The egg market one is the smallest one, so it upgrades twice for 150 then 225 gems. And you can just buy the giant form for 225 gems in the regular market which saves you both gems and eggs. So get that one.
Fun rant time! The market version is worse than pointless; it is actively counterproductive. Straight up buying the 250 gems for the Giant habitat costs the same as buying the eggs for the basic does in doubles. I'd accuse them of doing it deliberately but I have to self-invoke Hanlon's Razor here and think they probably just didn't notice. If they were really trying for that, then they'd have taken the Giant habitats out of the normal market so people getting their first Chrysalides had to buy the egg one. ...I hope I'm not giving anyone there ideas. 😒
thank you so much for the insight. One follow up question does the market one count against the habitat limit?
I purchased the giant chrysalis habitat and it did not count against the limit
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If I have an Ovalith and buy a second one in the Burcadian Bazar will it be an Ovalith or a Twovalith? And if I buy another would I get a Riftovalith? Things you think about at 2am before the event ends...
Last Edit: Apr 2, 2018 2:08:04 GMT -6 by amaranthia
I must say that overall, I've been less than thrilled with this event. Missing the Rosebud dragon (admittedly my own mistake, resultant of my ill-advised attempts at breeding in the event cave, as the price of the dragon indicated at that point it would be impossible to obtain without purchasing extra beans, otherwise) is just kind of a soggy blanket on top of the picnic basket, so to speak. As for the ants in the basket, I know it's never guaranteed to be able to breed dragons or get lucky with other aspects like the golden chests or eggs, but I had colossally bad luck! In recent events, once in a while I'd be able to clone a dragon off of someone else (took lots of gem-rushing, of course), but no such luck this time. I've also had astoundingly bad luck in the rift, where I missed being able to breed essentially all of those epics. Ended up buying at least the Monoliths and an Ovalith from mystery eggs, so it's not as bad as it could be, but it's discouraging to breed and breed with no turnover. I used that handy trick that I think SteelBluminatiConfirmed had mentioned, popping the cubes down all over my islands to be able to hunt for eggs more easily, and that aspect did amuse me, as I couldn't be bothered to buy any more cubes upon observing that I seemed to have one unlocked, which was incidentally the tasteless heart ones...what an overload of gaudy little froggy blood-pumpers that was, carpeting my entire park! Anyhow, I also tried the other suggested probability-increasing trick of tapping the golden egg first before anything else, but only before I started trying that did I receive an egg--a random monolith twin (and twins don't interest me; I sold roughly a legion of twins throughout my time playing because I didn't like them, and now that we seem to need them to ever be gifted rift eggs, that irks me somewhat...wish I could just skip them and get the rifted versions instead of having to get all 3). Anyhow, after that one dragon-filled golden egg, nada! I only saw a golden chest in the mini games three times in the entirety of this event, and naturally it waggled its rascally behind at me and waddled off at light speed.
Don't like the new direction BFS seems to have gone lately in with the lesser gem prizes, either. Until I joined this forum a few months ago, I had only had one friend in the game...my sister, who I'd started playing it with, I think not long after it was released for Android. She quit because her luck was so painfully bad she rarely ever got any epic dragons and missed nearly every limited dragon. Yep, worse than my luck, poor dear. Anyhow, due to playing for a long time with no in-game friends, I never built up a massive gem stash unlike some players, so I thrived off of those 'freebie gems for breeding this dragon', and then when they were introduced, the gems from games within events. I stopped playing for a time during that first light/dark rift event, because I didn't like some of the changes at the time, but then I crept back a few months later and had to catch up on a few things...When they introduced the rift, I thought I might skedaddle as I wasn't keen on the changes, but gave it a chance, and it's still not something I like, per se, but it's now at least a familiar aspect of the game. However, some of the little changes like being less generous in some of the prizes and possibly breeding probabilities, certain prizes like the pedestals costing more, and that scare--which I cynically perceive as a test to see how we'd react--with the Rosebud dragon being initially impossible for us... I am beginning to suspect they may have hired a Ferengi as a financial consultant, but if so, I'd like to remind him of Rule of Acquisition #57, regarding the current loyal population of players for this game: Good customers are as rare as latinum. Treasure them.
Also, side note, but in the last two events featuring it, has anyone else noticed that the dragon drop game seems to have increased in...bounciness? It used to be almost embarrassingly easy to predict where the ball would land, and I'd rarely miss what I wanted. But now, I calculate for a delay, and the ball ricochets around like a wasp on heroin and takes roughly five years to land anywhere. Is that just my perception, or have they perhaps changed their physics parameters for the game?
