Why are females so much more desirable than males?

[jhall1468]

You buy/trade for/whatever a luecisitc male. Breeding him to a bunch of normals will give you some nice effing co-doms. Like a black eye to proven normal breeders gives you a bunch of sweet fires or a blue eye'd mojave/lesser cross to a normal can have a load of potential. Am I missing something here or are most of you who breed trying to come up with some nice females to breed to a proven male you've already got. This is why I'm sorta hoping my unsexed normal turns out to be female.

Your example proves why females are worth more. Like you said, a single lucy male will provide a whole bunch of co-doms. So you need fewer males in your collection than females. This is where supply and demand take up. Using your example further, let's pretend that you end up with 12 Lesser Platinums from your example above. 6 are male, 6 are female. Now, you already have 1 lucy, so why keep 6 male Lessers? Odds are, you will hold back most (if not all) of the females to breed back to dad, and you will sell most (if not all) of the males. So the supply of males in our little micro-economy is +6 and the supply of females is 0.

Demand for females is much higher than males because of the situation above. You only need 1 lesser male to breed to many lesser females. So demand for your lesser males are lower.

The end result is simple. The market supply for lesser males is high, but the market demand for lesser males is low. The market supply for lesser females is low, but the market demand for lesser females is very high. Prices always reflect the markets needs, so males are going to be cheaper than females.

Now this doesn't always ring true... market demands for rare morphs are high regardless of gender, so you'll often see males and females going for the same prices, but I simply borrowed from your example .