When you start breeding, by taming a male, and a female, you have to breed those pets up through 9 generations (at the least) Each time you drop a ticket on the breeder, he charges you money.
Now that i have brought several mules from gen 1 to gen 9, i can attest, that it costs from 150 to 200k. thats 16 mules, because you did not have to pay the breeder for the generation one pets.
NOW, add in the fact, that quite often, you will get, two males, or two females when you drop the tickets on the breeder. Now what? You cant breed two of the same gender.
You now have to start from scratch with a fresh line of pets, and hope to get a female of similar level/stats etc to breed one of those males to, OR, you go pay 25,000 tokens for a gender change deed. That just jumped the price another seventy five thousand gold coins. Going from gen 1 to gen 9, this is going to happen three times, maybe more, i have one set of mules where i ended up with 7 males and one female, the breed to that females produced one male that could breed and one female, that was sterile.. there ended that line of mules, with close to 250k invested in them, except, that i bought two gender change deeds, so i could continue. Now, i have 400k invested in them, at gen 9, with max hits, and max resists.... BUT, they do not have max dex, or max strength, and mules take 1000 str, so now, I back breed those mules to Gen 1 lvl 30's and start all over again to get enough points to max their strength, their dex, and hopefully add to their stamina and mana...
By the time you get them fully maxed, and ready to sell, it is concievable that you will have eight hundred thousand gold (or more) invested in them.
The saving Grace, as i have found, is that you will get more than one breed from some of the mules. at higher levels, some will be sterile, as well as more of them being born both of the same gender, whcih means even more gold going into them to correct the problems and continue.
Each mule takes three days, from breeding to birth. that is 48 days, from gen 1 breeding to gen 9 birth. Now you start back breeding them, and it is possible it will take another 38 to 40 days.
Add on top of this, that you can only breed two pairs, in what I "think" is a 8 to 12 hour period, i have not timed it. So, you have to create and train your other character slots, or, simply stick to the few you can breed.
After each time you deliver a baby, you must level that baby, and add its points. you klik 1 time, to add one point. each pet gains between 100 and 200 points, depending on its level, so we will average that to 150. so for each pair of mules you must manually klik 300 times on the button to add the points. That comes to over two thousand four hundred kliks, not including back breeding. it takes 20 to 40 minutes to level a mule, depending on how you do it, we will average that to 30 minutes, Now your looking at 4 hours of leveling, and again, that does not include back breeding. if you are raising more than a single line of pets, you may spend two to four hours a day, just leveling your babys to get them ready to breed again.
This also does not take into consideration, pets that are lvl 43, 44, or 45. you cannot level them past 42, if you do, you lose them as a breedable pet, so there is some tence moments involved, calling your pet and running, hoping they keep up, and dont go over lvl 42.
Now, with all of this time, and effort involved, Two months of effort finally reaches the culmination point. You put your now fully maxed pets on your vendor, lets say for 400k each. that price, is breaking even money wise, but doesnt even HALF compensate for all of the time and effort... Within two days, you get 4 PM's wanting the pets, but 400k is too high, they arent worth that much will you sell them cheaper????
I know that feeling, I saw Pets selling fo that much, and I whined about it, because I too wanted them.....
As Paul harvey would say;
Now, I know, the REST of the story!!! and so do you
