With the new month, comes a new installment of POTM. It works like this:
You find a post you like and you nominate it for Post of the Month. You do this by quoting the post and adding the comment "Post of the Month" or if you think you can't pull it off, simply "POTM". A Mod will move your POTM Reply to this thread. Conversely you can right click on the "Link to Post" at the bottom of each post and Copy Link Location. Then post in this thread with "Post of the Month" (or "POTM" if you think you can), right click in the thread and Paste. You cannot nominate your own post ... I mean c'mon ... that's just really lame ... no matter how cool/funny/clever/poignant you think you were. Each post can only be nominated once. The first person to do so gets the nod. On the 1st of next month (or thereabouts, I mean, we're all working folks here, well most of us) we'll make a Poll with all the nominated threads and everyone here will be invited to vote for their favorite thread. You'll have about a month to vote. So at the end of next month we'll have a winner, or more accurately, two, because the original poster AND the person who nominated them wins. What do you win? Gems of course. The mods will pay the winners.
So, to sum up. - Make good posts. - Nominate good posts. - Vote for posts. - Profit. - Have a laugh.
I hate to have this big of a whine, but I feel that this event warrants one, so here goes: After careful consideration and much reflection, I am not a fan of this event. I feel like it would be one thing to -require us to (“just”) breed a certain dragon, or -to offer up dragons that we already own to get rid of (“donate”), without the DC/E3M they earn, but to force us to breed all new, very rare dragons, some of which require over a day’s time in breeding/incubation, is just not fair - especially in such bulk requests. Having 3-5 epic types on any board is really almost cruel to newer players, and difficult or time consuming for even us veteran players. Of course I’ve been kicking myself over clearing some of the twins I had in my social menu that could have definitely contributed towards many boards, although thankfully I still had quite a few valuable ones and even got some from the rift mystery eggs throughout the event. But how could the newer players, or the ones who don’t speed breed for blue fire, or buy mystery eggs from the Rift, come up with enough dragons/magic to complete this event? Also, I was confident that I would be getting multiples of each dragon if I bought enough of those stinkin Surface mystery eggs, so I did not buy Kaiju, and I thought I’d have a chance even to get him from the CBC if not from the mystery eggs. I’ve bought 13-15 Surface mystery eggs, and have been breeding with an Elder Fire or Dark dragon with a friend’s lvl 20 Kaiju for the entire event, and still have not gotten a single Kaiju. I think I’ve received 4-5 Sumis, which I feel shouldn’t even be an option from this mystery egg - they just changed its typing and threw in a dragon that I think a lot of players already had (if not before the event, they definitely do now!). Also, why make the newest epic type habitats count toward our habitat limit, and hold only 2 dragons? Ugh 😑😔🤦♂️ I’m annoyed with the cost of this event. I’ve spent more gems (I know, of my own choice - no one forced me) on this event than on any other I think, and I don’t even have every dragon from it. Lastly, the thing that really spurred this rant: In every other event, in the daily calendar thing that provides dragon type _x_ for you to get a free one, it has always been coded as we get to choose which dragon of that category that we want. This has been one of the first events I’ve seen that, instead of allowing us to choose, they just gave us another Surface mystery egg. And so of course I got another Sumi, and no Kaiju. Sorry for the rant, but I’m just very frustrated by this event, mostly because I worked so hard to try to get as many mystery eggs as I could, because I wanted to get the regular, twin, twin rift versions of the event dragons, but not one Kaiju in 13-15 eggs seems like a rip off, along with how I feel the breeding odds must have changed during this event. Overall, D- for this event. No extra credit will allow it to pass in my book.
Huzzah; while the plebs (me and others) have to wait o so long a time for a 'bluminati rant, o my when they arrive, in clouds of sulphur steam, they are SOOOO worth it 😈😈😈😈 And so, in order to create a difficulty of stupendous proportions... (drum roll)...... POTM and EVENT nomination 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
So what is everyone spending their event currency on? Trying to decide if I should buy more Surface habitats (have 3 so far) or waste currency on more Rifted Chrysalis dragons.
I gave my DV playing GF a 3 pack of $10.00 Apple gift cards for her b-day* and she gave me one back! (I know, how sweet 😘). I used that card to buy 3K of Magic**, and I ended up w/over 35K of Magic.
