Dragonvale Tips For Beginners

[Kiwichris]

Thanks ceme, I'll stop off at wiki first from now on

[oldsmol]

Admins,
Have a little question.
Who can make new entries, like "what's behind you GCid?"
Suppose it's only you?

My suggestion is: "What's behind your avatar?"

I write this especially after have been jamesvaled about mine when I wined to much over not getting a special dragon. The suggestion was to change my avatar.

Nearly cried out: Aldrig i livet! - but called down and wrote a poem instead. ☺️

[GregDarcy]

Jul 19, 2015 0:31:48 GMT -6 oldsmol said:

Admins,
Have a little question.
Who can make new entries, like "what's behind you GCid?"
Suppose it's only you?

My suggestion is: "What's behind your avatar?"

I write this especially after have been jamesvaled about mine when I wined to much over not getting a special dragon. The suggestion was to change my avatar.

Nearly cried out: Aldrig i livet! - but called down and wrote a poem instead. ☺️

Yes. Our revered founder poppy set things up to minimize new threads as he wanted to keep the conversation contained. I'm not sure even I can create a thread as a mod. I've never tried. It may need an admin. They are higher than me on the pecking order (and make sure I know it when I step out of line!)

[oldsmol]

Jul 19, 2015 1:09:51 GMT -6 GregDarcy said:

Jul 19, 2015 0:31:48 GMT -6 oldsmol said:

Admins,
Have a little question.
Who can make new entries, like "what's behind you GCid?"
Suppose it's only you?

My suggestion is: "What's behind your avatar?"

I write this especially after have been jamesvaled about mine when I wined to much over not getting a special dragon. The suggestion was to change my avatar.

Nearly cried out: Aldrig i livet! - but called down and wrote a poem instead. ☺️

Yes. Our revered founder poppy set things up to minimize new threads as he wanted to keep the conversation contained. I'm not sure even I can create a thread as a mod. I've never tried. It may need an admin. They are higher than me on the pecking order (and make sure I know it when I step out of line!)

The pecking order is good to be a aware of.

[Kiwichris]

Another newbie query if I may ( have tried wiki, doesn't seem to cover this); when I offer one of my dragons in the coop breeding cave by highlighting the heart on the icon; how does it become un-offered? Do I need to replace it with another dragon, or is it offered for a period of time, or??? Thanks!

[GregDarcy]

Jul 19, 2015 4:57:07 GMT -6 Kiwichris said:

Another newbie query if I may ( have tried wiki, doesn't seem to cover this); when I offer one of my dragons in the coop breeding cave by highlighting the heart on the icon; how does it become un-offered? Do I need to replace it with another dragon, or is it offered for a period of time, or??? Thanks!

When you choose a dragon to breed in the coop, it automatically becomes your shared dragon. It remains so until you choose another dragon either by breeding with the new dragon, or by selecting a dragon in its habitat and tapping on the heart in the top left corner of the frame around the picture of the dragon. This will turn blue to indicate that it is notw the shared dragon. You can do this even if your previous dragon is still breeding in the coop. I am told you can do this even with dragons in the hibernation cave though I haven't tried it so I cannot confirm it.

A lot of people share one dragon but breed with another. They do this by choosing selecting a breeding pair in the coop then immediately afterwards going to the dragon they want to share and select it for sharing. Personally I gave this up as I kept forgetting the second step.

[wOMantraNOM]

Jul 19, 2015 6:29:09 GMT -6 GregDarcy said:

Jul 19, 2015 4:57:07 GMT -6 Kiwichris said:

Another newbie query if I may ( have tried wiki, doesn't seem to cover this); when I offer one of my dragons in the coop breeding cave by highlighting the heart on the icon; how does it become un-offered? Do I need to replace it with another dragon, or is it offered for a period of time, or??? Thanks!

When you choose a dragon to breed in the coop, it automatically becomes your shared dragon. It remains so until you choose another dragon either by breeding with the new dragon, or by selecting a dragon in its habitat and tapping on the heart in the top left corner of the frame around the picture of the dragon. This will turn blue to indicate that it is notw the shared dragon. You can do this even if your previous dragon is still breeding in the coop. I am told you can do this even with dragons in the hibernation cave though I haven't tried it so I cannot confirm it.