Anyway, I guess the above qualifies as a gargantuan nonspecific whine (apologies for lengthiness), and it's been a while in building, so I guess it's also an aged wine. Fancy. If anyone feels like sharing in it, plenty to go around. Drink up, me hearties! I'm standing on the edge, thinking it's not worth my time if it's not the same, carefree, enjoyable game that I used to love...sad to quit after playing for years, but if things keep going like they've been going...(trail off dramatically for effect... ...)
Bilby costs more than Cumberpatch, so better to get that reward from the Calendar.
Thank you for pointing that out!
With the 750 eggs we got today from the calendar, plus the 1000 from banked, I'll be able to juuust squeak out all four dragons– but only by using the last Reward for Bilby. If I picked Cumberpatch, as originally planned, I'd be short.
I didn't notice that and bought Bilby earlier because its the cutest!
But I'm okay on eggs I think.
I have purchased/been gifted every dragon this event. I had several days I was unable to get max due to RL getting in the way. And I have 5,400 eggs left over. So I'm thinking of breeding in the special cave for seconds. Except, of course, my nursery is full. So that could be a problem.
I’ve only just registered as a member on this forum, but have been reading as a guest for over a year now. I’m at 422 days of consecutive playing and quite possibly a bit addicted to Dragonvale. Your posts have been a great help for me thus far. Thank you! I’ve considered registering on the forum to possibly get a few more gem friends and friends to co-op breed with, especially on those “twins guaranteed days”. (I’ll find the appropriate post/thread for that later on.)
The reason I’ve registered today: I noticed something odd and wanted to check if anybody else sees the same thing happening in their game and/or possibly save players a bit of real life money.
I play on Android as well as on an Apple platform. Since I didn’t have much luck with breeding during this event, I was going to purchase some eggs from the market. (Hoping that BFS does not see this as encouragement to keep introducing more gambling aspects in to the game by the way. I’ve joined a lot of you in boycotting the Burcadian breeding cave.) Having a few OCD-inclinations (I do love all of your lists and Excell-sheets , thank you for those!), I started making a list of prices and egg-returns, calculated how much eggs I’d need for essential buys (aka dragons) and some optional buys (aka those pastel colored cubes and statues I’m not sure I like). I had all the numbers crunched (making the list from the game opened on my iPad) and then opened the game on Android to actually make the purchase...
START READING HERE (If you’re not into long and quite possibly unnecessary stories. ) On my iPad 650 eggs would cost me € 3,49, but on Android it’s only € 2,99. (1400 eggs for respectively € 5,49 and € 4,99. 3000 eggs for € 10,99 and € 9,99. 9600 eggs for € 27,99 and € 24,99. Etc.)
In conclusion, if you want to buy eggs and have multiple devices: shop around for the best price.
(What do you think: oversight or intentional difference? Anyone else notice this difference?)
Someone will be along shortly who knows more than I do, but I think the differing prices has mor to do with apple/google than the game. I have seen this in two other games I play as well.
If I have an Ovalith and buy a second one in the Burcadian Bazar will it be an Ovalith or a Twovalith? And if I buy another would I get a Riftovalith? Things you think about at 2am before the event ends...
buying event dragons with event currency from the event market always provides a regular (non twin/rift) version. Getting a dragon from a reward (daily event calendar, daily log in prize, community reward, mystery eggs) can result in twins or rifts depending on which version(s) you already have.
A few days before this event started, I received a mono-4 dragon as a milestone egg reward. Then, during the event, I bred mono-1, 2, and 6. That's all. I bought a chrysalis dragon, and chose a *cumberpatch* as my last event-reward. Those are the only dragons I have from this event (I'm still a first-year player, so when the Easter event started, I had ONLY mono-4).
I spent my eggs on most of the habitats, as well as the lost island (which is smaller than a regular island and can't have any island themes). I also bought most of the pedestals, because they are unexpensive, and they were the quickest way to unlock the last tier.
*I chose cumberpatch as my last reward, to guarantee having at least one hidden-habitat dragon*
I guess I was semi successful with this event, I managed to buy the Rosebud, I picked the Cocoahollow one for my last day prize, I tried to breed Cumberpatch and Bilby in the co-op but failed. I had started out with one or two of the Chrysalis and Monolith dragons and now only have 1 left of each that I need and can breed for. I still have eggs to spend tomorrow, a little over 9000 so I have options. I'll probably go for hidden dragons, but I haven't decided yet.
My lucky break was breeding Yolkwing with the last breed I had enough E for, less then an hour before I ran out of time after trying all weekend. I named him Overhard.
I know there have been some complaints that things are getting more expensive it these events, and it's maybe harder to get everything now. So out of curiosity, I ran the numbers now that we know everything (prize egg amounts, limited dragons, glitch rewards, etc). If all you needed were new things released in this event, that's 5 dragons and their corresponding eggs. If you bought 4 of them, and used the final prize day to get Bilby, the cost is 28,810 eggs. During the event, we were given 36500 with an additional 1000 to pull out once the event ends, leaving us with 8,690 to buy either eggs or an additional dragon.
