Oh no Tanyon. I'm sorry. Maybe next try then. I sure hope so. I LOVE your avatar by the way! I bet you picked it out all by yourself didn't you? You sure are a funny boy.
Yes I did pick it out from my dads stuf. Im stil trying for a emerald
Good for you and keep trying. I am still trying too. I hope you get it soon.
He has the EBI getting free in three hours while he's at school, dad may have to start helping out during school hours or risk a coronary. ;D
Well I thought I would help him out and try to save him a couple hours while he was at school, attempt #44 is officially another Crystal, now both caves are tied up until tomorrow, he will be down to 6 days.
Attempt #45 and #46 resulted in 14 hours EBI and 24 hours in BC, clock is ticking.
With two Emeralds in their Gem Habitat and one Emerald Dragon Egg about to be displayed, I decided to just keep throwing Lichen and Crystal in the EBI and hope for another Emerald. Using the Breeding Cave to pump out Panlongs still. In my Emerald Dragon frenzy I managed 3 Moons, 1 Sun, 1 Rainbow, plus crazy numbers of Crystals, Moss, Trees etc.
So my first crack at Emerald number 4? 48 hours. Lol
With two Emeralds in their Gem Habitat and one Emerald Dragon Egg about to be displayed, I decided to just keep throwing Lichen and Crystal in the EBI and hope for another Emerald. Using the Breeding Cave to pump out Panlongs still. In my Emerald Dragon frenzy I managed 3 Moons, 1 Sun, 1 Rainbow, plus crazy numbers of Crystals, Moss, Trees etc.
So my first crack at Emerald number 4? 48 hours. Lol
Cool story huh?
Yeah, very cool, nothing like a little salt to the wound.
Well I thought I would help him out and try to save him a couple hours while he was at school, attempt #44 is officially another Crystal, now both caves are tied up until tomorrow, he will be down to 6 days.
Attempt #45 and #46 resulted in 14 hours EBI and 24 hours in BC, clock is ticking.
With two Emeralds in their Gem Habitat and one Emerald Dragon Egg about to be displayed, I decided to just keep throwing Lichen and Crystal in the EBI and hope for another Emerald. Using the Breeding Cave to pump out Panlongs still. In my Emerald Dragon frenzy I managed 3 Moons, 1 Sun, 1 Rainbow, plus crazy numbers of Crystals, Moss, Trees etc.
So my first crack at Emerald number 4? 48 hours. Lol
Cool story huh?
Tried for the 4th and got (4) trees and one rainbow. I realized I could of bred (4) Blooms instead of Trees and gotten closer to gold shrines.
Well I thought I would help him out and try to save him a couple hours while he was at school, attempt #44 is officially another Crystal, now both caves are tied up until tomorrow, he will be down to 6 days.
Attempt #45 and #46 resulted in 14 hours EBI and 24 hours in BC, clock is ticking.
The hour glass is only half empty. Still plenty of sand left.
Tonight my latest 24 hour and 48 hour finish about the same time. 2 Emeralds after I put them back in, I'm sure of it.
Finally have my 3rd Emerald being bred now. First is in the habitat & I used the second for the egg display. I've been putting lichen & crystal in both caves non-stop since the update & can't tell you how may crystals & trees I've gotten. It was quite frustrating. And in all those attempts I didn't get any rares! I would actually have like that since I only have one each of Sun, Moon & Rainbow LOL.
I think I'm going to go back to breeding Panlongs in the EBC and maybe try for Emeralds in the EBI until they aren't available anymore but I sure hope Fletch is wrong & we use a different breeding pair for June just so I can collect different eggs with the fails. I'm real tired of this combo already!
Finally got my Emerald. I love the egg. It's so pretty. From all the fails I have four blue pedestals on Ice Island, and the rest were sold to buy food for the shrine grind. As I'm raising Panlongs, I should have 4 shrines go gold at once.
Been offline a lot and got behind with gems. Beings desensitised to house dust mites and then got an URTI on top of that. End result has been a lot of down time. But we're climbing out of the pit. Miss you guys.
