Dragonvale Tips & Tricks! (NO Friend Requests!)

[ilUli]

Fab thank ooooo I just got a 48 hour with cold and fire fly so fingers crossed is sand storm a purple egg with silver diamonds? Xx

Yes, did you get one?

 

[Cox780770]

Thanks Vicky! It took me forever to get my first moon and that one is my favorite dragon so it was worth the wait! Now I want another and am hoping my current 48 hour breeding will turn out to be a Moon too!

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Fingers crossed for you x I'm also after a second moon but I have had to put that on hold while getting those pans for my Gold factory lol x x x

vicky x. GCID dragonville10

 

[Cox780770]

Fab thank ooooo I just got a 48 hour with cold and fire fly so fingers crossed is sand storm a purple egg with silver diamonds? Xx

Congrats on your 48 HR and yes that is a sandstorm egg did you get one if so congrats on that too lol x x x

vicky x. GCID dragonville10

 

[Birdmaestro]

What food are u using??? I am doing peppers and bean... And mushrooms

Sent from. Tricia xoxo

Food is vexing. The Pumpermelons at $15,000 are A LOT cheaper than the high volume purchases. But the high level of cash flow that I was generating necessitated that I use the bigger volume purchases, mainly $500,000 and $1,000,00. Anything lower and the system was swamped, even when I had the maximum number of farms. So I pared it down to four farms and used the bigger volumes. Kind of a contradiction by the game designer. They want you to be impatient and buy gems to speed things up, but when you do you are heavily penalized. I forget the math but as I recall it's about 2 1/2 times as expensive to buy treats in larger volumes. It's a real choke point. Poor design methinks.

 

[ilUli]

I was away from home all day today, and I switched my iPhone to my iPad account. When I had some downtime during a photoshoot I went and collected some party hats. I never noticed that before, maybe because I don't really ever collect the hats on my phone, but the friends names don't show when the list is displayed. It's like they are covered by the list.

Is that always like that? I thought when BFS made the change a long time ago they changed it for all devices? It's so hard trying to remember whose park one is in. Not to mention that my eyes felt really strained. Kudos to all you iPhone players, my hat's off to you!!!

 

[skaterboy69]

Well got called to work earlier today so didnt get as much coins collected as I could have today so im still at $33million then Im taking my gf out tomorrow since we both have the,day off so were gonna go out and eat nd go watch a movie so it might take me a lil longer than I expected to get that $50million island

 

[skaterboy69]

If 5 ppl on my gc account that I have still have a.gem to send can I get one I will make sure u 5 ppl get a gem back tomorrow.

 

[karma_musings]

Hey all. I had a really busy last several days and hardly had time to collect coins, much less check in here.

However, my good news is I now have a sun - hooray!! So, two rares at the moment, sun and moon. Having NO luck at all trying for rainbow or panlong, using any of the combos/levels that have been suggested. I keep getting other hybrids instead. Sigh... I broke down and bought a bag of gems (10 bucks!) and trying now to decide if I should use some to again upgrade my HC, or to buy a gem tree. Mostly I'm speeding up disappointing breeds, to try again.

Hope you're all doing well, and happy valentine's, everyone!

 

[Birdmaestro]

Some Math on Buying Treats

I mentioned earlier that the Pumpermelons at 800 treats for $15,000 were a much better deal than the $500K, $1M and $5M purchases. I checked my notes and the cost is 2.67 times higher using high volume purchases. I think we determined that the cost in treats to take a dragon from level 1 to level 15 is about 367,000. Here's what it costs in gold coins using Pumpermelons vs. the volume options:

0 Pumpermelons: $6,881,250
0 High Volume Options: $18,350,000

Again, you would think a company that makes their living from impatience on the part of their players wouldn't penalize them when they speed things up. It's either a design flaw or a sucker punch.

Poppy

 

[Fletch_smf]

Food is vexing. The Pumpermelons at $15,000 are A LOT cheaper than the high volume purchases. But the high level of cash flow that I was generating necessitated that I use the bigger volume purchases, mainly $500,000 and $1,000,00. Anything lower and the system was swamped, even when I had the maximum number of farms. So I pared it down to four farms and used the bigger volumes. Kind of a contradiction by the game designer. They want you to be impatient and buy gems to speed things up, but when you do you are heavily penalized. I forget the math but as I recall it's about 2 1/2 times as expensive to buy treats in larger volumes. It's a real choke point. Poor design methinks.

