Help! I fell into CS hell and I can't get out!

No cap, but I've received a few asks about people wanting the iceberg explanation/breakdown. Because of this, I plan on writing a Google doc to explain each tier.

Not sure when it'll release, but I promise to get this up before 2024.

I admit that this blog was left to rot on purpose. The CS userbase shrank a lot and I felt a bit bored of the site. I only started to play CS again recently out of nostalgia.

No shit Sherlock! Therapy is what's been helping my social anxiety, but it's assholes like you who's ruining the site for those who go there to ESCAPE.

** DO NOT HARASS ANYONE WHO’S IN THIS **

On the front page, I saw a thread saying: “Mothdog OTA”. As someone who likes character designs, I took a look. 

Well, that’s when I stumbled across this. 

Here’s the comparison: 

The adopt, and in the description; it has nothing in it saying it was a knock off of the species Bluesardoyx owned. It was a 100% original design that  Bluesardoyx didn’t like because it was a hybrid of a moth and a dog; a pure coincidence.  https://www.chickensmoothie.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=4405022

The closed species: https://www.chickensmoothie.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=4365698

In my eyes, I don’t see anything similar. It was a pure coincidence and the person going after OP was blowing it out of proportion. The posts were removed pretty quickly.

I’m still kickin <3 Been busy due to what’s going on in the world right now, and pretty much hit me with a lot of stress and financially. 

I hope everyone is being safe, please remember to:

Late reply, but I have a l o t to say about the FTT. To answer your questions, I divided up in two parts: What are your thoughts on the ftt helpers these days?: It’s a big mess.  Unhealthy Demand is starting to plaque the site, and pretty much demonizing healthy/natural demand. The ‘helpers’ are fueling the fire, by taking a one-time willing overpay as the new price and claiming it’s now worth that much. That’s... not how values work. 

There’s a difference between willing overpay and actual values. Just because a pet fetches something really high once, doesn’t mean it’s now worth that. For a thread that’s ran by mods, they’re doing a very very poor job keeping it in check. The advice on there to drive up values is pretty much scamming, by saying a low rarity pet is worth so many VR’s and OMGSR’s. (Aka the shima Longtail) 

If you want to help on that thread, then...

Do. Your. Research. Without research and not telling the difference between willing overpay and values.... you don’t KNOW your values at all and you shouldn’t be posting. Don’t just use one source, use MULTIPLE. Find different trades and figure out the MEDIUM, not the fucking HIGHEST. 

Tl:dr; The FTT trade is a fucking mess because people don’t do their research or exercise common sense. Or too lazy to find the answers for their ‘advice’ and think it won’t mess up the economy. 

Sorry for the late response! So basically, a user named Kittyalia tried to remake the discontinued rares list. Lots of people protested and explained that the original creators of said list told NOT to remake one like it. 

They didn’t let the community have much input, except for those who supported their idea. Kitty also planned on putting the shima LT on it, which would create a MASSIVE greedy demand issue. 

Thankfully Kittyalia abandoned the new list, and discontinued apparently. We were pretty damn close to a catastrophic event of history repeating itself.