THE RIFT

[wOMantraNOM]

Oct 12, 2017 11:48:45 GMT -6 skeeter622 said:

What does the twilight tower Riftroar theme do? Or is it just purple to symbolize the rift?

That's the new theme playing when we reset, different from Spooky. There are scary faces lurking in it and it has new music. Do I recognize hints of the Munster's Theme song?

[wOMantraNOM]

Oct 12, 2017 13:03:19 GMT -6 Zekky said:

Oct 12, 2017 12:12:42 GMT -6 Kiwichris said:

Hi Zekky , and welcome to the funhouse! I just hafta say, wot with your icon, the comment about being 'up to my ears' gave me a good morning chuckle, Thankyou!! Quark was one of my fave DS9 characters
Koala with your breeding efforts , and during the struggle, feel free to join the Utterly Rifted Club for Valers feeling more than a smidgeon overwhelmed 😆🐨🐨🐨

Thank you for the welcome and koalas, and I hope they go for a romp in your park, too! I've been enjoying many of the members' comments here whilst stalking the forum, so glad to incite a chuckle myself as well! Pleasantly surprised to find a fellow DS9 fan, too

More than one! 

[Kiwichris]

Huh, proof I'm slow; just worked out/realised the Rift dragon hourly E earning rate is its Level
Makes certain choosings MUCH easier lol

[wOMantraNOM]

Oct 12, 2017 14:09:11 GMT -6 Kiwichris said:

Huh, proof I'm slow; just worked out/realised the Rift dragon hourly E earning rate is its Level
Makes certain choosings MUCH easier lol

Makes it easy to calculate each habitats total hourly earnings, too. 

🐨🐨🐨👻🐨🐨🐨

[Lamonster]

Here's a cheat sheet if you want to focus on the 11 limited spooky dragons with traits:

bog: water, plant, fire
bone: fire, earth
decay: fire, earth, cold
garden: plant, earth
ghost: cold, earth
lycan: lightning, cold, plant
nosferatu: cold, fire, earth
ortreat: plant, fire, earth
spectre: cold, earth
thicket: earth, plant, cold
trick: plant, fire, earth

[nessa]

Oct 12, 2017 13:33:08 GMT -6 onejoebloggs said:

Oct 12, 2017 10:11:05 GMT -6 nessa said:

Here are the pictures I wanted to show with my last post. Isn't it possible anymore to post them full size?

Excellent layout! Is the ordering: standard, twin, rift?

Thanks! Yes, it is. I've also started collecting second standards of the golden hybrids because the layout didn't work without them.


The only riftet Spooky I got today was Spectre.

[nessa]

Oct 12, 2017 13:55:05 GMT -6 wOMantraNOM said:

Oct 12, 2017 11:48:45 GMT -6 skeeter622 said:

What does the twilight tower Riftroar theme do? Or is it just purple to symbolize the rift?

That's the new theme playing when we reset, different from Spooky. There are scary faces lurking in it and it has new music. Do I recognize hints of the Munster's Theme song?

Don't know about the Munster's Theme, but I hope we receive this theme as a gift for the twilight tower after the event, it looks sooo cool!

[Cyn]

Oct 12, 2017 10:11:05 GMT -6 nessa said:

Here are the pictures I wanted to show with my last post. Isn't it possible anymore to post them full size?

Really beautiful, nessa! Love the Greek key design!

[Cyn]

Oct 12, 2017 14:43:02 GMT -6 Lamonster said:

Here's a cheat sheet if you want to focus on the 11 limited spooky dragons with traits:

bog: water, plant, fire
bone: fire, earth
decay: fire, earth, cold
garden: plant, earth
ghost: cold, earth
lycan: lightning, cold, plant
nosferatu: cold, fire, earth
ortreat: plant, fire, earth
spectre: cold, earth
thicket: earth, plant, cold
trick: plant, fire, earth

Added to the first page of the event thread HERE. Thank you, Lamonster !

[lontra]

Haven't been able to keep up with all this, real life seems to be hammering me right now. But I agree that the rift certainly changed things. I don't completely get the breeding, and I'm not happy with all the costs (E, E, E). It would be nice to be able to decorate Rift. My biggest problem is that I also feel overwhelmed. I've played for 3 years now, and had just gotten all the dragons when the Rift hit. I'm having trouble motivating myself to keep at it when I don't seem to be getting much in return and the end is so far out of sight I might as well be walking to the moon.

