Dragonvale Tips & Tricks! (NO Friend Requests!)

[Fletch_smf]

Mr Poppy, Birdmaestro, sir. I know you're back into work and not going to be around here very much anymore (yeah right), but I have a question. Now that Mag/Iron's have show themselves to be a better breeding combo for cash (in the long run), I have a question about spending gems. I'm going to keep 300 gems, but more than that seems a bit excessive, don't you agree? (Don't answer that. I know your view ;-) So if I'm receiving between 4 and 10 gems a day between family and Colosseum, what's the best way to spend them? Does it make a difference if I speed up breeding or hatching? Or if I speed up 1 breeding by 4 hours or 2 breedings by 2 hours? I mean 2 gems on an air/sandstorm is pretty self explanatory, but now there's a few more choices when you're working on a 4 hour time frame ...

Lay some wisdom on me.

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[williamsbr]

I have a nice avatar photo.

It's lovely

[Segbert]

I vote that if u gift someone and they don't gift u after saying they will that all their dragons disappear and they can only breed tree dragons >

Super3551 from your statement, it sounds like you are not getting gems returned. It could be frustrating, especially when you are just starting and trying to save gems. I got my list of friends by posting here on the thread a gem for a gem. I only accepted just enough individuals that I could handle. I believe we all keep a list and exchange accordingly by first come first give basis. But we all do our best in returning a gem. If you are concerned, you may want to pm that individual and maybe he/she could give you a timeline when you will be gifted back. It's hard when you don't have gems to upgrade or speed things up. But in time you will find a nice group of friends that gift back consistently. Good luck!

[SnuggleTM]

Good Afternoon All. Got a crazy message re gems this morning that I cannot possibly do a thing with. I know I am only missing one gem. It was provided approximately 13 to 16 hours ago (from the time of this post). Was that you Jack?? Not sure what time you are sending them to me at the moment. If it wasn't Jack and it was someone else, please let me know so that I can return the favour. How on Earth we are supposed to figure problems like this out, I don't know. Please fix this BFS.

Bugger, I can't upload the pic but it is halfway across the screen and says 'Your Friends - Trinity' followed by a big blank space that is incredibly unhelpful!

[angel2all]

I always give back a gem for a gem, it may not be the same day but normally within a few days you should get one back from me. I try to keep my friends list small for this reason. I figure it takes some people longer then others depending on their friends list. I will say that there is one person on my friends list I have never received a gem from, but I haven't taken them off (I use them for party hats) and still send them gems.

The beauty of this game is you can play it so many ways. Receiving gems is just an added bonus and for me it does not effect how I play the game.

Just my opinion.

Happy Breeding
Brandy

I hope you guys saw the remainder of my reply as I was totally kidding around. I would never wish that on anyone!

And I too have gotten the "and others" message 3 times since playing this game in December. (Those 3 times were when my grandfather was in the hospital in February.)

While I may only have 38 DV friends right now, I appreciate each and every one, and like you I do not trade with them all. I only admire their islands and collect party hats. I am almost always sitting and waiting for my gem tree to refresh so I can give away some more gems to very wonderful and friendly players!

Please do not think that I would dare with-hold or be mean to someone for not returning a gem! As I have stated before, you never know what is going on in someone's life behind Dragonvale, and I personally respect that!

Thanks to you all for your help tips and support!

April GCID Servant 16:9 (daughter Allison GCID Angel2all; daughter Amanda GCID Servant to one)

[VDL04]

Ok. A little off topic, but ive been playing draw something for a while now and have accumulated lots of coins and colours. I just went to draw something (lol) and all my colours are missing! I remember someone here saying they had the same problem. How did u fix it?
PS/ nearly have 50mill dc in like 4 days very happy with myself

Tiffany xoxo

[Segbert]

Ok. A little off topic, but ive been playing draw something for a while now and have accumulated lots of coins and colours. I just went to draw something (lol) and all my colours are missing! I remember someone here saying they had the same problem. How did u fix it?
PS/ nearly have 50mill dc in like 4 days very happy with myself

Tiffany xoxo

Love loved the burger drawing. It looked so good, it made me want one.

[Birdmaestro]

I always give back a gem for a gem, it may not be the same day but normally within a few days you should get one back from me. I try to keep my friends list small for this reason. I figure it takes some people longer then others depending on their friends list. I will say that there is one person on my friends list I have never received a gem from, but I haven't taken them off (I use them for party hats) and still send them gems.

The beauty of this game is you can play it so many ways. Receiving gems is just an added bonus and for me it does not effect how I play the game.

Just my opinion.

Happy Breeding
Brandy

I'm going to join the Fletch School of Gems. I have almost 200 - generous - friends. And, while I keep track of gems received, there is no way I will ever catch up in this lifetime. My backlog is over 300 gems. I really don't want to appear anti-social, and I really like the custom of giving and receiving gems, but it's hopelessly lopsided.

Poppy

[Skaala2903]

Good Afternoon All. Got a crazy message re gems this morning that I cannot possibly do a thing with. I know I am only missing one gem. It was provided approximately 13 to 16 hours ago (from the time of this post). Was that you Jack?? Not sure what time you are sending them to me at the moment. If it wasn't Jack and it was someone else, please let me know so that I can return the favour. How on Earth we are supposed to figure problems like this out, I don't know. Please fix this BFS.

Bugger, I can't upload the pic but it is halfway across the screen and says 'Your Friends - Trinity' followed by a big blank space that is incredibly unhelpful!

Hey Snuggle, i gave you a gem today.. If you already have me in your return gem list, ignore this..

[Birdmaestro]

Mr Poppy, Birdmaestro, sir. I know you're back into work and not going to be around here very much anymore (yeah right), but I have a question. Now that Mag/Iron's have show themselves to be a better breeding combo for cash (in the long run), I have a question about spending gems. I'm going to keep 300 gems, but more than that seems a bit excessive, don't you agree? (Don't answer that. I know your view ;-) So if I'm receiving between 4 and 10 gems a day between family and Colosseum, what's the best way to spend them? Does it make a difference if I speed up breeding or hatching? Or if I speed up 1 breeding by 4 hours or 2 breedings by 2 hours? I mean 2 gems on an air/sandstorm is pretty self explanatory, but now there's a few more choices when you're working on a 4 hour time frame ...

Lay some wisdom on me.

Fletch...

It depends on how frequently you access your park. From your previous posts I understand that your frequency is perhaps four times a day about four hours apart? If so, I would recommend the following, starting with the last visit before you go to bed:

Visit #4: You will have 2 freshly bred eggs in your hatchery. I would spend 8 gems to accelerate 2 more in order to fill the hatchery, then fill both caves with breeding dragons.

Visits 1, 2 & 3: On your first visit of the day, you will have 4 eggs ready to hatch and 2 ready to go into the hatchery. I would settle for breeding 2 in the caves and having 2 incubating in the hatchery. On visits 2 & 3 you will have 2 eggs ready to hatch and 2 ready to move to the hatchery.

This gives you a yield of 15,000,000 gold coins a day from breeding at a nominal cost of 8 gems.

That's at least a point of departure for your brilliant mathematical mind to evaluate. You may well come up with a better scenario. Thanks for asking.

I am going back to work tomorrow (Monday). But I'll be around - probably lurking more than posting.

Poppy