But you purposefully kept your park small to prevent crashes because you had a device with less than 4GB RAM. So after you upgraded to a device with more RAM, it’s not too surprising that you purchased a lot of islands and haven’t filled them yet.
Of course new players, returning players, and players who do not have all the decorations and dragons, or a desire to display them, will have land. But for players who fall in one or more of the following categories: playing DV for 11 years, have all 732 dragons, collect 3-4 versions of each dragon, have massive pedestal collections, have DC farms, have all the decorations, decorate their islands so it’s aesthetically pleasing — they’re experiencing an island shortage.
Every player has their own goals and is at a different place in the game; that’s the beauty of DV. So some players will have space and others do not. But the land problem is not something players imagined. From March 2020 - March 2021, there were zero Expansion Extravaganzas. Since then, every EE has only had a single island, with the exception of one (Deca accidentally leaked the EE contents a couple days early; they quickly added another island so there would be something new). By releasing no islands and/or less islands every year, and increasing the number of dragons and decorations, we are naturally at a constant lack of real estate.
Yes, I did keep my park small for a while because I was I told by a person on this forum that the game becomes unplayable once a certain level is reached. So it was more about me not doing anything that would level up my park. I went a very long time without feeding my dragons or growing treats, which is something I can do now because I have a better device.
But I haven't actually purchased a bunch of islands since obtaining a better device. I've been feeding and leveling up my dragons, but that's about it. I buy islands as needed. Usually one every couple of months, which is why I still have all those sitting around that I haven't purchased. I don't understand the desire to obtain all the decorations, or collect twins and traits, or collect one of every dragon, or the desire to get a dragon in every stage from baby to adult then have all of them on display. Even when I had a device with less RAM, I never thought about those things. I actually bred two traited Stygian in the Rift during this event and released both of them because I already have one and I don't collect traited dragons (I know somebody out there is going to hate me for that).
Why do people do that? I'm honestly curious as to why some players feel the need to have so much. Seriously, I'd love to hear what people have to say, though probably not in this topic because it's an event topic and that might be better suited for the regular game topic. 😊💙 I have a genuine curiosity to hear people out and listen to what they have to say because it's something I don't understand. I see people who absolutely must collect traited dragons and twins, while I'm in my own little corner like dude, it's not a big deal. Those things don't matter to me. They aren't important. Having your Dragonarium breathing fire isn't important to me. Twin Weekend isn't important to me. None of that is. Even when I'm playing Animal Crossing, it's the same thing. No, I don't want every single furniture item to complete the catalog, or every color variation of every clothing item. But, you know, that's just me. I'm weird. 😋
Maybe people want a goal to work towards to keep them playing and give them something to do. Which is fine. I get that. But for me, I just get whatever looks cute or pretty. If a dragon is ugly and I don't want it, then I don't get it. That's why my park is small, because there's very little that I want. It's not because of how much RAM my device has. It's because I'm not a completionist, because that would mean having a lot of ugly dragons and junky decorations that I don't want to own or look at.
DragonVale is a collection game. The goal is to collect all the different types of dragons, pedestals, and decorations, so BFS and now DECA keeps coming out with more dragons and items to collect. The game is surviving because of this. If nobody wanted to collect the content, then players would be playing occasionally and no one would make any purchases, so DV would not be profitable and the game would shut down.
That is very cool that you don’t have an interest in collecting all the dragons or decorations, I really like that style. But please understand that you’re a rare player. Most players have a goal to collect all the dragons, or all the twins, or all the traited dragons, or all the pedestals, or all the decorations, etc. There’s conversations about this every day on the forum and all the DV communities on Reddit, Discord, and Facebook. A golden Dragonarium, and red, blue, and purple fire are extremely common goals for players. It shouldn’t be surprising that players want to achieve them. And no one should be made to feel like they’re unreasonable, or should not be frustrated when they can’t get a dragon traited, or that they’re playing DV in a wrong or unhealthy way, because they have goals for the game that the developer purposely put in place to make the game more playable and enjoyable. In the same way, players like yourself, who do not intent on collecting all the dragons or decorations should not be made to feel like they’re not playing the game correctly or effectively. As adlerist has said many times before “there’s no wrong way to play DV.”
Your disinterest in collecting all the dragons or decorations is why you don’t have any problems with land. But please understand that your way of playing is very different than the majority of players or the way BFS intended for people to play DV. So that’s why so many players collect all the different content, and why they have a shortage of islands.