I don't mean to sound negative, it is simply that I don't enjoy the game like I did. Sad,cause I've spent a lot of time on it, and I am stubborn to a fault. So I will keep plugging, but it has lost the shiny gleam that the game used to have for me

[nagini]

I think the pressure people feel to get all of the spooky traited rift dragons and all of the hybrids with all of the traits in the rift is just their own completionist drive, right? I mean, it makes no difference to the dragonarium if you have a regular, twin, or one rift version of a dragon, it counts that you have that dragon and doesn't need all versions of each type to make it breathe basic fire, just for the fancy colored fire, right? I am not feeling a lot of pressure that I must breed all possible rift variants of all of the spooky dragons during this limited time event, just thinking that they will be some occasional fun changes from the interminable blazing, obsidian, and other basic hybrid fails when trying for the more exotic, unique to the rift dragons. Or am I missing something?

[purplemoon123]

Oct 12, 2017 18:32:50 GMT -6 lontra said:

Haven't been able to keep up with all this, real life seems to be hammering me right now. But I agree that the rift certainly changed things. I don't completely get the breeding, and I'm not happy with all the costs (E, E, E). It would be nice to be able to decorate Rift. My biggest problem is that I also feel overwhelmed. I've played for 3 years now, and had just gotten all the dragons when the Rift hit. I'm having trouble motivating myself to keep at it when I don't seem to be getting much in return and the end is so far out of sight I might as well be walking to the moon.

I don't mean to sound negative, it is simply that I don't enjoy the game like I did. Sad,cause I've spent a lot of time on it, and I am stubborn to a fault. So I will keep plugging, but it has lost the shiny gleam that the game used to have for me

I totally feel you. I had only gotten my shiny fire breathing dragorium this past BEB and only had six months to enjoy its wonderous fire. Now I don't know how long it will take to get it back. So instead of being bogged down by such huge obstacles of 90 dragons with 10 different traits, dragons that need opposites with specific traits, or even now new limited dragons. Set yourself with small goals. Try for all of one element hybrids. Or try for your fave hybrids. Or try to get the hybrids needed for upcoming gem dragons. 

It took me 2 years to get all my dragons this time around not only do I have my handy dandy notebook but I also have this wonderful community full of laughs and amazing tips.

[Kiwichris]

Oct 12, 2017 14:43:02 GMT -6 Lamonster said:

Here's a cheat sheet if you want to focus on the 11 limited spooky dragons with traits:

bog: water, plant, fire
bone: fire, earth
decay: fire, earth, cold
garden: plant, earth
ghost: cold, earth
lycan: lightning, cold, plant
nosferatu: cold, fire, earth
ortreat: plant, fire, earth
spectre: cold, earth
thicket: earth, plant, cold
trick: plant, fire, earth

I like the wisdom of purplemoon123 and others, for me, this list was the 'mmph' to the brain, on top of all the other Riftie step wise difficult to gets... Now this, and they might be time limited too??!! O dearie me. Quite overwhelming. Then I thought, well it's great for all those Valers who have sparkly dragonariia, and are bored.... 
So, I might just ignore all these newbies, and keep on in the Vale with small picnic excursions to the Rift, wheeee,  naughty! 

[Quil]

Oct 12, 2017 20:56:13 GMT -6 nagini said:

I think the pressure people feel to get all of the spooky traited rift dragons and all of the hybrids with all of the traits in the rift is just their own completionist drive, right? I mean, it makes no difference to the dragonarium if you have a regular, twin, or one rift version of a dragon, it counts that you have that dragon and doesn't need all versions of each type to make it breathe basic fire, just for the fancy colored fire, right? I am not feeling a lot of pressure that I must breed all possible rift variants of all of the spooky dragons during this limited time event, just thinking that they will be some occasional fun changes from the interminable blazing, obsidian, and other basic hybrid fails when trying for the more exotic, unique to the rift dragons. Or am I missing something?

It's definitely my own pressure. I've been playing since the first release day, never missed a single dragon that was released before it went away and always managed to get 2+egg. Same with decorations. And I'm finally working to complete the last of the twin/twin egg collection.
The rift hybrids are fun, something long term to work on with no 'end' date looming. But these spooky dragons with rift elements? Yep, I gotta have them and the deadline is coming up in a few weeks. I may miss my first 'get everything' with this event. And who knows, maybe that'll break my cycle and I'll be fine missing future ones, but right now, it's pressure!

