I’ve added in more examples from the sprouts that were volunteered!  In some cases, I may have removed an edit or two so I could stick it in a category that was less represented.

Ally  Espurr is correct; raffle sprouts will continue to be the same (roughly the average of the parent geness).

Vysal Your baby sprout is considered within the “medium” category, though the adult sprout may/may not be in the same category!

Myla
I was curious, what would Seasons of Change count as on the level of edited-ness? You may use him as an example if you still need some volunteers to use as examples :)

Hello!
Just a quick reminder that this update will be pushed today :)

I have two question I’ve been thinking about…

1. Does the price paid affect the odds of the sprout’s species?
e.g. 1: an ineki base costs less than a drasilis base, so a “light edit” sprout between a dras+ineki geness is more likely to be an ineki?
e.g. 2: most edits cost “more” for kelph bases (tail mix n’ match is a 0PP edit for ineki and 2PP for kelph, new tails for inaki and dras start at 2PP while they start at 4PP for kelph), so a “light” edit sprout would have those price differences taken into account depending on whether the baby were an ineki/dras, or kelph?
(I hope I explained that clearly - what I mean is that, for example, tail edits would never be found in a “light edit” kelph sprout because it is considered a much “heavier” edit for kelphi vs ineki/dras)

2. Would it be acceptable, if a user were not heavily invested in receiving a flower/baby form, or had a specific artist or species in mind, or any other reason, to go through the custom queue and commission an “artistic freedom custom” with the intention of creating a child of two other pets? Or would this be frowned upon because it sidesteps the sprout queue?

e.g. 1: I go into the queue and pay 10PP for an “artistic freedom” ineki, and give the constraints “ineki either pose, meant to be a child of this geness (of a cat and a fox)” - Essentially I’m paying $50 for a pet valued at $63 by the price breakdown of sprouts.

e.g. 2: I go into the queue and pay 20PP for an “artistic freedom” pet, and give the constraints “Only X artist, upright dras OR active dog, meant to be a child of this geness (of a dras, cat, kelph, and dog), edits with the remaining PP are up to the artist. - Essentially I’m giving up getting a flower and baby form to have much more control over my “sprout”
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I know that neither of these are technically against the rules as written, but I’m not sure where they fall in terms of the spirit. I love my sprouts but I’m thinking if I go for a third it might make more sense to go through the custom queue, especially since there’s no way (yet!) to go “back” to a baby or flower form anyways. (I’ve got about the same waiting time for both queues so that’s not an issue).

But I don’t wanna do a thing that would make people annoyed or that causes a rule change and makes me feel like I “got away” with it because it wasn’t set in stone yet, y’know?

Hi Jacq! I’m happy to help provide some clarity on these questions for you!

For the first point - price does not affect the odds of a sprout’s species! The species of the sprout is left up to the artist, within the parameters of the parent geness of course (ie: a dog and a cat won’t produce a fox, drasillis, or kelph!).

In your example, a kelph tail edit would count towards the overall ‘editedness’ of your sprout, whereas a switched species tail on an ineki would not (as this would equate to a 0PP change). So yes - if the tail edit was considered ‘heavy,’ it would be unlikely to be found on a light edited kelph sprout. This is not impacted one way or the other by the value of a kelph over the value of an ineki!

For your second question - this is definitely possible! In fact, we encourage players to go through the custom queue if they’d like some degree of control over ‘sprout’ made by a geness! This is not considered queue dodging - the higher price of the sprout queue takes into account the flower and baby forms, which are not provided in the custom queue. :)

Hopefully this helps you some - let me know if there’s anything you’d like further explained!

Dove
Thanks very much! That clears up my Qs nicely. :)