1. I got a needed Eve w/the Day 25 Random Surface and bought a needed Sprite. That left me needing only the Kaiju (which, at this time, is still not available in the Wishing Well...).
2. Bought Eve & Sprite Peds.
3. Then I bought 4 Surface Habitats and put them, along with my 4 Omnitats on an empty Island.
4. Bought a Chryslis, Lacewing & Duskwing, giving me 2 of each king of Chrysalis Dragons.
5. Bought an Apocalypse Theme.
*I gave her other stuff too...
**Ever since the introduction of the Rift, I have refused to make any in-app, DV purchases. I know, I know, I just violated my own policy. Even though It was I who originally bought the Gift Cards, I was somehow able to (selfishly 🤑) justify apending that $10.00 gift card on Magic by considering it a gift given to me. I feel very guilty...😱
It's early in September, but the ** gets you a nomination for POTM from me! I laughed out loud
Worst event ever! What did help was everytime I felt like making a purchase I set aside the amount x10. Everytime I watched an ad to further game play I set aside $10. Acquiring quite the pile of cash to short HAS stock when the time is right. Maybe they will decide to listen to their players and then I would use the cash in the game. I am not holding my breath.
In better news... because I have not done a purchase in months, after the event I still have the Tolzar balloon/airship showing up with freebies and for the first time got a Gem through the Treasure offering. Also being offered two extra Gems (beside the 5) in the Colosseum for watching an ad.
It won’t let me put a picture but I CANNOT BELIEVE MY LUCK I JUST GOT A SOLAR ECLIPSE DRAGON FROM A FLAG PERSON
POTM because: new Valer, new forumer, and just WONDERFUL to be reminded of the positives that can happen in this game we love (and love to grumble and grinch about 😈) yaay for aquathedragon 🐨🐨🐨🌴🌴
The last few events have really dried up my enthusiasm, so when I saw that this event allowed us to earn beans in a few ways, and some games had returned, I was pleased about that, but also full of apprehension that there would still be plenty I didn't like about the event. I was already kind of low in enthusiasm because of the failure to breed certain dragons in the last few months, and not for want of trying (Kaiju, Chromacorn, Osteryx, Bonescale, and still missing a galaxy dragon, and possibly others I can't think of presently). I miss the fire-breathing dragonarium, to be honest... but now that I've gotten used to it being dead and cold, I just let the first tier of the event pass by without buying the UggaUgga or whatever it was...the ugly dragon! Saved my beans in case I needed them for dragons that don't offend my aesthetic eye quite so much. My friend felt even more strongly about its design than I--she said if she ever got one in the future during BEB or something, she would be deleting it, not even putting it in hibernation. I lucked out and bred one version of the...(these names are really hard for me to remember, let me check)...the Humuhumu and Honuhonu, which surprised me, as I was expecting they'd be added to my growing list of missed dragons. Don't even get me started on how many dragons I'm missing in the Rift despite dedicated breeding whenever they were available!
I still feel like the odds are better for newer/lower level players, and one thing that compounds this suspicion for me is that a friend started playing again after over a year's absence, and was able to clone a few dragons from me with much more ease before she reached max level, and now that she's reached it we've been trying with the same dragon for weeks on end and no koala. The clincher: the dragon is a Regal! I find that so very ironic and perversely hilarious, considering how many unwanted ones I, and many others of this forum and elsewhere, ended up with during that treasure event. Anyway, regarding the low breeding odds and general luck for higher level players, I know that while I've been finding most of my flag bearers daily (they are a blighted nuisance to find, those little neon-coloured ninjas that manage to creep behind bright objects and loiter there indefinitely to fool the eye, then promptly teleport and refuse to return for a coon's age once spotted), I haven't gotten any special dragon gifts from them, aside from one lone twin Gift Rift, though I really had no need of it. So...yeah. I know the potential for those eggs is just an extra, and I don't expect anything, but I always marvel when I hear of the mythical benign koalas that apparently exist out there in the cosmos, while I'm sent the Killer Koala of Caerbannog equivalent most times...