DragonMoonX, I greatly admire your more laid back approach to playing DV, and I also greatly admire those who achieve red, blue, and purple fire. We can all appreciate other players’ goals. I don’t have a desire to collect all the twin pedestals, but that doesn’t prevent me from deeply appreciating amos’s goal of completing this collection.
samiam’s reply sums up this discussion nicely. But if anyone would like to add to this or further discuss it, please post on the DV Progress and Achievements thread. Thank you! 😊
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Does anyone know if solarflare is among the event login reward picks? And how long it's available to claim?
Adlerist posted all the dragons available in the participation station egg dragonvale-tips.proboards.com/post/222001/thread. Solarflare is an option. You have until Monday to pick your dragon.
Post by Lady Redwolf on Sept 3, 2022 10:52:04 GMT -6
Just had a crazy run of breeding luck. Been trying for soooo long to get a Dusk, then Midday in the rift. Here we are, second to last day. First 2000 breed landed Dusk. First 5000 breed landed Midday. Second 5000 breed landed Taurian. That was freaking awesome. 🌅♉️
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Does anyone know if solarflare is among the event login reward picks? And how long it's available to claim?
Adlerist posted all the dragons available in the participation station egg dragonvale-tips.proboards.com/post/222001/thread. Solarflare is an option. You have until Monday to pick your dragon.
Just had a crazy run of breeding luck. Been trying for soooo long to get a Dusk, then Midday in the rift. Here we are, second to last day. First 2000 breed landed Dusk. First 5000 breed landed Midday. Second 5000 breed landed Taurian. That was freaking awesome. 🌅♉️
Post by Fletch_smf on Sept 3, 2022 20:36:47 GMT -6
Posting here instead of the Bugs thread, because maybe it's just me.
During this event, most mornings, I turn colour off in my park, and then turned it back on for Visitors, the 10 regular elements, and epics. To help find the visitors and Stardust, obviously. Then, after crawling through my park, collecting DC, visitors and stardust, I put my park back to full colour. Now on 3 different days, I have gone through my full park, and not seen any special visitors or stardust. I check the settings, and it's definitely visitors/elements/epics set to colour. I put it back to full colour, and try again after lunch, and then everything can be found as per usual.
Now it's probably user error, but 3 times during the event seems odd. Has anyone else had this problem?
Posting here instead of the Bugs thread, because maybe it's just me.
During this event, most mornings, I turn colour off in my park, and then turned it back on for Visitors, the 10 regular elements, and epics. To help find the visitors and Stardust, obviously. Then, after crawling through my park, collecting DC, visitors and stardust, I put my park back to full colour. Now on 3 different days, I have gone through my full park, and not seen any special visitors or stardust. I check the settings, and it's definitely visitors/elements/epics set to colour. I put it back to full colour, and try again after lunch, and then everything can be found as per usual.
Now it's probably user error, but 3 times during the event seems odd. Has anyone else had this problem?
I have not been turning off my color this event because I seem to be finding all of the stars with the color. But at least two times this event, maybe three I have had the same thing where I search through my park multiple times and can not find the star that the border indicates is there, with last night/this morning being the most recent. In the past, during this event, I even turned the color off and did the paths trick and could not find it anywhere. So I would agree that I have also seen it.
Posting here instead of the Bugs thread, because maybe it's just me.
During this event, most mornings, I turn colour off in my park, and then turned it back on for Visitors, the 10 regular elements, and epics. To help find the visitors and Stardust, obviously. Then, after crawling through my park, collecting DC, visitors and stardust, I put my park back to full colour. Now on 3 different days, I have gone through my full park, and not seen any special visitors or stardust. I check the settings, and it's definitely visitors/elements/epics set to colour. I put it back to full colour, and try again after lunch, and then everything can be found as per usual.
Now it's probably user error, but 3 times during the event seems odd. Has anyone else had this problem?
I have not been turning off my color this event because I seem to be finding all of the stars with the color. But at least two times this event, maybe three I have had the same thing where I search through my park multiple times and can not find the star that the border indicates is there, with last night/this morning being the most recent. In the past, during this event, I even turned the color off and did the paths trick and could not find it anywhere. So I would agree that I have also seen it.
This appears to be two separate issues:
• From what Fletch_smf said, three times during this event, none of the 10 flag bearers and 6 fallen stars were in his park the first time he searched, but they all appeared later.
• lisgie is saying 2-3 times during this event she could not find the last fallen star in her park.
I have not had these issues. Every day, I’ve been able to find at least some of the flag bearers and fallen stars during the first collection of my park. Sometimes, I can’t find the last couple flag bearers and/or fallen stars. But that’s because I have a large, heavily decorated park. I don’t think it’s because the fallen stars aren’t there, rather they’re in a place that’s difficult to find them (the dragons and some habitats are still opaque in Edit Paths mode). If I force close the game and reopen, allowing the NPCs to reset, I can locate the remaining items.
