Showcats

The trophies for February have gone out and been setup to go out on the last day of each month

Showdog

The dog rating update has been put into effect.

We have changed the point schedule update e-mails so that they only go out to subscribers.

Showcats

Fixed an issue with some catteries that had their subscriptions setup manually that prevented them from updating their cattery breed.

Added a link to Generic SOP, a site similar to Skipwall for Showdog, to the simulation tools page.  You can find it HERE.

The duplicate transactions from the 24th have been refunded.

Fixed an issue with dropping accounts from family subscriptions.

We recently made two updates to Showdog in order to help the daily salary come back up. 

Increased Cost of All-Breed Shows

The cost of all-breed shows has been increased to $4,000.  This change will remove an additional $6,000 a day from the game that will be put back in the form of daily salaries.  Based on recent activity, this will increase the daily salaries by about $.25 per ‘share’.  It’s not much but it will help a bit.

Any argument that this will cause fewer shows to be added to the schedule is baseless until we have a single day when the show schedule isn’t filled up within a few hours of midnight.  We’re going to watch what this does to the entry fees.  The last cost increase didn’t have any noticeable impact on the entry fees which are currently at an average of $11.63 for the next month.

For those that are upset this will make sponsoring shows uneconomical for some, that’s the point.  It’s not supposed to be economical for everyone.

Removal of Inactive Kennels from Salary Pool

We added inactive premium kennels to the salary pool because of the extremely passionate complaints from people who left the site for a few months and came back later only to find that their kennel didn’t get their salaries.  However, as soon as we started adding these kennels back to the pool, the daily salaries dropped by about 20%.  This move made leaving your kennel alone for a few months and coming back a legitimate strategy to increase your average balance.

This restriction will be added to the Terms and Conditions and users will not be charged for dog food when they are inactive for two weeks.

Our e-mail host went down around 4 AM on Sunday.  They've told us they would get it back up ASAP but haven't made any progress.  The last time this happened, my e-mail was down for a week so we've gone ahead and started the process of changing e-mail hosts.

For now, new account sign ups will be sent their passwords from our "cattle.com" (not showcattle.com) e-mail address which was the first account we moved over due to its relatively short time on the new host.  We won't be able to send out forgotten password e-mails until later today.

In one word "SNAFU"

Showcats

Trophies for January have been awarded.

Trophyhorse

Basic users can no longer bid on pregnant mares.

Showdog

Added a link to the bulk feeding tool on the main kennel page.

Added a listing of dogs at stud the user information pages.

Added breed forums for the following breeds;

• Beauceron
• Black Russian Terrier
• German Pinschers
• Glen of Imaal Terrier
• Plott
• Polish Lowland Sheepdog
• Redbone Coonhound
• Tibetan Mastiff

Added the International Champion title to all dogs that have won the SDWC but not been awarded the title.

Showcattle

The market prices have been setup to update more often than once every week.