A lot of people share one dragon but breed with another. They do this by choosing selecting a breeding pair in the coop then immediately afterwards going to the dragon they want to share and select it for sharing. Personally I gave this up as I kept forgetting the second step.

If you "blue heart" a different dragon than the one currently in your co-op and then change your mind, you can "blue heart" any other dragon instead except for the ones in your breeding caves. For those, you must wait until they are out.

I did "blue heart" a dragon in hibernation while breeding for Twins with Fletch_smf.

[Kiwichris]

Thanks!

[Kiwichris]

And another Q if you all don't mind
I am at L22 and until now have been able to feed dragons to L11 with a wee ball on their heads; today just before levelling up and still, I can't feed beyond L10. Is there a limit to the no of dragons I can have at 11 at my level? Thanks!!

[jamesvaler]

Jul 22, 2015 3:30:26 GMT -6 Kiwichris said:

And another Q if you all don't mind
I am at L22 and until now have been able to feed dragons to L11 with a wee ball on their heads; today just before levelling up and still, I can't feed beyond L10. Is there a limit to the no of dragons I can have at 11 at my level? Thanks!!

Well you can't level epic dragons above level 10 without the relic of the epics from the monolith Easter event. You probably should be able to level up a normal hybrid dragon to level 11.

[Kiwichris]

Ok, thanks JV, so an example is moon dragon, greyed out feeding amount required bar ...cannot feed it even tho have enough food ?not sure if moon is an epic?

[anyahastur]

Jul 23, 2015 13:52:33 GMT -6 Kiwichris said:

Ok, thanks JV, so an example is moon dragon, greyed out feeding amount required bar ...cannot feed it even tho have enough food ?not sure if moon is an epic?

Moon is an epic. You can check the types of dragon in the Dragonarium.

[Fletch_smf]

Jul 23, 2015 14:44:53 GMT -6 anyahastur said:

Jul 23, 2015 13:52:33 GMT -6 Kiwichris said:

Ok, thanks JV, so an example is moon dragon, greyed out feeding amount required bar ...cannot feed it even tho have enough food ?not sure if moon is an epic?

Moon is an epic. You can check the types of dragon in the Dragonarium.

You can also check the tags on the dragon when you click on it. The regular dragons are made of the elements.

Plant
Fire
Earth
Cold
Lightning
Water
Air
Metal
Light
Dark

Each of these elements has a namesake dragon that only has that element in it. The vast majority of the regulars are hybrids, made up of 2 of the regular elements. There are also limited hybrids to celebrate certain events in the real world which are made up of 2, 3 or 4 regular elements.

The rest of the dragons are epics (with a variety of elements like sun, moon, rainbow, olympus, etc), gemstone dragons, which live on gem island and the gemstone habitat and cannot be breed with any dragon, and galaxy dragons, which live in the galaxy habitats and can only breed in the Cooperative Breeding Cave.

Dragons made up of the regular elements can be breed up to level 20 (when your park has reached level 20) but the epics need the relic to be bred above level 10.

Although I don't think the gem dragons can be fed above level 10?

Cheers
Shane

[Kiwichris]

Thanks Shane, clarification; Dragons made up of the regular elements can be breed up to level 20 (when your park has reached level 20) but the epics need the relic to be bred above level 10.

?? Need the relic??

[GregDarcy]

Jul 24, 2015 4:02:23 GMT -6 Kiwichris said:

Thanks Shane, clarification; Dragons made up of the regular elements can be breed up to level 20 (when your park has reached level 20) but the epics need the relic to be bred above level 10.

?? Need the relic??

Yes you need the relic. Hopefully it will turn up during one of the phases of this event so those who missed out can get it. Something to save your tickets for.

And even with the relic, you can only feed Epics to L15. And as was mentioned Gemstones can't go above 10. I don't know about Crystalline I don't have one yet.

[echo9]

Jul 24, 2015 5:04:25 GMT -6 GregDarcy said:

Jul 24, 2015 4:02:23 GMT -6 Kiwichris said:

Thanks Shane, clarification; Dragons made up of the regular elements can be breed up to level 20 (when your park has reached level 20) but the epics need the relic to be bred above level 10.

?? Need the relic??

Yes you need the relic. Hopefully it will turn up during one of the phases of this event so those who missed out can get it. Something to save your tickets for.