Yes the timing of Rosebud was terrible and was not purchasable before the glitch and 1k reward. Other than that, they pretty much gave us the ability to buy everything without relying on luck for cloning or breeding dragons. I recall earlier events where that was certainly not the case, where you had to purchase currency in order to get all dragons and decorations/habitats/islands. So in fact, this has been one of the more generous events done by Backflip.
This also confirms my theory about buying dragons early and cloning them with your own copy, vs trying to clone others and buying them at the last minute. The first way lets you get a copy of the dragon and an egg before the end of the event, as it's much easier. And if one dragon does give you a hard time, you have enough to buy its egg or a second at the end. Also, stay away from that new breeding cave, so you'll have enough to buy everything!
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I must say that overall, I've been less than thrilled with this event. Missing the Rosebud dragon (admittedly my own mistake, resultant of my ill-advised attempts at breeding in the event cave, as the price of the dragon indicated at that point it would be impossible to obtain without purchasing extra beans, otherwise) is just kind of a soggy blanket on top of the picnic basket, so to speak. As for the ants in the basket, I know it's never guaranteed to be able to breed dragons or get lucky with other aspects like the golden chests or eggs, but I had colossally bad luck! In recent events, once in a while I'd be able to clone a dragon off of someone else (took lots of gem-rushing, of course), but no such luck this time. I've also had astoundingly bad luck in the rift, where I missed being able to breed essentially all of those epics. Ended up buying at least the Monoliths and an Ovalith from mystery eggs, so it's not as bad as it could be, but it's discouraging to breed and breed with no turnover. I used that handy trick that I think SteelBluminatiConfirmed had mentioned, popping the cubes down all over my islands to be able to hunt for eggs more easily, and that aspect did amuse me, as I couldn't be bothered to buy any more cubes upon observing that I seemed to have one unlocked, which was incidentally the tasteless heart ones...what an overload of gaudy little froggy blood-pumpers that was, carpeting my entire park! Anyhow, I also tried the other suggested probability-increasing trick of tapping the golden egg first before anything else, but only before I started trying that did I receive an egg--a random monolith twin (and twins don't interest me; I sold roughly a legion of twins throughout my time playing because I didn't like them, and now that we seem to need them to ever be gifted rift eggs, that irks me somewhat...wish I could just skip them and get the rifted versions instead of having to get all 3). Anyhow, after that one dragon-filled golden egg, nada! I only saw a golden chest in the mini games three times in the entirety of this event, and naturally it waggled its rascally behind at me and waddled off at light speed.
Don't like the new direction BFS seems to have gone lately in with the lesser gem prizes, either. Until I joined this forum a few months ago, I had only had one friend in the game...my sister, who I'd started playing it with, I think not long after it was released for Android. She quit because her luck was so painfully bad she rarely ever got any epic dragons and missed nearly every limited dragon. Yep, worse than my luck, poor dear. Anyhow, due to playing for a long time with no in-game friends, I never built up a massive gem stash unlike some players, so I thrived off of those 'freebie gems for breeding this dragon', and then when they were introduced, the gems from games within events. I stopped playing for a time during that first light/dark rift event, because I didn't like some of the changes at the time, but then I crept back a few months later and had to catch up on a few things...When they introduced the rift, I thought I might skedaddle as I wasn't keen on the changes, but gave it a chance, and it's still not something I like, per se, but it's now at least a familiar aspect of the game. However, some of the little changes like being less generous in some of the prizes and possibly breeding probabilities, certain prizes like the pedestals costing more, and that scare--which I cynically perceive as a test to see how we'd react--with the Rosebud dragon being initially impossible for us... I am beginning to suspect they may have hired a Ferengi as a financial consultant, but if so, I'd like to remind him of Rule of Acquisition #57, regarding the current loyal population of players for this game: Good customers are as rare as latinum. Treasure them.
Also, side note, but in the last two events featuring it, has anyone else noticed that the dragon drop game seems to have increased in...bounciness? It used to be almost embarrassingly easy to predict where the ball would land, and I'd rarely miss what I wanted. But now, I calculate for a delay, and the ball ricochets around like a wasp on heroin and takes roughly five years to land anywhere. Is that just my perception, or have they perhaps changed their physics parameters for the game?
Anyway, I guess the above qualifies as a gargantuan nonspecific whine (apologies for lengthiness), and it's been a while in building, so I guess it's also an aged wine. Fancy. If anyone feels like sharing in it, plenty to go around. Drink up, me hearties! I'm standing on the edge, thinking it's not worth my time if it's not the same, carefree, enjoyable game that I used to love...sad to quit after playing for years, but if things keep going like they've been going...(trail off dramatically for effect... ...)
