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- Posted: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:23:17 +0000
Non-trigger, generic, aquarium fish sold for gold in Phin Phang.

(1) Gold Sink
Sold @ the reasonable price range of 200g - 2k each , keeping a full tank of fish will easily run a user up 3400g to 34,000g respectively. Given a reasonable lifespan (2 weeks+), you have a steady gold sink right there. I think fish die more often than a person changes their avatar & even so, fish die, items do not. Fish will probably sink more gold than any other goldshop besides the Salon (and perhaps surpass the salon since we have wigs & equippable eyes now).
As further incentive to sink our gold, the no-trigger fish should also have their own fish drops.
(2) More Variety for the Gaian solely using gold.
I'm only interested in creating a pretty tank & keeping the overseer/ merman jaws enabled; I have no interest in maintaining an aquarium for others to profit at my expense (gold-wise) & why am I gonna waste 20k for one single fish when all I want to do is decorate my tank (with fish, not decorative items)?
Having an aquarium filled with differently colored fish shouldn't be a privilege solely reserved for Booty Grabbers. Goldfish (and other daily chance fish) are only obtainable en masse from the marketplace & no offense to the artist who colored them, but the arrow fish & hermit cats have the most obnoxious green; I cannot create a beautiful tank unless I stick to a neon color-scheme. Can you say ew? Not everyone is into "neon" colors.
(3) Won't impact CS fish purchases !
The majority (if not all) the people purchasing fish/aquarium bundles with Gaia Cash are NOT doing it for the decorative aspect of aquariums. They're booty grabbers. Booty grabbers won't waste essential space with no-trigger fish. They want a FULL tank of HIGH trigger fish. So, you're not losing any gaia cash costumers by adding no-trigger fish to gold shops.
side note: Is Gaia truly free-to-play? Cash Shops should be completely superfluous like in other MMO's. You've done that wonderfully with plain-ol clothing items (clothing for gold, clothing for GC), but why can't you do that with fish (especially when you eliminate their booty-grab-triggering) ?