a monthly calendar schedule to try to make it so breedings/etc didn't overlap.
The problem being it got less and less updated in a matter of just a few months - colorists didn't necessarily know that far ahead of time how their free time would work out. They'd want to make sure they finished up all of their stuff from the last month before taking on anything new, or if they're in school or working (which most are), they don't know what weeks will give them the most time to take on breedings or customs.
And same thing with freebies or other events - often they aren't finished until right before the flaffle/etc (why not give colorists the time until the event opens to make ponies - and in many cases, some are added before the completion to give the opportunity for more winners.
And most colorists (at least when I was working) had their monthly assignment (freebies, breedings or customs) - but don't have to get approval for the date or specifics of those openings ahead of time. IF they finish the quota that SAME month they took them, they can also take on extra MCCL, or then, get approval for an extra give-away, but that admittedly rarely happens. It takes a long time to make soquili, even the basic quota - and most colorists already regularly take on more than the required slots in customs (5) and breedings (3).
With Staff credits - it's also easier said than done to just push a gift back a month - staff can only turn in for a soquili for themslves OR a friend once per month (AND they have to be caught up with work to do so), and also they have to have different cool downs for customs and breedings - so sometimes they have to time it to not butt into those cool downs, or interfere with other promised or planned credit expenditures.
I just don't think a calendar of events at the beginning of the month to allow people to pick which ones they want to shoot for is realistic.
Additionally, if you went with the one thing one per month, you run into the same issues with one breeding slot a month that came up earlier - namely, screwing over a breeding partner for your 2nd couple if you win with your first.
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 9:13 am
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 9:42 am
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 2:44 pm
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I still don't think breedings need to have a different cool-down. At least, not the factor of how many you can win a month. Maybe increase the cool-down for an individual horse. Case in point, by the time another breeding rolled around, my pair with Saint Sergio, Jaloo and Engel, were eligible again for a second breeding after their first one. So if we increase the cool-down for the actual HORSES to "You have to wait this long after your horse's offspring are adults", like how you have to wait a month after obtaining an adult Soquili to breed it, that might help things a bit. Nobody loses out that way, because then if Owner A has six pairs, they can rotate any that are life-mates, while not shorting Owner B who may only have two pairs entering.
That said, one a month is just... Not going to work quite so well? It'd be a bit hard to do, especially since most often events DON'T happen for a month or more. The only thing that happened, staff-run, in November were the very last games for the Halloween event, and everything else was customer-run. Something like having a 'random/semi-random give aways' cool-down of something like 'You have to sit out 3 random/semi-random give aways' would be easier and more feasible. It still spreads the luck, while also taking into account that give aways don't always happen. If five colorists have one small give away each in a month? So be it, it could theoretically happen. But given it usually doesn't outside huge events, it'd seem fairer. Ultimately it'd be up to the participants as to if they want to sit out and wait for 'something better' or try their luck in EVERYTHING. I know I do.
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 4:15 pm
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Andranis I still don't think breedings need to have a different cool-down. At least, not the factor of how many you can win a month. Maybe increase the cool-down for an individual horse. Case in point, by the time another breeding rolled around, my pair with Saint Sergio, Jaloo and Engel, were eligible again for a second breeding after their first one. So if we increase the cool-down for the actual HORSES to "You have to wait this long after your horse's offspring are adults", like how you have to wait a month after obtaining an adult Soquili to breed it, that might help things a bit. Nobody loses out that way, because then if Owner A has six pairs, they can rotate any that are life-mates, while not shorting Owner B who may only have two pairs entering.
I wish i could support this, however I can't. The actual soquili themselves DO have a longer cool-down. i believe it's 2 months? But I haven't checked in a while. However, saying that they have to wait for the foals to be adults for so long would be unfair. Some growths happen on time or even faster. And others can take months. One of my LL breedings won a slot but after 4 months? We finally were allowed to get a new colorist. It would have been unfair to have to wait 5 months to breed that soquili again while someone only had to wait one.
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 4:33 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 6:52 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 7:07 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 7:48 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 9:06 pm
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Sabin Duvert Summed - *confused* at this point, you can enter two couples into breeding raffles, and win up to two times. So even if you win with one couple, you can still win with your other couple, thus not knocking the partner you have with the second couple out of the running. If you could only win one breeding a month, but you enter twice, if you win with your first couple, suddenly your other breeding partner can't win with your second couple any more?
That's exactly what i mean.
But you do make a valid point . . perhaps it should be enter one couple win once.
its the best way to spread slots to the most people. a small sacrifice for the happiness of all.
perhaps just try in on trial basis see if it works
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Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 11:46 pm
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