Idea how to prevent players to farm CC with animal farms.

[Dr4gon]

Gotta disagree with you there. It's not laziness, it's just taking a free market approach. Caveat Emptor and all that.
It's a completely viable way to do it and as much as it pains me when I accidentally buy an animal that walks with a cane and is staring death from old age in the face, I don't agree that it's Frontier's responsibility to control the market.

They already took responsibility when placing a cap on animal prices. Since that is not satisfactory, it's time to take the next step. Either completely let it loose or put a cap on prices for goods depending on in what state it is. The market gives you little time to think things over, and with some animals are being rare on the market, you need to act fast. Rich people can afford to act fast and think later, but the poor can't. They have to think every move they make, and just see the opportunity slip away in one second flat. It's not like you have two seconds to think. You have just one.

That is how the market works at the moment. When you and I buy an animal on its last moments before death, we suck it up and move on. But when it's your las t CC youve spent on animal, which took you several weeks to gather, you're gonna hate the market and end this deal with a terrible bad feeling and experience. Everybody in this game deserves to have fun. Even the people who are challenged in this area.

 

[CMDR Fresh]

When it ruins the game for people who want to play properly as the dev's intended, it is a problem. I don't want to play sandbox. I want to play franchise, however now i am virtually forced to farm just to get CC to play. it makes the game unappealing. Hence I've stopped playing.

But making it harder to farm CC will only make it even more difficult for you than it is now if you already find it hard. If the devs added an in game currency of course people are going to farm it and it's totally intended. Just get lions and release the offspring to the wild and you'll have all the CC you need to buy animals.

 

[Jaggid Edje]

But making it harder to farm CC will only make it even more difficult for you than it is now if you already find it hard. If the devs added an in game currency of course people are going to farm it and it's totally intended. Just get lions and release the offspring to the wild and you'll have all the CC you need to buy animals.

Have to totally agree with you there. Anyone who finds it hard to get CC right now really isn't even attempting to get it. I do NOT sell any animals at ridiculous prices nor do I try to trick people into buying ancient, ready-to-die animals on the market, nor have I made any zoos just to farm CC...and yet I have over 100,000 CC. I haven't farmed it, I haven't tried to stockpile it...it just happened from playing the game.

I'm a big fan of puppies, so I always add African Wild Dogs and/or timber wolves to any zoo I make. Not because of CC, but because I like dogs. But the end result is a whole lot of CC over time even though they don't release or sell for a lot per animal....they just have a lot of babies. I also like lions and have added those to most zoos....those DO sell or release for a lot of CC. Between the two, the CC just piles up.

 

[azmundai]

I agree, I have more cc than I'll ever need and while I have resold some animals (just in the process of searching for the perfect mate), and once I had a zoo just for the grizzly challenge, the zoo was profitable and the animals were always super happy, I still can make 20k a day, easily without farms, or reselling. I also avoid buying over priced items for the most part. Sometimes I have to, but generally I don't.

I do sell animals fairly high though. imo higher priced animals are likely to sell to people who are actually going to breed them and thus supply me with the mates I need to keep my zoo going, but I don't sell for extreme prices. Giant Pandas are probably the only thing i've sold above 7k. Most of my sales are probably in the 2-5k range. Which is probably where most of my purchases fall as well.

My issue is with low priced animals. Im not saying you can't sell however you want, but .. if I am looking for a mate, I pretty much have to buy that animal. There is no time to compare mates. It will be gone .. and i'm not going to spend the time sorting through that terrible recent transactions page to figure out how little I should sell it back for if it doesn't work out.

 

[azmundai]

Today, for example, I needed a female Giant Panda and literally all of the ones on the market were priced at 10,000 cc....garbage ones, old ones, didn't matter. All from the same seller too, so I think they just bought up all the female pandas.

whats amazing is ppl buy them .. I don't understand that .. and it's frequent enough that it can't be ppl getting played .. I hope ..
I mean I will buy an old male sometimes to hold over till I can find another, or to slip into an older population for better breeding, but I never pay those stupid prices for them ..

someone just bought a 20.2 year old panda for 6k .. #crazypills

 

[Dr4gon]

whats amazing is ppl buy them .. I don't understand that .. and it's frequent enough that it can't be ppl getting played .. I hope ..
I mean I will buy an old male sometimes to hold over till I can find another, or to slip into an older population for better breeding, but I never pay those stupid prices for them ..

someone just bought a 20.2 year old panda for 6k .. #crazypills

Don't underestimate people's ingenuity. There is a way to give friends some CC.
1: I could ask him to put a crappy animal on the market for 10K CC.
2: Than I buy it and voila, he has 10K CC.
3: Before you know it you have people with multiple accounts, or whole clans playing the market.
It will probably not bothering us at all, but it is a thing that can be done.

It's a great way to transfer CC from one account to the other. If some stranger accidentally buys the animal, all the better. I am not saying that I would do this. I had a friend playing the game together with me, but he is not a die hard player of PZ Giving him CC would be a waste.
You can also exchange animals that way to avoid inbreeding.

I don't think it's against the rules to give players CC this way. I don't have to know either, because I am above that. What happens in the market doesn't bother me any way. I can, and everybody else also can, breed good animals out of crappy animals.