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OK, OK, I know this is a bit pedantic - after all this is a *game*. :o But I really like numbers and I couldn't resist doing a spreadsheet on this following the banter we've had going back and forth (much of it mine!).

Let's make the following generous assumptions:

(1) You have all the dragons and they're all at level 15
(2) You have the gold shrines

Now you want to take your dragons to level 20. Here's what it's going to take in real numbers:

o Number of treats per dragon: 5,120,000
o Each million buys 20,000 treats
o So you need $256,000,000 for each dragon
o For all 35 dragons you will need $8,960,000,000

How long will it take to do that? We need to make some more assumption:
o Cheapest way to raise cash: breed airs and sandstorms every two hours and harvest $1,000,000 every two hours. That totals $6,000,000 a day
o Daily production from park = $10,000,000 (estimate)
o Total cash production per day = $16,000,000
o Amount requied = $8,960,000,000
o Days to raise that amount = 540
o Years to raise that amount = 1 1/2

So that's not 5 years, but remember we started with all gold shrines and all level 15 dragons.

Seems pretty daunting to me. I love playing the game, but not if all it involves the same actions over and over again for years. I might think about gold shrines at some point, who knows. And I might then try to produce one level 20 dragon. Otherwise I'm staying with the other objectives I stated earlier.

Poppy

/me thinks Poppy is clever and wise :)
 
Brooklyn11220 said:
phibes74 is right I did it and in faster time than you think it would be possible because I use the boost I always have and it's never affected my breeding for rares. And the gold shrine goal is not impossible but it is time consuming and can be done with ease and patience. Breed on!!!!

I completely agree with this statement. Level 30 here with all gold shrines just like Brooklyn. I only had a few dragons to go since my last update a couple days ago. Since then I bred those couple dragons and now have all gold shrines. I also have all my dragons level 15 (one level 20) and I'm looking forward to leveling them up to 20. It definitely can be done. It's the challenge that drives most of us.
 
/me thinks Poppy is clever and wise :)

Methinks he has far too much time on his hands. One advantage of being bed bound from spinal fusion surgery. :). I'm three weeks out now and they won't even let me start physical therapy for nine! more weeks. I do walk up to two mies a day though - inside the house - 30 laps equals one mile. Dragonvale and this community are truly a God-send. Maybe your bad luck that this is where I landed with all my time I guess. But I love it. It's going to be hard to go back to real life. Seriously. I'm having a great time.

Poppy
 
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Brooklyn11220 said:
I love this forum and all of my friends here are wonderful so I would advise to forget the calculations (which with all respect I do not agreed with) And just enjoy yourselves breeding and have a wonderful time playing and not having headaches. Forget the miscellaneous and have fun. Breed on!!!!!!

Again I completely agree. Forget the calculations. You'll find that the shrines come faster than you anticipated. All you have to do is all the dragons you get while breeding to get a rare can be leveled up before being sold. You don't have to try for the shrines to get them. When I was actually trying for the shrines, I only had about 12 to go for each shrine. I wasn't even trying. Just breeding, feeding and selling. Then boom. Shrines turn pretty gold.
 
Not sure what you mean by that bird. The quote was all squished and what not.

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Not letting me delete this post for some reason haha
 
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The Freemium model reminds me of Las Vegas. I'm always confounded on how they build those multi-billion dollar hotels there as no one admits to losing. This game has snuck up on me more than once. My wife said the other day, "You must be buying a lot of music lately." Yep, *a lot* of music. I really love music. :)

Poppy
 
phibes74 said:
Ok everyone 2 days ago I placed a pan and a plant in the ebi... I got a 48 hr dragon!!!! Well I am not the proud momma of my first rainbow dragon....... I now have 1 of them all!!!!!

I'm assuming you meant "now" and not "not". I saw that pair on your ebi the last time I collected hats. Congrats on finally getting them all!

{GC ID: royal w/cheese}. sent with my iPhone using iPF
 
I completely agree with this statement. Level 30 here with all gold shrines just like Brooklyn. I only had a few dragons to go since my last update a couple days ago. Since then I bred those couple dragons and now have all gold shrines. I also have all my dragons level 15 (one level 20) and I'm looking forward to leveling them up to 20. It definitely can be done. It's the challenge that drives most of us.

Yay! Gotta go check out your golds! Congrats! Yep, and I love a challenge! :thumbs:
 
Maneuvering Room

If you happen to visit my park, you will notice that the upper left island is a village. It has a kind of plaza in the middle and the only habitat there is a moon dragon. The reason I did this is because it gives me the flexibility to move habitats around. All I have to do is temporarily move the moon and that leaves the "plaza" open to move in another habitat. All I lose are a few pavers. When I'm done with the juggling, I move the moon back and replace the pavers.

Poppy
 

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