Thread: Chicken Flipping Prevention Suggestions

Malik, a ash and silver chicken with a lace pattern

2 months ago (edited 1 month ago )

🔒 Chicken Flipping Prevention Suggestions

Chicken flipping: the act of buying a cheap chicken off the farmhouse and immediately (within a day or so) selling it at an increased price

Today, there was a discussion in the discord about it; I'm putting it here so people can comment on it and so it's easier to keep track of the suggestions that were made

My suggestion was to add a farmhouse cooldown to chickens bought, but personally, I feel that may complicate and make things too complex for just a simple website
@MouseDemon suggested having a "Price Bought For" in the ownership log, though they mentioned that would require people to check the log

What does everyone else think?

Check the beginning of the discussion here, and when the suggestions started happening here (both links leading to discord messages)

What's your opinion on Chicken Flipping?

Poll created by LvEx

No opinion/Don't care

Don't like it/Wish it didn't happen

I chicken flip (

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circlejourney

鸡nai, a bark and fuchsia chicken with a half-lace pattern

丽樱, a white and pink chicken with a neck-speckle pattern

新年快乐, a crimson and orange chicken with a bar pattern

slunky, a bark and rose chicken with a neck-speckle pattern

2 months ago • Reply

I would not mechanically prevent flipping, because sometimes people buy a chicken by accident before realising it doesn't fit their needs, and I want to allow them to put it back in the marketplace.

I can add buying farmhouse price to ownership logs! I think that could help.