Fletch_smf, since the flag bearers and fallen stars show the next time you open your park, perhaps your park isn’t fully loading the first time you play after reset. When this occurs again, force close the game, wait a couple minutes, then reopen and see if the items are there. If the problem becomes more frequent, open a help ticket with Deca. They’ll need to recreate the bug. So far, I haven’t heard any similar complaints from the Game Reps or other DV communities.
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Just had a crazy run of breeding luck. Been trying for soooo long to get a Dusk, then Midday in the rift. Here we are, second to last day. First 2000 breed landed Dusk. First 5000 breed landed Midday. Second 5000 breed landed Taurian. That was freaking awesome. 🌅♉️
I had the EXACT same bit of luck earlier in the event after my rift rant but spread over two days and with lower Etherium amounts. I was also able to get several other dragons in the rift after dusk/midday/taurian. Now, the breeding spigot seems to have been shut off again. I still think the rift breeding cave is fubar.
Roll up the sleeping bag Camping Under the Stars is coming to a close
Less than 24 hours to...
• Collect Star Dust
• Breed or buy Taurian and his pedestal
• Claim all daily event rewards, including the final egg at the Participation Station
(Remember, if you’re claiming a traited-twin dragon, you can select the trait you want: tap the day 36 prize; the Choose a Dragon menu will pop-up, tap the '?' on the dragon’s listing. The dragon’s profile card will show and you can see what the trait looks like on the dragon. If you don’t like the trait, close Choose a Dragon and the Participation Station, reopen, and you’ll be offered a different trait. Repeat until the desired trait appears.)
You still have two more days to shop at the Campside Merchant. The event market disappears on Wednesday, September 7th at the daily reset. If you’re wondering which dragons to purchase, MinyaZ has put together a list of the best dragons to buy (required in locked breeding combos), and the items in the event market that have the best Star Dust to DC exchange rate to maximise your DC earnings.
Due to the Labor Day holiday, there has been an extension for the Rate a Dragon deadline. Players have until Friday, September 9th at 6.00 PM (MDT) to complete their ratings. The poll to vote for your favourite event dragons closes on September 9th at 11.00 PM (MDT).
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I did not have any issues with stars spawning. But, I believe I had some months ago when I didn't close the app in the background and logged in shortly after reset. I could be misremembering, though.
If the Solarflare dragon can only be bred at the co-op cave, how do I ever get one that is rifted? I already have 3 non-rifted. Thanks!
You can only get a Rift version of a Galaxy dragon from the Galaxy mystery eggs. Same with all the other Galaxy dragons. It’s a BIG problem that DECA needs to change. Lots of players are using the Vote for the Top Dragon poll/thread to complain about it. I really like the idea of no dupes if you already have the dragon. The eggs get more expensive with each one you buy. I think they max out at 225,000 etherium. We need to not get Rift dupes.
Post by Lady Redwolf on Sept 5, 2022 18:13:49 GMT -6
I enjoyed this event. Managed to get 2 of every dragon (3 of a few). Got all decos and maxed out on zodiac habitats. Even grabbed another moon island theme for my zodiac island.
Next up should be the new anniversary dragon. Can’t wait to see what they come up with!
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I enjoyed this event. Managed to get 2 of every dragon (3 of a few). Got all decos and maxed out on zodiac habitats. Even grabbed another moon island theme for my zodiac island.
Next up should be the new anniversary dragon. Can’t wait to see what they come up with!
11 years!
I remember when Rainbow was the only epic and crazy hard to get. And when Panlong was released and earned insane amounts of DC.
We’ve come a long, long way, DragonVale….!
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If the Solarflare dragon can only be bred at the co-op cave, how do I ever get one that is rifted? I already have 3 non-rifted. Thanks!
You can only get a Rift version of a Galaxy dragon from the Galaxy mystery eggs. Same with all the other Galaxy dragons. It’s a BIG problem that DECA needs to change. Lots of players are using the Vote for the Top Dragon poll/thread to complain about it. I really like the idea of no dupes if you already have the dragon. The eggs get more expensive with each one you buy. I think they max out at 225,000 etherium. We need to not get Rift dupes.
I was afraid this was going to be the answer to my question. This does need to be changed. I very rarely purchase an egg; I seem to need every bit of erethrium for rift breeding.
In my park, I can buy another frosted filigree and frigid formation with stardust even though I did not see them in the market. Useful information if someone wants a second.
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