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Posted 2021-08-13 16:16:25 #506081 Nice. I hope we get a selection for the raffle stud in the Crossroads at some point, like how Lioden has it with their special lionesses.

Crux #44246

Posted 2021-08-13 16:19:47 #506083 Auburn Wings? Nice

Snowcat13 🌞 #3716

Posted 2021-08-13 16:22:40 #506084 That's such a pretty stud, hopefully I get lucky next time!

Food? #20022

Posted 2021-08-13 16:54:48 #506093 Cool, I just spent three weeks and a ton of time/effort/money to breed Silver Lupos, and I apparently could've just waited to have it handed to 30 people on a raffle stud. Since raffle markings are actually quite difficult to get from RMAs, I thought it would be worth spending the time to breed the combo color I wanted so badly because it wasn't likely to drop out of an RMA more than once or twice in the next few months. Guess I wasn't thinking about future raffle studs. And why is the Silver Lupos not even mentioned on the news post? That's a huge deal? The Smoke eyes are mentioned and those have been released multiple times.

GrayEmbers #29636

Posted 2021-08-13 16:55:53 #506095 Ok ok ....the new stud has silver lupos, which is pretty cool, right? But what about the people who tried really really hard to breed silver lupos??? Now it's just gonna be handed out? I am really wondering why the admins made this decision? There are currently TWO pups in the game with it. Only one MIGHT have time to grow up and be studded out if the owner uses an age crystal right now, because it's 6 months old TODAY. There are so few things in this game that hold value any more and rare marks are one of them, this new stud is really going to devalue all the effort people put into breeding! I really wanted to try for Auburn wings but at this point why should I if it's just going to be released in a month?

Zea #27549

Posted 2021-08-13 17:42:52 #506113 @GrayEmbers and Websteak: Adding Silver Lupos to the raffle stud was not done out of malice.  I thought it would be a nice gesture for any players that may have wanted Silver Lupos within their own packs, and figured that releasing it on a raffle stud after the marking was available in-game for nearly a month wouldn't be an issue.  It's clear that I made a poor decision here, and I'll keep this in mind for future raffle studs that I release.  I'm not sure what a safe amount of time would be to wait between releasing new combo markings on raffle studs after they are available within RMAs/Total Shuffles will be, so please bear with me while I figure this out. As for why Silver Lupos was not explicitly mentioned within the news today, it's a combo marking, not a raffle marking.  I only direct attention to the raffle-exclusive attributes that raffle studs have (e.g. Dust, Smoke, Storm eyes, whatever raffle-tier marking they have, etc.).  The raffle-exclusive attributes for this week's stud are his Smoke eyes and White Wings Scarce marking.  It wasn't an attempt to snub Silver Lupos, but I didn't figure that a combo marking needed attention drawn to it, seeing as most of the other prior raffle studs have had combo markings of some sort (looking at Sterling Cross and Silver Neck Band that Buckeye had the other week) and those aren't mentioned in the news, either. I will take your feedback to heart, and I am very sorry for upsetting you with my choice of markings today.  After reading your comments, I briefly considered removing the marking, but ultimately decided against it, as players have already entered the raffle stud with the knowledge that he has Silver Lupos.  That being said, it's very important to keep in mind that these markings won't be exclusive forever—all common, custom, raffle-exclusive, combo/breed-only, RMA-exclusive, and NBW-exclusive markings can be released on raffle studs, as has been shown with raffle studs released in the past, and when raffle studs are made available to breed with, their markings are released into the RMA/Total Shuffle pool straight away.  Even if Silver Lupos hadn't been released on this week's raffle stud, it's entirely plausible that someone could have RMA'd that marking onto their breeding male.

Katze #3

Posted 2021-08-13 17:51:49 (edited) #506115 After some thought I realized what the above states is 100% logical.  Why have combo marks if the assortment aren't breed only?  Many bases are breed-only.  You can't just create even a T1 tumbleweed (which is a beautiful base, btw) with a base changer, you have to breed for one. I ask this rather rhetorically: at what point does it then become just a cosmetic "dress up your wolf" game?  Breeding sims are about breeding.  If your stud doesn't have nice marks, you breed or buy a nicer one.  You want that nice auburn whatever you breed for it, or you find a player who put in the work.  That isn't "too hard" as anyone can find or spend rmas on getting the parent marks to create a combo.  It doesn't allow someone to corner the market, so it's still fair. Those things stimulate the economy in a breeding sim, because breeding is often all the average player has at their disposal. Edit: thank you Katze for your reply, I posted when it wasn't there.  I appreciate you and all the admins listening.

Newfluffland #751

Posted 2021-08-13 18:24:50 #506120 Oh please oh please, dieties of fate, let me win the raffle stud this week!!!!

LollipopMischief 🍭 #8330

Posted 2021-08-13 18:38:30 #506125 Redacted due to Account Closure

Closed Account #46178

Posted 2021-08-13 18:43:22 #506126 Isn't Lupos a raffle marking? This week's poll is about raffle-exclusive markings, and Lupos is one of the things you can vote for. Unless that's only referring to Black and White Lupos?

Food? #20022

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