And even with the relic, you can only feed Epics to L15. And as was mentioned Gemstones can't go above 10. I don't know about Crystalline I don't have one yet.

Jasper stops at level 10 even with the Relic

[drella]

Hello,

I'm new also. I see lots of people talking about having more than one park. How do you do that? I play on my Kindle.

[Fletch_smf]

Jul 24, 2015 4:02:23 GMT -6 Kiwichris said:

Thanks Shane, clarification; Dragons made up of the regular elements can be breed up to level 20 (when your park has reached level 20) but the epics need the relic to be bred above level 10.

?? Need the relic??

Yes, back in the day the shrines for each element were needed to feed dragons above level 10. It was a whole thing that they did away with, instead linking dragon level to park level.

The relic is a throwback to that time, but for epic dragons. It was a prize at the end of one of the events, and as we seem to be revisiting old events, it is certainly possible that it will be available some time during Summer.

[Fletch_smf]

Jul 24, 2015 14:50:54 GMT -6 drella said:

Hello,

I'm new also. I see lots of people talking about having more than one park. How do you do that? I play on my Kindle.

On my apple device it is just a matter of creating a new Game Center ID. It's a bit trickier on Google devices. Also, because it is linked to a Facebook account, and because Facebook only allows one account per person, it's not really allowed.

[drella]

Jul 24, 2015 15:19:27 GMT -6 Fletch_smf said:

Jul 24, 2015 14:50:54 GMT -6 drella said:

Hello,

I'm new also. I see lots of people talking about having more than one park. How do you do that? I play on my Kindle.

On my apple device it is just a matter of creating a new Game Center ID. It's a bit trickier on Google devices. Also, because it is linked to a Facebook account, and because Facebook only allows one account per person, it's not really allowed.

Thanks for the info.  I'm really enjoying this game and the Dragon Faire.  I like that it doesn't require constant attention to make progress.  I had tried another game and they seemed to think people had nothing to do but sit there with the game 24/7.  Also, the BFS support people are really great.  I had a response in a day.  In the other game they wouldn't even acknowledge people even on their blog when they asked for comments.  It's also nice to see so many people here have their children playing the game with them.  I also like the positive friendly attitude of this forum.  This is my first venture into social media.  So many places seemed to focus on the snide and nasty that I never felt like they were environments I wanted to belong to.

[GregDarcy]

Jul 24, 2015 18:33:55 GMT -6 drella said:

Jul 24, 2015 15:19:27 GMT -6 Fletch_smf said:

On my apple device it is just a matter of creating a new Game Center ID. It's a bit trickier on Google devices. Also, because it is linked to a Facebook account, and because Facebook only allows one account per person, it's not really allowed.

Thanks for the info.  I'm really enjoying this game and the Dragon Faire.  I like that it doesn't require constant attention to make progress.  I had tried another game and they seemed to think people had nothing to do but sit there with the game 24/7.  Also, the BFS support people are really great.  I had a response in a day.  In the other game they wouldn't even acknowledge people even on their blog when they asked for comments.  It's also nice to see so many people here have their children playing the game with them.  I also like the positive friendly attitude of this forum.  This is my first venture into social media.  So many places seemed to focus on the snide and nasty that I never felt like they were environments I wanted to belong to.

Actually I think you have it backwards. I know in my case, it was my children who got me into this game. They wanted me to play so I could send them gems. Several years later...

[drella]

Jul 24, 2015 18:50:27 GMT -6 GregDarcy said:

Jul 24, 2015 18:33:55 GMT -6 drella said:

Thanks for the info.  I'm really enjoying this game and the Dragon Faire.  I like that it doesn't require constant attention to make progress.  I had tried another game and they seemed to think people had nothing to do but sit there with the game 24/7.  Also, the BFS support people are really great.  I had a response in a day.  In the other game they wouldn't even acknowledge people even on their blog when they asked for comments.  It's also nice to see so many people here have their children playing the game with them.  I also like the positive friendly attitude of this forum.  This is my first venture into social media.  So many places seemed to focus on the snide and nasty that I never felt like they were environments I wanted to belong to.

Actually I think you have it backwards. I know in my case, it was my children who got me into this game. They wanted me to play so I could send them gems. Several years later...

What is this whole sending gems, sending treats, sending gifts thing and how does it work?