I like Thylacine2's Idea, I also like Starboard Aussies' Idea, but I like Thylacine2's better, however Thylacine2's idea could cause lag, and it would probably be difficult or complex to code... I'm not sure though.

Oh, I see.<br /> Sorry for being dumb. I do that often.

Saxon, we do not see it as anyone has "cheated" - the base trial system was simply not designed to accommodate TPs above cap. This has made it very unfair because we let it get so far, because we didn't see it hurting that much... when it really has started to.

There are a lot of people with aviator caps who were simply carried away with the race for the highest tp. Is taking advantage of the circumstances cheating? If so, then almost everyone has cheated except maybe the hermit who lives by himself on a mountain somewhere and only eats beans and rice. You know what I mean! I just think that the whole thing got too out of hand. I don't think anyone cheated.

People with Aviator Caps kind of cheated from what I know.

What if the tp was lowered to the cap, however, to repay users for the effort of raising a dog's tp to, say, 22000, like Rosencrown, for every 1000 tp that the dog lost when lowered the user would recieve 1 bone. Obviously the details can change, it could be $100k for each 100 tp, or $1 for 1 tp, but the important part is the idea. Users with over the cap dogs would be payed in return for all the effort that was wasted.

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Are TPs the main thing that matters? If so, I think that you should up the influence of things like drive, speed and personality factors.

As I think about this more... Yeah, the entire goal of alacrity for probably the majority of players is to breed the highest TP possible. When the cap was put in place, people reached it almost immediately. Now, the majority of the player base has 'won' the game, by owning one or more maxed capped dogs. Maybe the answer is not to get rid of OTC dogs, but to remove the cap entirely, but tweak the way that TP and breeding work. Perhaps a system in which TP gets exponentially harder and harder to gain per point (instead of how it is now, where the more points you have, the more you get.) So that in theory, there is no cap, but in practice, the TP of a dog is equal to the effort put into it, but dogs in general are not too far apart. Also perhaps make the TP of 'lazy' dogs slide backwards, so that it not only requires the time to train, but constant effort to keep up an impressive TP. Dogs that don't trial, or 'practice' their skills would loose their skills. I think this would make the game fair again, more effort=more TP, instead of more time=more TP.

Cap raised ? No...thanks. That'd probably create more problems than fix most. Clever idea though, never would have though of that.

What if the cap was raised instead of the TP lowered? The new cap could be 9999.99, then those people with dogs that are over the current cap could keep them and still get to trial them and breed them. No dog could ever get past the new cap because the aviator caps would be recoded, and a new generation of breeding would be introduced for those who breed for high tp. Everyone would win.