Twin Weekend

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TWIN WEEKEND TIPS

If you’re using gems to speed up breeds during Twin Weekend, sometimes the game has difficulty keeping up, and you can lose them. Here are some tips to ensure you receive all your twins.

HOW TO ENSURE TWINS ARE DELIVERED TO YOUR MAIN PARK WHEN CO-OP BREEDING WITH A SECONDARY PARK ON TWIN WEEKEND


I did a number of Cooperative Cave breeds to test the issue of twins failing to appear in a park while breeding in the co-op with an secondary park. Since speed breeding is a large part of the problem, but is widely relied upon during Twin Weekend, I sped up all the breeds in these tests. This is what I discovered...


USING ONE DEVICE

If your secondary park is on the same device as your main park, and you’re trying to breed twins for the main park — you’re in luck. There doesn’t appear to be any issues with the delivery of twins.

I sped up 26 co-op breeds in a secondary account that’s on the same device as my main park.

• After 4-6 co-op breeds, I checked my main account to ensure the twins were delivered. They were all in my Gifts.

• Remember, there is a limit of 10 twins that can be waiting since your last park visit, so don’t leave your park unchecked for too long.

• To be extra cautious, if I received the breeding time for a twin I needed, I switched to my main park to empty the queue for twins, went back to the secondary park and sped-up the breed, then returned to the main park to ensure the twin was delivered.

• From the 26 co-op breeds performed, I received all 26 twins in my main account.


USING TWO DEVICES

This method applies if you’re working with a friend to help each other breed twins, or if you’re trying to breed twins for your main park and your secondary park is on a separate device.

When I initially performed these tests in January 2021, the iOS twin push notifications were disabled, so it was extremely difficult to tell if a twin was successfully delivered to your park. Deca Games recently restored the twin notification (thank you Deca!) so I’ve updated this section.

Please note: Twin push notifications have been disabled on Android. Deca is aware of the issue and the last we heard they were working on it.


Back in January 2021, without notifications, I made an interesting discovery about the delivery of twins when two devices are used.

I sped up 33 breeds on an old Android device that has a secondary park, which is not associated or linked to my main park (main park is on an iPad Pro).

If I kept my main park open and bred a twin on the Android, my main account would receive the in-game pop-up message for the twin about 2-3 minutes after completing the breed. After breeding about 5-6 consecutive twins, the pop-up stopped showing and twins are no longer received. Only force closing the app, then restarting the game will allow the delivery of twins to resume. Also, if I closed the main park before the twin pop-up appeared, the twin was lost. And if I continued to speed breed in the secondary park before the pop-up showed, the twin was lost.

Based on my previous findings and now equipped with twin notifications, here’s my recommendations.


I. Using Two Devices to Breed Twins for Your Main Park (one person, two devices)

If you’re using a separate device to breed twins for your main park, after you breed a twin, wait until the twin push notification shows on the other device. Then, breed another. If you breed another before the notification shows there’s a good chance the first twin will be lost and never appear in your Gifts.

After breeding and receiving the notification for 5-6 twins, open your device so the twin queue is cleared and check to be sure they’re in your Gifts. Even though Backflip stated that you can have up to 10 twins waiting, my tests showed that in some scenarios this is not the case and you may stop receiving twins sooner.


II. Breeding Twins with a Friend (two people, two devices)

Use this thread to coordinate with your friend and agree on a time to start breeding. Since you won’t know when your friend received a twin push notification, wait a couple minutes between each breed. If you breed a twin before they received the push notification for the previous twin, the previous twin may not be delivered. When you receive the timer for the target dragon do not complete the breed. Notify your friend so they can open their game and clear the twin queue. After they have done this and closed their game, speed up the breed and inform your friend the twin was sent. If you’re not speeding up breeds with gems, notify your friend before finishing the breed so they can clear the queue.


DOES THIS MEAN I’M MISSING A LOT OF TWINS DURING TWIN WEEKEND OR OUTSIDE OF TWIN WEEKEND?

If your friends are speed breeding most or all of their co-op breeds with your dragon, rapidly and in-a-row during Twin Weekend, you’re probably missing some of the twins they bred. However, if they’re not speed breeding, it’s likely you’ll receive those twins — provided you don’t have more than 10 waiting for you between sessions — but it’s no guarantee. When Twin Weekend is not running, it’s much less likely you’ll be missing twins. The probability of twins eliminates the possibility of receiving twins in-a-row, so speed breeding and non-delivery is no longer an issue. But again, it’s no guarantee.


IMPORTANT: After you successfully breed a twin, especially if it’s a dragon that’s desirable or difficult to breed, always take a screenshot. If it’s not delivered, you will have evidence of the twin and a time stamp for when the dragon was bred that you can submit to customer support. Screenshots are a great habit to continue even when Twin Weekend is over.


(originally posted on 31 January 2021)




AFTER TWIN WEEKEND

When Twin Weekend concludes, you will probably want to continue on with your twin collection. Discord player Jojo, discovered the chances of breeding a twin significantly increases with the fifth breed. So, if you receive a twin, breed PLANT + PLANT in the co-op four times, then resume your usual co-op breeding. Fletch wrote out the process in detail in this post, with a graph from Jojo.