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 Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 7:26 pm
Well yes I would expect maxed couples to still want offspring, but then if they continue to win and win and win, people get cranky. Why does this couple get 50 offspring when mine hasn't had any and been trying for years? I can already hear it now.
I'm too lazy to look and see who said it, but I agree that limiting the lovemate couples is kind of unfair. It's a lifestyle choice, if they wanna sleep around, go for it. The lifemates make a choice. Plus trying to regulate that would be such a hassle. "Oh you don't plan to lifemate? You have a different breeding limit"
Riots in the streets!
I still think keeping the limit is a good thing.
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 7:26 pm
See, that's the point right there.
The seathi gets 5 breedings, and the kalona gets 5 breedings, INDIVIDUALLY. So between them, they get up to 10.
In contrast, a uni/wind life mate pair gets 5 breedings TOTAL between them both.
It's not so much about the genetic diversity, as far as I see it, but about the OPPORTUNITIES to breed. Imagine if the Seathie-Lona pair each entered breedings, and each surrogate/donor pair won a breeding in the same month. That couple just won TWO breedings in ONE month, technically. If the same cool-downs applied for BOTH the Seathi and the Kalona, whether the Seathi OR the Kalona landed a breeding, and they had a total of 5 breedings BETWEEN them, that would also be a fair option. Otherwise... There's more opportunity to get breedings for a Seathi-Lona pair than a Uni-Wind, and that doesn't seem entirely FAIR for the Uni-Wind couples.
*Edit* Also keep in mind that, as I read it, love mates now get all the same perks as life mates, on top of 5 breedings for EACH Soquili.
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 7:30 pm
But it doesn't count as the same couple winning two breedings in a month because it's NOT the same couple winning two breedings in a month.
It's the Kalona and his surrogate winning.
And the Seathi and his surrogate winning.
Two completely different couples.
The fact that they live together in a family unit does not mean that the lovemated couple won two breedings in a month. They're not breeding with each other, obviously. .
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 7:36 pm
Okay, pulling this right from the news post in the main thread... xd ;; Quote: Anybody in soquili, sans skinwalkers, have the ability to post in the lifemates thread. - - - - - this includes the usual hetero pairs we see on the list now - - - - - same gendered pairs (so m/m & f/f) - - - - - bonded polygamous groups (so long as all owners agree) - - - - - different base pairs (i.e. a mini & regular sized, or a regular and aquatic, etc.) We've included a surrogacy policy for those couples who just don't have a physical ability to breed, have consent of all owners and co-owners, without docking their lifemate status. THis also goes for lifemates who have unequal numbers of breedings. Essentially, this means that a Seathi-Lona pair has 100% the same perks by declaring each other life mates(Why did Love mate pop up in the first place...? Wrong word, wrong word!) as the Uni-Wind couple... And each still has individually-counted breedings that they can use for surrogates/donors.
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 7:37 pm
Just a curious question, here - why include incest in the original post when it's not something allowed in Soq? It's not a part of the argument, is it?
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 8:01 pm
Thanks for the feedback, but given we just changed the rules for lifemates and increased the count, we're going to stick with what we have for now. First and foremost, nobody has even come close to maxing, so the concern over couples having more children then others is a moot point. Every soquili can have up to 5 breedings (six if they become Elders or are breeding WITH an Elder) period.
The concern here seems to be that those soquili with surrogates get more chances at breedings. That isn't the case. Everyone in soquili gets 4, everyone gets 2 pairs in a raffle, end of story.
What really seems to be troubling folks is that a lifemated pair that surrogates may wind up with more children at the end of the day, thanks to having a blended family, but that could be the case with any soquili, in any situation. Adoptions, foundlings, Wishing Stars. . .
Nothing has changed. Those who fling, these pairs that cannot physically breed for whatever reason, have always been allowed to go out and find a surrogate. The only thing we now allow is them to go on a lifemates list and have their partner need to confirm and approve their surrogate breedings. They have no more advantage than any other soquili couple.
Please remember, a lifemated pair that cannot breed gets surrogates, and there is no guarantee the partner who isn't breeding would get any of the offspring even if there was a third basket as it is not their breeding.
At the end of the day, a person who breeds a pony, regardless with who, has the potential to wind up with 4 foals from a single soquili, 5 if they breed with partners who are maxed, 6 if they are or breed with an Elder. No more, no less.
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