The Mating Rules

[pine]

As the site is losely related to Warriors with mostly realistic cats, why do we have such strict mating rules? In the series, there were "just for kits" pairings. If you've ever tried to keep a she-cat in heat in the house, you know they really want to get out there and do it. Heck, even some people don't wait that long. Tom cats just tend to follow their nose whereever. . . . I could see holding back from cross-clan liasons, but wouldn't it be considered a sign of loyalty to bear kits for your clan?

[cursedweirdo]

urr, perhaps it's because even in the warrior's series,there aren't so many cross-clan matings involved. I mean, if we'd allow that many cross clan kits, we wouldn't need four clans anymore. Yeah. we're trying to based it on a realistic warriors rp, but at the same time, since we're rping them ourselves, thus giving them logic. And I guess if clan cats had logic, they would tend to follow their own set of rules, which is their warrior code, that states that cats are to be loyal to their own clan and no cross clan matings allowed.

On the other hand, if we allowed clan cats to mate 'just for kits', we're gonna end up with too many kits up for adoption and no one to adopt them. Besides, humans might go out of their way for fun, but not because they want to bear children XD They want to bear children with the ones they love and thus giving concept to the current mating rules XD

[[Ridge] of [Sapphire] light]

IT is exactly as Dampee says. It we don't have strict rules we will have to many kits...and no one to play them. And we have strict rules on the mates thing because we want it to be realistic.even in the books. The cats didn't just fall in love. they were acquaintances, friends, close friends and then mates. It's not because we don't want to have people having mates everywhere...and then...well you get the idea...it just makes it more realistic, and it slows things down allowing us to keep up better with things and keep all the kits and stuff down. does that make sense?

[pine]

Yup. (I agreed with the rules by way of cross-clan mates by the way.) I just don't really see eye-to-eye with the others 'cause. . .well, I can be very. . .well, given the chance I wouldn't follow those mating rule in my own life, OK!!! *turns bright red* In the Warriors series, especially in the earlier books, they had lots of unamed kits in the nursery at any given point, but a high kit mortality. That was their solution, but I get what your saying. I agree on them needing to be good friends 100%.

I think we should probably have a higher kit mortality rate here too, since it's locked in perpetual winter.

[cursedweirdo]

So you want them to die faster? =w=. I don't think its urm... ethical to force people to have at least one dead kit in every litter, won't be fair to the rpers i guess. =w=. But if you want to have a cat that just flirts around and stuff, go ahead. He/she just can't have a million kits in her lifetime, whats the point in flirting then XD In the earlier warrior books the authors didn't really give much thought to the clan members and family trees. So it's a little off. But we do accept kits which have no certain parents in the clans... for instance, you can make a kit who's parents died or don't really exist. Not really important anyway.

[pine]

Yeah, forcing people to kill kits off wouldn't really work, but are litters in feral cat colonies usually as large as some of ours are anyway? Great, I'm trying to start debating. Ah well. Thanks for staying here and tolerating my insolence.

[cursedweirdo]

Oh no, I love a good debate XD

Yeah, you're right. Litters in normal cat societies are not as big as our ones here, some of the members senior enough to breed their own kits (lol at pun) recognize that, but I guess it won't be much fun putting up an adoption for 1-2 kits, whom is most likely going to be played by you and your mate anyway XD

[[Ridge] of [Sapphire] light]

-nods- but that is why we have to have such strict rules, while it is lossely based on reality, there is no way we could actually hav it as a reality with out it becoming all we did...did that make any snese? and I love a good debate too.

[--|Sootie|--]

*cackles* I love killing kits. I agree with most point made but I do think the litters are too large. I can also understand that 1-2 kit litters wouldn't be enough. but I dont really have enough internet to get into a debate with you guys.

[Mossmask]

Although I don't think it would be considered part of the debate, I do have a random question about the mating rules as well (hope you don't mind me renting some space on your thread, Candlinatah).

The fourth point in the mating rules says that the parents PM Apple if/when they decide they want to have kits, and then Apple will be awesome enough to post up the due date and such, and when the due date comes will post the stats of the kits.

What I'm confused about is do we have any say in how many kits the parents have? Like, do we just PM Apple, "We want kits!" and then when the due date comes Apple (and presumably the other staff members) will decide how many and what genders they are? Or do we PM Apple with specific stats of the kits that the two RPers want? Perhaps we give Apple options, like, "We want two to three kits, at least one of each gender," and then Apple takes it from there?

Just curious. ^^

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[[Ridge] of [Sapphire] light]

I've talked to Apple and What we've come up with is that the parents will PM the leader of the clan in which the kits will be in, (if they are the leaders kits, or are rogue or Loner they should PM Apple), with we want two to three kits or whatever. Than that leader or Apple will come up with the stats of the kits, Male female, dead alive and what they look like, due date. The leader/Apple will them return the PM to the parent(s) telling them the due date. On that day the leader/Apple, will post the stats, and the parents can name the kits, and the adoptions can begin. Is that clear? Did it make sense? I hope it did...

[SILHOUETTE]

Actually I'll be posting something up in the admin board for us to look at; but pretty much the stats will be decided by dice; if you get one kit that dies right after birth it's not our problem, is it? That's life, life is taking a chance and not everything turns out perfectly. So there you are, that's how we decide the litters. ;]

[--|Sootie|--]

When exactly does this come into play? What if there were kits planned from on the old site and they had a specific due date already decided? For example, Twinkletoes and Shadowmoon's two kits were planned to be born the same day as they all arrived int heir new camps? Me and Shadowbella had thought of doing this on the old site.

[SILHOUETTE]

IF YOU HAD THIS PLANNED FROM THE OLD SITE THEN IT'S OKAY IM LOOKING THIS NOW KTHNXBYE