Finally got my Emerald. I love the egg. It's so pretty. From all the fails I have four blue pedestals on Ice Island, and the rest were sold to buy food for the shrine grind. As I'm raising Panlongs, I should have 4 shrines go gold at once.
Been offline a lot and got behind with gems. Beings desensitised to house dust mites and then got an URTI on top of that. End result has been a lot of down time. But we're climbing out of the pit. Miss you guys.
Finally got my Emerald. I love the egg. It's so pretty. From all the fails I have four blue pedestals on Ice Island, and the rest were sold to buy food for the shrine grind. As I'm raising Panlongs, I should have 4 shrines go gold at once.
Been offline a lot and got behind with gems. Beings desensitised to house dust mites and then got an URTI on top of that. End result has been a lot of down time. But we're climbing out of the pit. Miss you guys.
Miss you too Kim. You poor thing. Dust mites are horrible and get allergies in a frenzy and UTI's are no fun at all. Glad you are on the mend.
Fletch, I don't know if you have debunked this or not, but the old theory that BFS opens the gates wide when a new limited time dragon is introduced, then closes them to just a slit in the middle, then reopens them at the end seems to be occurring with the Emerald.
One other thing... I'm not really a conspiracy theory guy, but I had a thought. Perhaps BFS varies the odds for different players depending on their spending habits. It would be simple to track and correlate since they have everything on their computers.
Fletch, I don't know if you have debunked this or not, but the old theory that BFS opens the gates wide when a new limited time dragon is introduced, then closes them to just a slit in the middle, then reopens them at the end seems to be occurring with the Emerald.
One other thing... I'm not really a conspiracy theory guy, but I had a thought. Perhaps BFS varies the odds for different players depending on their spending habits. It would be simple to track and correlate since they have everything on their computers.
Poppy
To change the odds based on a players spending habits would be......well let's just say that although it's a business for BFS, there are a lot of young kids that would be very disappointed to find out that their time playing is not valued the same as someone that spends actual cash.
I certainly hope this is not the case and would expect a business to be up front about such odds when loading the app.
Fletch, I don't know if you have debunked this or not, but the old theory that BFS opens the gates wide when a new limited time dragon is introduced, then closes them to just a slit in the middle, then reopens them at the end seems to be occurring with the Emerald.
One other thing... I'm not really a conspiracy theory guy, but I had a thought. Perhaps BFS varies the odds for different players depending on their spending habits. It would be simple to track and correlate since they have everything on their computers.
Poppy
To change the odds based on a players spending habits would be......well let's just say that although it's a business for BFS, there are a lot of young kids that would be very disappointed to find out that their time playing is not valued the same as someone that spends actual cash.
I certainly hope this is not the case and would expect a business to be up front about such odds when loading the app.
But wouldn't it make sense to go the other way? You want to make it harder for the kids spending money ... because they're the ones spending money. Makes no difference to them to affect the odds of people that don't spend money because they're not getting anything from them anyway, but if someone keeps spending when he's failing, then you make him keep failing ... from a business point of view.
Experience tells me that this is not the case, and it's an unnecessary thing to do. People spending money are going to spend money anyway. It's like altering the % chance of getting a dragon during it's release ... I can't see the advantage to them from a business point of view.
EDIT: One more thing, if they want to alter the % of success for their players as a whole I think they're more likely to change the breeding pair required, like they did with Sakura near the end, rather than just alter the % itself.
Last Edit: May 25, 2012 15:57:45 GMT -6 by Fletch_smf
Fletch, I don't know if you have debunked this or not, but the old theory that BFS opens the gates wide when a new limited time dragon is introduced, then closes them to just a slit in the middle, then reopens them at the end seems to be occurring with the Emerald.
Still periodically testing the breeding % and posting in the OP of my thread. Also collecting data from other Wiki kids and posting it there as by myself I cannot breed anywhere near enough to show anything conclusively.
Probably won't be getting too much more on the Butterfly as Emerald is the focus of my time, atm.
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