I enjoy the race track from time to time. Mostly, as others have mentioned, while waiting a few minutes for an egg to be ready to hatch or the like. The xp did bump me up to level 35 more quickly than I would have made it otherwise. On the other hand, it is very predictable and I get first place every race, unless one of the kids distracts me and I forget to hit the screen at the right moment. I wish, even though I pick the right dragon, that it'd be more of a competition and that I had to fight harder to get first place. Hit perfect more often and really sweat through the race. That'd make me play more often.
I've played it quite a bit as I killed time travelling. It's a minigame so I don't have high expectations. However, the thing that turns me off is that there is a definite calculation of rarity in the spin. Gems, and the higher paying slots are landed on statistically less then they should.
I've raced many times for practice, never done a real race. Reading about the prizes lost to glitches just plain scared me. I have a hard time holding onto DC in the first place, and I just can't afford to lose 50,000 DC. I guess the new update is supposed to have fixed that, though, so I'll wait for a few positive comments before risking it.
Since the childhood days of Monopoly, and later, RISK, with my brother (and even later, with my husband), I have sucked at games. I almost never win at anything I play; my 10-year-old granddaughter beats me at Fish. . I knew better than to expect shining success with dragons, and I have been proven correct on that. Also, I developed a small tremor in my hands a couple of years ago and it makes it difficult for me to tap the lines exactly when and where I need to. Sometimes, I tap too early or way too late, totally beyond my control. It's frustrating beyond words. My rehab therapist says it's useful therapy for regaining better fine motion control, so I'll keep trying, if only on practice races, until I get better at it.
DV is still enormously fun to play. It sort of satisfies my childhood dream of a luxury dollhouse - lots of space, many rooms, delicious decorations, and those splendid dragons!
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow." -Mary Anne Radmacher
Debra GCID Granny Debs
My dragons love sharing the party wealth with new friends, but all the gems are spoken for. New friends are welcome, but no gems are left to shar
I've raced many times for practice, never done a real race. Reading about the prizes lost to glitches just plain scared me. I have a hard time holding onto DC in the first place, and I just can't afford to lose 50,000 DC. I guess the new update is supposed to have fixed that, though, so I'll wait for a few positive comments before risking it.
Since the childhood days of Monopoly, and later, RISK, with my brother (and even later, with my husband), I have sucked at games. I almost never win at anything I play; my 10-year-old granddaughter beats me at Fish. . I knew better than to expect shining success with dragons, and I have been proven correct on that. Also, I developed a small tremor in my hands a couple of years ago and it makes it difficult for me to tap the lines exactly when and where I need to. Sometimes, I tap too early or way too late, totally beyond my control. It's frustrating beyond words. My rehab therapist says it's useful therapy for regaining better fine motion control, so I'll keep trying, if only on practice races, until I get better at it.
DV is still enormously fun to play. It sort of satisfies my childhood dream of a luxury dollhouse - lots of space, many rooms, delicious decorations, and those splendid dragons!
Awww, I can empathize with the non-winning life, has been the same for me. I like that playing the Dragon Racing could actually be considered therapy for you. Maybe you can get your insurance to cover gems to buy coins for your therapy?
The update seems to have made things run more smoothly. Less pausing, none when spinning the wheel, and spinning the wheel is much quicker to get your prize.
The update seems to have made things run more smoothly. Less pausing, none when spinning the wheel, and spinning the wheel is much quicker to get your prize.
I was level 30 when it came out and am now 35. It was a great way to earn xp, you could quite easily move your xp bar by a quarter in a sitting (they might of reduced that now though), that was enough motivation for me to play it for hour long stints.
Now that I'm 35 it doesn't pull me in anymore, even though it's the most cost effective way to get food. I think it's because before I had and end goal, now it's just "meh, more food".
They should change it so you can increase the risk, bigger bets, better opponents, better prizes.
I was level 30 when it came out and am now 35. It was a great way to earn xp, you could quite easily move your xp bar by a quarter in a sitting (they might of reduced that now though), that was enough motivation for me to play it for hour long stints.
Now that I'm 35 it doesn't pull me in anymore, even though it's the most cost effective way to get food. I think it's because before I had and end goal, now it's just "meh, more food".
They should change it so you can increase the risk, bigger bets, better opponents, better prizes.
Just a thought here, you could choose lesser dragons to get better opponents.
I've raced many times for practice, never done a real race. Reading about the prizes lost to glitches just plain scared me. I have a hard time holding onto DC in the first place, and I just can't afford to lose 50,000 DC. I guess the new update is supposed to have fixed that, though, so I'll wait for a few positive comments before risking it.
Since the childhood days of Monopoly, and later, RISK, with my brother (and even later, with my husband), I have sucked at games. I almost never win at anything I play; my 10-year-old granddaughter beats me at Fish. . I knew better than to expect shining success with dragons, and I have been proven correct on that. Also, I developed a small tremor in my hands a couple of years ago and it makes it difficult for me to tap the lines exactly when and where I need to. Sometimes, I tap too early or way too late, totally beyond my control. It's frustrating beyond words. My rehab therapist says it's useful therapy for regaining better fine motion control, so I'll keep trying, if only on practice races, until I get better at it.
DV is still enormously fun to play. It sort of satisfies my childhood dream of a luxury dollhouse - lots of space, many rooms, delicious decorations, and those splendid dragons!
Awww, I can empathize with the non-winning life, has been the same for me. I like that playing the Dragon Racing could actually be considered therapy for you. Maybe you can get your insurance to cover gems to buy coins for your therapy?
Oh, Shirley, that's a fabulous idea, but I bet it wouldn't fly with Medicare!
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow." -Mary Anne Radmacher
Debra GCID Granny Debs
My dragons love sharing the party wealth with new friends, but all the gems are spoken for. New friends are welcome, but no gems are left to shar
Awww, I can empathize with the non-winning life, has been the same for me. I like that playing the Dragon Racing could actually be considered therapy for you. Maybe you can get your insurance to cover gems to buy coins for your therapy?
Oh, Shirley, that's a fabulous idea, but I bet it wouldn't fly with Medicare!
I'm thinking about selling the race track. It takes up a lot of space and I don't use it. Anyone else thinking of removing it?
Wait, are you talking about the race track or about Fletch?
No, no, no... Jean Luc Picard is hot and Fletch somehow worked enough voodoo to conflate himself and Picard in my mind, so now we can't get rid of Fletch. We will need to come up with new plans. But, I've said too much, thus revealing our intricate and Machiavellian plot to somehow displace Fletch creating a power vacuum which you could fill with me as your humble advisor and so taking over the entirety of Dragonvale and having control over all dragons. We all know Fletch is key to this process, but again, I do not mean to reveal our long plotted takeover that we have been toiling away at for the better part of the last 15 years. Good thing I have written this in code. Besides, the churlishness of the doltitude evinced in the referenced personage will not allow him to catch on, even if he were to break this tremendously complex code.
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. I knew better than to expect shining success with dragons, and I have been proven correct on that. Also, I developed a small tremor in my hands a couple of years ago and it makes it difficult for me to tap the lines exactly when and where I need to. Sometimes, I tap too early or way too late, totally beyond my control. It's frustrating beyond words. My rehab therapist says it's useful therapy for regaining better fine motion control, so I'll keep trying, if only on practice races, until I get better at it.
