Responsible Breeding/Pricing Guide

[linksage]

Price Guide for Animals on SBF

This is an attempt at a pricing guideline for newbies. When putting your male animals up for stud, or when selling an animal, use this to get a general idea of where your animals should be priced. It may seem expensive to you right now, but the economy of SBF is highly inflated, as you'll no doubt see before long.

Take this list with a grain of salt--different factors (and general inflation) will either raise or lower these base price suggestions; we'll discuss those factors later.

Price Suggestion Based on Animal's Rarest Color/Variation trait (assuming animal is double in that rarity--for example: Endangered Color AND Endangered Species)

Rarity-------------------------Stud Price-----------Sell Price
Overpopulated----Rarity 10: 50-------------------5,000
Abundant----------Rarity 09: 100-----------------10,000
Common----------Rarity 08: 200------------------15,000
Uncommon--------Rarity 07: 5,000---------------30,000
Exotic--------------Rarity 06: 15,000--------------80,000

Rare---------------Rarity 05: 100,000-------------1,000,000
Very Rare---------Rarity 04: 500,000-------------2,000,000
Extremely Rare---Rarity 03: 1,500,000-----------6,000,000
Threatened-------Rarity 02: 4,000,000+----------10,000,000+
Endangered------Rarity 01: 25,000,000+---------40,000,000+
Almost Extinct----Rarity 00: 50,000,000+---------100,000,000+

So if you had an animal with two traits of different rarities (ie, an endangered color but an overpopular variation), you would estimate the price--closer to the rarer price, but not quite as expensive.




Things that should effect the animal's price

1. The Animal's Stats
Animals with 'Fair" in all their stats should be on the cheaper end of the spectrum, while five "NO WAI!"s should increase the animal's value by quite a bit.

2. The Lifespan of the Animal.
Mice, Hamsters and Seahorses pass on around 6 years of age, which is about 5 months of real time. They require a lot more work in training and breeding to replace, as well as to keep the line going--and at the same time, they don't have much time to compete. These short life animals should be a bit cheaper.

Animals with excessively long lifespans (50+ years) should be much more expensive--they stick around the site for years in real life time, offering plenty of time to train them and compete with them, which increases their overall value.

3. Details
An animal with details is worth more than an animal without (obviously). While not having details wouldn't necessarily make an animal cheaper, having details should increase the animal's studding price.

4. Age
This is along the same lines as the animal's lifespan, but really only effects the price if you're selling an animal (it shouldn't effect studding price). If an animal is close to retirement age, they aren't worth as much to someone buying it, so you should sell the animal at a discount.

5. Breeding
Not everyone cares about this, but some folks do, so it's worth mentioning. Animals who are pure bred (variation wise) may be considered more valuable than half blood animals. For example, an Arctic Fox whose parents were both Arctic foxes (or both ?????), may be be worth more than one that came from an Arctic and a Red.

6. The Popularity of the Animal
Horses, Dogs, Cats and Wolves are some examples of popular animals on the site. These will generally sell for higher than less popular animals. The best way to gauge this is by lurking about the forum.

7. The Rarity of the Animal
This is best seen by searching for your animal on the market--by either color or variation (whichever you consider it's most valuable trait). If there are very few of that variation/color in existence (or on active accounts) the animal is worth more. If there's a ton of them, the value of the animal is considerably lowered.

8. Whether or Not the Animal is Named
Unnamed animals sell for more--and are more likely to sell--because people like to name their critters.

9. Sterilization
Sterilized animals are not worth as much--but on the other hand, by sterilizing you can ensure that the animal you sell doesn't end up being overbred, and therefor doesn't end up destroying the value of the entire population.



How to breed responsibly
1. By Correctly Pricing the Animal if it's put up for stud.
2. By Correctly Pricing the Animal and it's offspring if put up for sale.
3. By Sterilizing some/all the animals you sell to avoid having the person who buys it over breed/sell.
4. By not over breeding an animal, especially if it has a long lifespan.
5. By releasing most mis-bred animals (animals who were born and didn't have the color and/or variation you were shooting for)
6. By following any guidelines the seller provides you before your purchase.



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If anyone has anything to add, or suggestions to change the information here, please let me know. I'm not 100% on the prices, but that should at least help, even if they're still a little low in some spots (though I wonder if some are too high?).

[Little Red]

Good job putting this up! So many people don't have a clue what to price, so they usually underprice which in turn makes other people's animals (like endangereds) that usually go for ALOT, end up going for around 1mil or less!!! We really need to start doing this more often! Again good job!

[Cowgirls Rule]

Great guide linksage! Kudos to you! That was very helpfull.

[Misty Glen]

Nice job, but I think you've overpriced some of the less rare animals. Overpopulated animals typically sell for $100, not $50k, and stud for about $50. Similar values for rarities 9, 8, 7, stuff like that. Perhaps getting to about $1k - $5k sale price by rarity 7, although it does depend on species. Ones that aren't very popular have few breeders, so people are willing to pay a bit more for an animal since there's so few available. The scarcity of a trait will also push the animal's overall value up or down. Even so, it's almost impossible to find an animal of such a low rarity that has a valid reason for being sold for such a high price as $50k.

[Bezzella]

Wonderfully done!

[RZ]

yeah, this is great-wish id seen it when i was new- but i agree that the overpopulated/common animlas should be lower - thats still a lot of money, especially for a new player still realing from sticker shock

[LizM25]

Thank you! I've been hoping to find a guide like this!!

[LizM25]

I use this guide all the time! This is great.

[Cowgirls Rule]

bumping this back up.