[cecilia]

I've been trying so hard to breed a Dodo in the rift, but no success there. However, breeding two sandstorms in the normal breeding cave, what do I get? A DODO? How is THAT possible?! Sneakily hoping for an overnight miracle to shove it through the rift gate, and pick up a trait on the way.

Cecilia at he Duckpond

[vonfirmath]

Oct 13, 2017 3:10:27 GMT -6 cecilia said:

I've been trying so hard to breed a Dodo in the rift, but no success there. However, breeding two sandstorms in the normal breeding cave, what do I get? A DODO? How is THAT possible?! Sneakily hoping for an overnight miracle to shove it through the rift gate, and pick up a trait on the way.

Cecilia at he Duckpond

That's just the way the Random Number Generator works.

I had bred for a week for hte Mirage and Shadow I needed, then over the course of two days (less than 12 hours) got BOTH dragons and Lacuna!

[wOMantraNOM]

Oct 12, 2017 18:32:50 GMT -6 lontra said:

Haven't been able to keep up with all this, real life seems to be hammering me right now. But I agree that the rift certainly changed things. I don't completely get the breeding, and I'm not happy with all the costs (E, E, E). It would be nice to be able to decorate Rift. My biggest problem is that I also feel overwhelmed. I've played for 3 years now, and had just gotten all the dragons when the Rift hit. I'm having trouble motivating myself to keep at it when I don't seem to be getting much in return and the end is so far out of sight I might as well be walking to the moon.

I don't mean to sound negative, it is simply that I don't enjoy the game like I did. Sad,cause I've spent a lot of time on it, and I am stubborn to a fault. So I will keep plugging, but it has lost the shiny gleam that the game used to have for me

Oh, but All the pretty new Traits! And four quick'n'cheap breeds a day! And we can breed for regular dragons in the Rift, too!

[wOMantraNOM]

Here's a note for oldsmol , I stumbled upon this in another forum totally unrelated to DV, but ...

"By the way, returning to Icelandic which as you know has two th's (the thorn and the eth), both are dental fricatives, except that the thorn is voiced and the eth is unvoiced."

Good to know 

[meadowphoenix]

Oct 11, 2017 12:30:52 GMT -6 unknownlance said:

I just tried Air Rift and Plumewing with the Rift alignment on Water thinking that it's a sure win in either on them.

Nope, I got Blazing and Inferno.

Anyone has any ideas why so?

Plumewing has the elements Air and Fire. So you'd have a chance to get all the dragons you would usually get breeding Air and Fire.

[nessa]

Oct 12, 2017 17:14:02 GMT -6 Cyn said:

Oct 12, 2017 10:11:05 GMT -6 nessa said:

Here are the pictures I wanted to show with my last post. Isn't it possible anymore to post them full size?

Really beautiful, nessa! Love the Greek key design!

Thanks! Got the inspiration after I moved the two Olympus Habitats and Race Track from my overcrowded main/starting island.



GLACIER (EARTH) + POISON (FIRE) + RIFT ALIGNMENT LIGHT = GARDEN (LIGHT)

[unknownlance]

Oct 13, 2017 9:37:23 GMT -6 meadowphoenix said:

Oct 11, 2017 12:30:52 GMT -6 unknownlance said:

I just tried Air Rift and Plumewing with the Rift alignment on Water thinking that it's a sure win in either on them.

Nope, I got Blazing and Inferno.

Anyone has any ideas why so?

Plumewing has the elements Air and Fire. So you'd have a chance to get all the dragons you would usually get breeding Air and Fire.

Nope. Blightwing is the one with Fire and Air. Plumewing is Air with Air trait. There's no fire anywhere with Plumewing + Air Rift.

[althea]

Oct 13, 2017 19:41:21 GMT -6 unknownlance said:

Oct 13, 2017 9:37:23 GMT -6 meadowphoenix said:

Plumewing has the elements Air and Fire. So you'd have a chance to get all the dragons you would usually get breeding Air and Fire.

Nope. Blightwing is the one with Fire and Air. Plumewing is Air with Air trait. There's no fire anywhere with Plumewing + Air Rift.

Meadowphoenix is correct, Plumewing's types are Air, Fire & Rift.



But, to breed a Plumewing, you only have to combine an Air trait with the Rift element. Maybe that is the reason for the confusion? 

Here's a list of the breeding results for Air Rift X Plumewing: