Dragonvale Tips & Tricks! (NO Friend Requests!)

[gypsy_purple]

Sun

I really thought it was a moon for you this time

 

[Flattsfanatic71]

Noooo I am so jealous, that have never worked for me. Congratulation on amazing breeding successes!!! I will have to try that combo love and cold.

Forgot to Welcome you to the forum! Still somewhat envious . . . .

LOL! After many weeks of having no luck, I must admit, it feels pretty good! Let me know how that combo works out for you! And thank you for the welcome... I'm loving this forum!

 

[ilUli]

I also play on iPhone and it only gives the gcid. It is displayed on screen at top left when you are collecting though.

Hazel from my iPhone

That is interesting. So you can see the GCID while the list is up? I just checked again, and I can't see the name then. On the iPad I can.

 

[ilUli]

More on Food & Treat Farms

Here's the problem...

The Super Giant Deluxe Treat Farms (or whatever they call them) are indeed a Super Giant Deluxe RIP-OFF. Not only do you receive tremendous penalty of 2.67 times more expensive to buy in quantity, you pay $750,000 (!) for one of them as opposed to $25,000 for the mid-sized farm.

But...

Even if you have the maximum number of mid- sized farms and produce Pumpermelons, the maximum you can produce in one day (without using GOBS of gems) is 35,200. It takes 367,000 to level up one dragon from 1-15, which means it would take you 10 1/2 days to level up ONE dragon. Multiply times 50 for a gold shrine and that's 525 days for a set of gold shrines. Since at this time you can't do all of them in less than three sets, it would take 1,575 days to do them all. That's 4.3 years!

They pretty much force you to pay the penalty and use the Super Giant Deluxe RIP-OFF farms. Pretty sneaky.

I was toying with the idea of developing a "freemium" game like DV as the model is intriguing. It must be very lucrative. I have done some research and looked at a number of other games. They all operate on what I call the Greed Scale, depending on what kind of time settings they use, what it costs to speed things up, ratios between various components, etc. The sense I have is that DV has set the dial on their Greed Scale pretty high. I know if I ever did develop a game that I would dial it way back. It is a great game though, which is probably why they can get away with it, as there are much better values out there. Oregon Trail for example.

Poppy

Yes! I would love to see and play a game developed by you. Heck, I'd love to help you develop it

 

[ilUli]

I'll speak in general terms rather than specific numbers.

While this a fantasy game, I believe that the rules should be grounded in social convention. In my lifetime I cannot recall a single instance where the per unit cost went up when I bought larger volumes.

I don't have a big quarrel with paying more for the high production farms - tools of production are an investment. But then I expect a return on investment. I can't recall a single instance where larger production facilities did not reduce the per unit cost by economies of scale.

So the approach by BFS offends my sensibilities and piques my spidey sense - it feels like they are exploiting their most valuable players rather than rewarding them.

Poppy

Compare it to riding your bike from LA to San Diego vs driving your car. Use the bike and you'll spend a bit of money on Gatorade, but it takes you forever and a day. Drive your car and you have to pay (a lot!!!) for gas, but you get to SD in no time.

I think it is reasonable that you have to pay a premium on fast delivery of huge quantities of food. It bites, but that's part of the fun. I decided a while ago that we all must have a masochistic streak in us, lol

 

[ilUli]

I've done this too, but it did not replenish my gem tree 30 minutes after my 24 hrs.

I noticed this too. Sometimes the gem tree is late. It's the same as names on the friends list being blacked out too long. For me shutting down the game helps here too.

 

[ilUli]

Im stil with no rainbow dragons! Lvl 25, have 2 moon and 2 sun, no rainbow! Why?
Gc slownhappy

I feel for you! Maybe it makes it easier if you think of it as that you still have a challenge in the game. I didn't get my second rainbow until I was at level 27 or thereabouts (way after I got the second Panlong, and I've playing the game since its very beginning). And I just got my second sun the other day, just before I reached level 30. I honestly think that despite all the moaning and groaning I did for always getting moons instead, I loved the struggle. Soooo glad it's finally over though

 

[ilUli]

Sun

Don't be disappointed. I know from experience how sucky it feels, but it keeps you in the hunt, keeps the game 'interesting'

Better luck next time

 

[GT500Girl]

Yay! Got all my shrines to silver. I'm done with shrines for now, not interested in making all that food for golds. But now I have to get a moon. I've been trying snow/scorch for 3 days nonstop with no luck...so frustrated!

