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Inupei's avatar
7 years ago

Selling Puppies & Their Prices

Despite having Cats & Dogs since it came out, I just recently learned that you can sell your puppies and kittens. I've noticed that not all offspring are equal in price. Does anyone know which kind are more profitable? Or what the "formula" is, so to speak?

I feel as though the prices aren't random at all. I believe trough some testing it may have to do with the traits the puppies have. My highest puppy I've sold was for $896, who had the traits Vocal, Playful, and Loyal. I'm going to make a family with 7 puppies with those traits just to sell and see if, indeed, it isn't random.

And if it's not random, I plan on making a chart of all the possible trait out comes and test their prices. This would take awhile maybe. We'll see what happens.

I'm only testing small dogs for now, I have no clue if large dog puppies have different prices (I should have a mix of large and small for the 7 puppy test. :O Why didn't I think of that sooner? xD) and I won't be doing cats (since they have their own set of traits). One project at a time.
  • @Writin_Reg I agree. I love the fact that they're against Pet mills, but not all pet stores provide animals from mills or chained breeders. Some are just family stores and self bred. That's what the other person was suggesting EA should add.
  • Maybe the price goes down with each puppy you sell? The first test with the 7 puppies had just over a $100 difference between each one. So it maybe has nothing to do with traits, it's all about the order you sell them in?
  • Holy smackeral! :O What news! I didn't even think to look at any coding. x3
  • What traits do your sims have? :O I'm not 100% certain but I think Cat/Dog Lovers will get sad when selling/giving up a pet?
  • Hmmm, that's strange. You'd think there'd be some sort of pattern. I wonder if purebred puppies would be sold for more? I wouldn't know because I've only sold one mixed breed puppy before and she was only $300 I think.
  • I got a good price for my pup and I don't even remember the traits, but I waited until he was all potty trained and the care level was good overall. but not excessively managed. I had wondered if the extent of potty training helps. Did you notice if that factor/progress of each pup helps? I was curious but have not done another batch yet to compare. They are a small breed only had the one pup in that batch.
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