Oh I love this! What a fabulous aged whant/raine (rant/whine, it won't make a nice cross breed word for me dang) Zekky, superb summary bouquet, with after notes of irritation, good legs, excellent Ferengi nose, and eggceptional chocolate wallop! Went well with Camembert on walnut and pistachio crackers 😈 POTM!
Post by journeywoman on Apr 2, 2018 20:05:29 GMT -6
If you've held off collecting any eggs in the Sundial, a reminder to make sure you grab them before the next reset - it disappears with the island, which is gone before the shopping ends... .
Last Edit: Apr 2, 2018 20:07:10 GMT -6 by journeywoman
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Oh I love this! What a fabulous aged whant/raine (rant/whine, it won't make a nice cross breed word for me dang) Zekky , superb summary bouquet, with after notes of irritation, good legs, excellent Ferengi nose, and eggceptional chocolate wallop! Went well with Camembert on walnut and pistachio crackers 😈 POTM!
I know there have been some complaints that things are getting more expensive it these events, and it's maybe harder to get everything now. So out of curiosity, I ran the numbers now that we know everything (prize egg amounts, limited dragons, glitch rewards, etc). If all you needed were new things released in this event, that's 5 dragons and their corresponding eggs. If you bought 4 of them, and used the final prize day to get Bilby, the cost is 28,810 eggs. During the event, we were given 36500 with an additional 1000 to pull out once the event ends, leaving us with 8,690 to buy either eggs or an additional dragon.
Yes the timing of Rosebud was terrible and was not purchasable before the glitch and 1k reward. Other than that, they pretty much gave us the ability to buy everything without relying on luck for cloning or breeding dragons. I recall earlier events where that was certainly not the case, where you had to purchase currency in order to get all dragons and decorations/habitats/islands. So in fact, this has been one of the more generous events done by Backflip.
This also confirms my theory about buying dragons early and cloning them with your own copy, vs trying to clone others and buying them at the last minute. The first way lets you get a copy of the dragon and an egg before the end of the event, as it's much easier. And if one dragon does give you a hard time, you have enough to buy its egg or a second at the end. Also, stay away from that new breeding cave, so you'll have enough to buy everything!
Anyone else remember the days where you had to save islands to clear during events? And before coop cave where you couldn't clone anything unless you already had 2 dragons? And how they chose the prize order for you and the dragons were after the pedestals? This event might not have been quite as easy or smooth (see rosebud) but still was way better than old events.
But stay away from the event breeding cave... that cost me, I could have picked up some older dragon pedestals but for that cave.
Post by ukwildcats4ever on Apr 3, 2018 11:11:35 GMT -6
And don't forget the days of growing the fastest treats over and over and breeding plant + plant over and over and buying and selling all those little bushes!! We jumped through a lot of hoops. Those were the days!! LOL
And don't forget the days of growing the fastest treats over and over and breeding plant + plant over and over and buying and selling all those little bushes!! We jumped through a lot of hoops. Those were the days!! LOL
Ah yes. I still have trails of those little bushes peppered throughout my park!
Okay, today is April 3 in Europe. Does this actually mean 23:38:xx to go before the event ends, or is there one other day like the last time?
Today is the last day. At the next reset the market will be gone and the Easter dragons will no longer be breedable. Grab anything you need from there but please keep your arms and legs inside the ride at all times.
The Twilight Tower will also reset to default again like it did today, which is a minor annoyance but enough to get me grumbling.
I finally got some Hidden luck and managed to breed Pond and Cumulus yesterday. 2/6 plus Ovalith. Not too bad I suppose. At least I got all 6 Rift Monoliths as well to try for the other 4 later.
And don't forget the days of growing the fastest treats over and over and breeding plant + plant over and over and buying and selling all those little bushes!! We jumped through a lot of hoops. Those were the days!! LOL
I much prefer this event to the light and dark event (Even back then I refused to do the bushes thing!)
And don't forget the days of growing the fastest treats over and over and breeding plant + plant over and over and buying and selling all those little bushes!! We jumped through a lot of hoops. Those were the days!! LOL
And don't forget some of the things that still fill me with dread. No 1k limit per day, instead each activity had a limit. 40 points selling dragons, 40 from collecting habitats or spending gems, 10 max from clearing obstacles, 10 max from friend visits, and so on.
Oh, and there was no counter tracking any of this. You had to track it yourself, and know your point totals and what was left in each area! Sometimes you had to harvest 50-100 farms to get that final 2 points with diminishing returns, always doubting yourself and thinking you may have counted wrong. Getting to the 'max' per day was a serious chore.
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