Yay! Congrats on your silvers! Keep at it...you will get it! :thumbs:

 

[ilUli]

Well a this time I have 2 3hr breeds and I have a sun frost fire and a snow egg in my,hatchery all gonna end up getting sold bc I have no room for them, need the money they sell for, and have 2 of each besides sun dragon I have 5 of them

There's something not very random about this game. Like there's a bias towards certain rares. You keep getting all these suns, I was drowning in moons. This just can't be completely random, don't you think?

 

[Segbert]

LOL! After many weeks of having no luck, I must admit, it feels pretty good! Let me know how that combo works out for you! And thank you for the welcome... I'm loving this forum!

Morning,

I did try your combo early this morning and I have a moon in the hatchery. I brought gems to sped the incubation period. In addition to producing two bugs, but that's fine as I just completed the silver fire shrine Thank you for posting this combo.

 

[Segbert]

There's something not very random about this game. Like there's a bias towards certain rares. You keep getting all these suns, I was drowning in moons. This just can't be completely random, don't you think?

Possible, like you I only produce moons too. I have only four not eight.

 

[ilUli]

I don't think anyone here would quit the game and if they did it would be sad but I have obtained everything the Dragonvale game has to offer and I'm still here and plan to be because I've accomplished all goals it doesn't take away from the fact that it's a wonderfully designed game and I really have fun playing and even though I go Coo coo until the next update is released I'm still here a Dragonvale addict till the very end Breed on!!!!!

Brooklyn, do you still compete in the colosseum? Do you think the xp keep accumulating?

 

[GT500Girl]

I'm gonna just breed for the rainbow for now. The golds will come when the Pans start making babies lol
Once you set up a Pan Gold Factory, then pretty much there is only one thing to do....go for gold.

Start saving for the 100 million island! With the Pan Factories, 100 million isnt very much at all. I already started and I'm only level 28 and WITHOUT Pans, I have 180 million saved up.

My DV confession is that I set my alarm at 11 pm each night for what I like to refer to as "Dragontime". Its when my colosseum is finished, and all my 24 hr dragonfruit is harvested. Most of the time I'm alone and can work on my DV in peace.

I hear ya. I'm only going to have 2 pair of panlongs I decided. I have no desire to rush the gold as they will give me something to do in between updates. Listen to me...I'm assuming I will get the new dragons fairly quick when updates come out. I shouldn't do that after the pain panlong was for me!

Yeh, it won't take long. I had over 300 million saved before the last big gold update....and that was with no panlongs.
Lol too funny! All of my stuff for the most part is in the morning...my gems get later and later though. It's really irritating me. I have not been up in the middle of the night last night. First time in awhile. I am sick again! Ugh! I've spent most of 2012 sick. I've about had it. Anyways I seem to have this internal clock. Every 4 hrs that I'm asleep I automatically wake up to check for gems. Of course since I didn't get up last night I'm gonna pay because I got that dreaded message.

Well I hope you rainbow comes fast! Good luck!

 

[GT500Girl]

Oh, and the Panlongs were a HUGE game changer. They enable you to cover four habitats at once, which was unprecedented. And once you raise them to level 15 and optimize them they produce at a prodigious rate - in the habitat with the highest cap - that was unprecedented. And another big game changer was the Hibernation Cave. And a third was the Love dragon covering three habitats.

I suspect BFS listens and knows what they're doing. They heard the chatter on the DV Wiki and here about the enormity of the challenge to get gold shrines and made it much easier with those three things. The last thing they want is for people to get discouraged and quit.

Fearless Prediction: The next update will include items that continue to make it easier to acquire gold shrines.

Poppy

Yep and just my luck as I spent so much trying to work on golds. This is exactly why I decided to hit the brakes snd slow it down a bit! :thumbs: I always get ahead of myself...I guess I learned patience in one aspect, but in one I didn't...but I'm working on that now.