My problem with all of this during the past few months is it feels like some kind of forced communism. Buy things from them with real money, and you then lose the opportunity for gem visions, thus negating to a degree the bonus those players were paying for, for their own personal completionism. Let's be real, I can't imagine anyone is playing this game with the idea of competition with other players...it's a personal park with personal development and goals, or am I wrong in thinking that? So, I can understand giving the lower level players a boost as there's plenty to catch up on, but why does making it more difficult for higher level players have to factor in? That just eliminates the fun the further along you get in the game... Not good for player retention, I think. It feels like they're trying to cripple the players who are top level with most dragons, etc, in order to ensure they still have plenty of things to keep working at, to simplify things so that all players are around about the same level vying for the same things, but I don't appreciate the feeling of following a dangled carrot for months on end, and thinking it's because they assume I'd walk away if I had that carrot. Been there, didn't walk away, was happier then. For me personally, I loved the feeling in the past of having every dragon, and all the decorations I wanted, and being able to plod along at a comfortable pace. The thing is, not every player wants to play the same way, and to force those who aren't into the urgent scrambling and eternal stress and sense of constant longing for things they can't obtain to have to play that way because of whatever eeevil algorithms are at play...it is in a word, diabolical!
Well, there's my latest rant, if anyone bothered to soldier through it all! Lurk, then rant. 'Tis my modus operandi.
POTM, well said Zekky. I used to buy event currency during every event and Gems when they were on sale to support the folks at BFS. Stopped a while back when the communism/socialism aspect of the game came to light on this forum. Add to that this new effort to get you to deplete all your resources (250 Gems for a maybe latest anniversary dragon that should have been a given, no thanks) and it is beginning to sound like what these corporate overlords do to us every day in real life. Get on the hamster wheel, keep going around and around but we will never let you get anywhere. Shocking that they still aren’t getting it after watching the changes beginning to go on worldwide.
The above post from Zekky was also nominated by Vivane, grandpakenny, & kat - Since there were so many nominators, I have truncated the posts a bit (full posts are viewable in the Party at Paradise thread, around page 9)
POTM, well said Zekky. I used to buy event currency during every event and Gems when they were on sale to support the folks at BFS. Stopped a while back when the communism/socialism aspect of the game came to light on this forum. End of quote Sorry but DV has nothing but nothing to do with either communism or socialism but all with capitalism.
Especially this part: “Let's be real, I can't imagine anyone is playing this game with the idea of competition with other players...it's a personal park with personal development and goals, or am I wrong in thinking that?”
That was one of the best features of this game, there was no stress related to competition but darn it, they managed to put stress in it anyway with the way they changed the function of events!
eg. These last 2 Dragons are unbreedable except in the COOP (which means that someone has to get enough Flowers to buy one of them).
Thanks for your post zekky, POTM of course! I agree with your vision of this game, there’s no competition for me too, just fun and excitement to breed a new dragon, and pleasure to decorate my parks. Though these days it’s hard to breed new dragons; I managed to breed a sprite (first « new » dragon for me since the beginning of this summer event
dvbox.bin.sh confirms dragonarium, that the new limited are un breedable atm, unless cloning or parent cloning in coop 😔 so back to filling in dragon gaps, pedestals etc or breeding for dc....
Thanks kiwichis. I could have sworn that I looked last night and they showed as breedable. Really annoying that the last tier has unbreedable dragons when this is a breeding game. I said this in another forum, but it feels to me as though DragonVale has the 7-year itch. For their 7th anniversary, they want a divorce from all their players...
POTM because: new Valer, new forumer, and just WONDERFUL to be reminded of the positives that can happen in this game we love (and love to grumble and grinch about 😈) yaay for aquathedragon 🐨🐨🐨🌴🌴
congratulations to newcomer aquathedragon for both the free dragon from the flag bearer and winning POTM too! Please private message me for further details on your prize. Kiwichris please PM me as well regarding yours. 🎉🎊 Thanks to all who participated and Koala on the next POTM. 🎉🎊
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I lucked out and bred one version of the...(these names are really hard for me to remember, let me check)...the Humuhumu and Honuhonu, which surprised me, as I was expecting they'd be added to my growing list of missed dragons. Don't even get me started on how many dragons I'm missing in the Rift despite dedicated breeding whenever they were available!
