As I get increasingly active in the real world I find I'm sweeping for coins less frequently. I've crossed my 3.1 hour threshold that determines whether the CGCF or Rares is the more productive, so I've gone to mostly Rares (24 of 28).
I suspect my activity level will decrease here as well, but I will try to monitor things and chip in if I think I have a tactic that might help, especially if BFS comes out with a major update. At the moment I'm stuck at level 30 with at least three of every dragon at level 15, all of the gold shrines, and a sense that I understand the game pretty well thanks to the sharing here. There's really nothing to do but sweep for coins and continually breed Airs & Sandies, which is pretty monotonous.
So it's a perfect time to ease my way back into 406 Strategies. The timing is also good because the target market for our Internet marketing services, small and local businesses, are starting to wake up to fact that by using the Internet to market locally they can reduce their budget and increase return so they are more receptive to our message. I do write an active blog at the 406 Strategies website that is followed by several thousand people. It was put on hold when I had the surgery and I anticipate resuming it next week. I talk mainly about small and local business marketing but probably to no ones surprise I do ramble at times. I'm sure there will a blog or two about the freemium game model generally and Dragonvale and Backflip Studios specifically. I'll alert you here when those are published.
Regardless of how much or how little I participate here, this kind, sharing, gentle community has been a gift from God for me during some challenging times. This is a chapter in my life that I will never forget. I love you all (even Fletch).
See you around the Vale,
Poppy