Food break down is at Treat Farms - DragonVale Wiki

Back when I first started the game I couldn't work out why it was costing me more to wait longer to buy less food. I eventually worked out that the benefit I was getting (apart from not having to reorder the food so frequently) was that the XP was getting cheaper. The loss of value in food was being offset by the XP I was earning to help me level up.

The huge treat farms allow you to save on time at the expense of XP and value because when you're at the level of needing to generate 10 000 food in a minute, you're not so concerned about earning the XP and leveling up, especially if you're at level 30.

If there's been a mis-step in the treat farms, it's the fact that the 3 foods added to the Huge Treat Farm have the same cost to buy, and the same XP received. There is no benefit to making the "slower" food, aside from not having to make it every minute. And even if you're making 4.5 million coins in an hour, 60 seconds later that can all be food with 9 treat farms. The million and 5 million purchases should be a bit better value imo.

 

[TommyB]

Some Math on Buying Treats
It's either a design flaw or a sucker punch.
Poppy

Sucker punch. The price per treat is ridiculously good at the low quantity levels, and there's no reward for buying bulk at all, when you take into account time to grow. Surprised this discussion hasn't arisen before.

Having awful breeding luck and frustrating days. Boo.

 

[GT500Girl]

Wow, I just reached level 30 and immediately bought my last island. 100,000,000 gold coins went POOF. What a sickening feeling that is!

On a positive note, I finally got my second sun, so I was able to buy the habitat for it. The egg will be ready tomorrow

I feel like I finally completed everything I wanted to complete. The gold shrines will come when they come...gold production is in full swing

Wow! Congrats on level 30, your island and your second sun! That is great news! :thumbs:

 

[Fletch_smf]

Some Math on Buying Treats

I mentioned earlier that the Pumpermelons at 800 treats for $15,000 were a much better deal than the $500K, $1M and $5M purchases. I checked my notes and the cost is 2.67 times higher using high volume purchases. I think we determined that the cost in treats to take a dragon from level 1 to level 15 is about 367,000. Here's what it costs in gold coins using Pumpermelons vs. the volume options:

0 Pumpermelons: $6,881,250
0 High Volume Options: $18,350,000

Again, you would think a company that makes their living from impatience on the part of their players wouldn't penalize them when they speed things up. It's either a design flaw or a sucker punch.

Poppy

The upshot is, if you spend money on gems to speed up the lower cost treats, the time is quicker and the value is better. Actually if you spend money on coins it's way better value. Spend $1 will get you a million coins (at level 24, it might be better value at a higher level) which is 20K food. $1 will get you 25 gems. If you buy 300 food and speed up the time with gems to be instant harvest you will get 3600 treats.

 

[GT500Girl]

Hello Everyone! I've been lurking around here for the last several weeks and decided it was about time I introduced myself! I am hopelessly addicted to DV so it's nice to have someplace to chat about it with people who can totally relate! I have learned so much from everyone's posts... all the breeding tips, Poppy's gold coin factory (haha), decorating tips, etc.. thank you all for your insightful posts! I'm afraid I've been lurking for so long that I feel that I've gotten to know most of you so you'll have to excuse me if I just jump right in. I've also already sent friend requests to many of you so if you've wondered who that was... lol.. now you know! LOL! And if I missed sending you a request, feel free to send me one. I don't have a gem tree yet but I return every gem that I receive.

I'm on level 23 right now and after many, many weeks of trying, I finally got my Moon!!!! I now have at least one of every dragon! I got my Moon with Love and Cold and when they finished breeding, I stuck them back in and got another 48 hour dragon, that I was just sure was going to be another Moon! It wasn't, it was a Sun (my 3rd sun)... it's currently incubating now. Stuck Love and Cold back in the cave and got a 12 hour.... turned out to be another Frostfire which is also incubating now. Soooooo, lol... stuck the same pair back in and got another 48 hour.... so we'll have to wait and see what it turns out to be. Anyone else have that kind of luck with this combo?

Welcome to the forum and addiction! :thumbs: Glad you joined us!

Yay on your moon! Wow! That is really crazy with love and cold! You going to keep trying them for awhile? I have been working on raising cash and the golds so I have not been breeding random dragons like that. Let us know what this newest one is.

 

[Segbert]

After about a week of utter frustration trying to get my second Panlong, I finally got it! Blazing (10) / Mud (4).

It seems so trivial to complain about not being able to get this or that. I have got to change how I look at this game. lol and its not even a competitive game.

Thanks to those that have kept encouraging me to keep going. (Tricia, GT500Girl, Smurfette)

Everybody here is awesome! I wish everyone the best!

That's great! Congrats on your second Pan and thank you for putting the rare list together. I refer to it ALL the time.:thumbs: