I have discovered the missing variable in my attempts to breed a Mirror dragon: inattention! I failed to check the breeding time on my last attempt and was met with a surprise Mirror dragon when I went to hatch the sucker (I was also inattentive to the color of the metal patches on the egg)! So, if you're still trying to breed a Mirror, simply pay no attention to what you're doing, it will certainly be a Mirror dragon*
* Standard restrictions apply, your mileage may vary.
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October can be a stressful month for new players, so many dragons to chase after, plus this Halloween event. Koalas!
It is very imposing as a new player, especially with the two eclipses this time around. I'm fortunate in that I managed to pick up the Solar Eclipse dragon during the Celestial Comeback shortly after I started so there's only... six new limiteds I think for me to get this month. Five to breed if Nosferatu is awarded like in the previous events. It's still busier than pretty much any other month appears to be, bar the December madness of the Bring Em Back event.
I'm just hoping that no other new dragons are released this month; we are perilously close to 200, and the potential dragon for that and/or rerelease of Century would be too much for one month. Much better suited to the relative quiet in November, I think...
Welcome to the forum!
From your post I assume you already have an action plan in place. Just want to point out, Bone costs 25 gems, quite inexpensive. The next Lunar Eclipse will be around April 2015, I think. BeB was very fun, and I have a feeling that it will be fun for new players too. Every time "Breed" is pressed, a glimpse of a new dragon causes me to smile...and it was 196+ smiles this past year.
Thanks for asking! I'm sorry, I have really been slowing down on my Dragonvale and haven't been on the forum in a while. Checked in today for the new candy event.
We had a baby boy, born September 4th. 9 pounds, 15 oz. Alexander Eli.
The baby has been doing great! The parents however, not so much. I got pneumonia a week after he was born and have had it for four weeks now. My wife had some complications which have caused her a good deal of pain and I haven't been able to help as much as I should with the pneumonia. Plus we have a 2.5 year old girl and 10 year old boy as well. But we are now over the hump, not 100% but things are looking up greatly after somewhat of a tough month! At least the baby has been great!
Love those pics, thanks for sharing. Congrats on the new arrival, glad that all is back on track...after the first year, everything will be smooth sailing again. One year is not that long Best wishes always. Xx
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Platform: iOS Currently Sharing: It changes so often! Accepting New Gifts: Sorry, no. But, always happy to have new breeding and party hat friends!!! Forum Name to Tag: shoemom
Thanks for asking! I'm sorry, I have really been slowing down on my Dragonvale and haven't been on the forum in a while. Checked in today for the new candy event.
We had a baby boy, born September 4th. 9 pounds, 15 oz. Alexander Eli.
The baby has been doing great! The parents however, not so much. I got pneumonia a week after he was born and have had it for four weeks now. My wife had some complications which have caused her a good deal of pain and I haven't been able to help as much as I should with the pneumonia. Plus we have a 2.5 year old girl and 10 year old boy as well. But we are now over the hump, not 100% but things are looking up greatly after somewhat of a toul
Happy to have a new event, but it's very frustrating when you can't visit friends without the game crashing (been happening for several days now). Closed all applications and rebooted my iPad and now it just stalls on the new load screen, so I can't get into the game at all.
Happy to have a new event, but it's very frustrating when you can't visit friends without the game crashing (been happening for several days now). Closed all applications and rebooted my iPad and now it just stalls on the new load screen, so I can't get into the game at all.
Any suggestions?
Cecilia at the Duckpond
Everytime I go into the Gifts screen as soon as the app opens, it crashes. if I close all other running programs and let the app load before going in it does better.
Happy to have a new event, but it's very frustrating when you can't visit friends without the game crashing (been happening for several days now). Closed all applications and rebooted my iPad and now it just stalls on the new load screen, so I can't get into the game at all.
Any suggestions?
Cecilia at the Duckpond
Other things that have helped in the past: Remove push notifications for everything not just DV Turn off WiFi unless you are using it. If you are, turn off 3G Uninstall and reinstall DV Send an email to BFS
Main GCID: GregDarcy Secondary: GregDarcyToo All gems friends spoken for. Happy to accept friends for party hats. I blame Apple's auto incorrect for all my typos. I actively discourage challenges. All challengers are unfriended.
Happy to have a new event, but it's very frustrating when you can't visit friends without the game crashing (been happening for several days now). Closed all applications and rebooted my iPad and now it just stalls on the new load screen, so I can't get into the game at all.
Any suggestions?
Cecilia at the Duckpond
Other things that have helped in the past: Remove push notifications for everything not just DV Turn off WiFi unless you are using it. If you are, turn off 3G Uninstall and reinstall DV Send an email to BFS
If all else fails: reset phone.
I actually have to reset my phone quite often :/ It's pretty annoying.
Happy to have a new event, but it's very frustrating when you can't visit friends without the game crashing (been happening for several days now). Closed all applications and rebooted my iPad and now it just stalls on the new load screen, so I can't get into the game at all.
Any suggestions?
Cecilia at the Duckpond
Other things that have helped in the past: Remove push notifications for everything not just DV Turn off WiFi unless you are using it. If you are, turn off 3G Uninstall and reinstall DV Send an email to BFS
Another suggestion: open GameCentre and remove friends. Sounds awful! But I used to have huge issues with DV crashing when I was more involved running the LAST CALL competitions. I used to have 340 friends. Each time DV social started acting up, I would remove 100 or so friends and voila, perfect... for a while.
Another suggestion: open GameCentre and remove friends. Sounds awful! But I used to have huge issues with DV crashing when I was more involved running the LAST CALL competitions. I used to have 340 friends. Each time DV social started acting up, I would remove 100 or so friends and voila, perfect... for a while.
There's a lot of wisdom there. I'm not crashing in my baby park and its the same iphone.
Last Edit: Oct 9, 2014 18:23:43 GMT -6 by vonfirmath
From your post I assume you already have an action plan in place. Just want to point out, Bone costs 25 gems, quite inexpensive. The next Lunar Eclipse will be around April 2015, I think. BeB was very fun, and I have a feeling that it will be fun for new players too. Every time "Breed" is pressed, a glimpse of a new dragon causes me to smile...and it was 196+ smiles this past year.
Thanks for the welcome. I'm a bit forum-phobic due to some bad experiences in the past, but you have such a nice atmosphere here I couldn't resist.
Yep, I'm plotted out until January with the help of Bloodstone's thread and Bone is on the lowest priority this month, especially as I've not had any luck with Opal yet and I could get one from that pair if the Grand Koala deigns to stop giving me Geode after Geode. (This counts as a whine, right? I hear they help. ) Thanks for alerting me about the next Lunar Eclipse though, that means it can go down in priority a bit too. (Though I will keep trying for it, unless Zombie is re-released early.)
The problem is that I am a terrible completionist, and missing limiteds when they're available makes me sad. So far, I've not missed any since July, but there have been a number of close calls. I got my Ruby breeding with under 10 minutes left on its timer, having woken up to have one last try. I am thoroughly addicted. Really, I'm just a worrier by nature, and seeing such a large list of targets for the month is a little intimidating. I know I'll love it when it's here though. I guess I should try and take the game a little less seriously, to help me enjoy the ride more. Not that I'm not enjoying it, I love the new dragon feeling just as much as everyone else here!
Speaking of the BeB event: I was playing with the sandbox looking at the 'retired' dragons, to see if any combos could double up on them, and I noticed an oddly high target % for the Rift Dragons from breeding Mirage+Mirage or Shadow+Shadow. I can understand how this could be accurate as a quirk in the breeding rules, but I'm still a bit dubious of it. That it reads 110% chance from Dark Rift+Light Rift if you target both doesn't help my suspicions either. Any thought on whether it'd be worthwhile to get a duplicate light/dark opposite for this purpose? It'd certainly be helpful if true: 48h breeds, fails for each other, and you can't tell which you have until they've hatched. Yeah, there could be many Koalas needed there.
From your post I assume you already have an action plan in place. Just want to point out, Bone costs 25 gems, quite inexpensive. The next Lunar Eclipse will be around April 2015, I think. BeB was very fun, and I have a feeling that it will be fun for new players too. Every time "Breed" is pressed, a glimpse of a new dragon causes me to smile...and it was 196+ smiles this past year.
Thanks for the welcome. I'm a bit forum-phobic due to some bad experiences in the past, but you have such a nice atmosphere here I couldn't resist.
Yep, I'm plotted out until January with the help of Bloodstone's thread and Bone is on the lowest priority this month, especially as I've not had any luck with Opal yet and I could get one from that pair if the Grand Koala deigns to stop giving me Geode after Geode. (This counts as a whine, right? I hear they help. ) Thanks for alerting me about the next Lunar Eclipse though, that means it can go down in priority a bit too. (Though I will keep trying for it, unless Zombie is re-released early.)
The problem is that I am a terrible completionist, and missing limiteds when they're available makes me sad. So far, I've not missed any since July, but there have been a number of close calls. I got my Ruby breeding with under 10 minutes left on its timer, having woken up to have one last try. I am thoroughly addicted. Really, I'm just a worrier by nature, and seeing such a large list of targets for the month is a little intimidating. I know I'll love it when it's here though. I guess I should try and take the game a little less seriously, to help me enjoy the ride more. Not that I'm not enjoying it, I love the new dragon feeling just as much as everyone else here!
Speaking of the BeB event: I was playing with the sandbox looking at the 'retired' dragons, to see if any combos could double up on them, and I noticed an oddly high target % for the Rift Dragons from breeding Mirage+Mirage or Shadow+Shadow. I can understand how this could be accurate as a quirk in the breeding rules, but I'm still a bit dubious of it. That it reads 110% chance from Dark Rift+Light Rift if you target both doesn't help my suspicions either. Any thought on whether it'd be worthwhile to get a duplicate light/dark opposite for this purpose? It'd certainly be helpful if true: 48h breeds, fails for each other, and you can't tell which you have until they've hatched. Yeah, there could be many Koalas needed there.
Glad you overcame your bad experience and joined up. We have really great members, and it makes being an admin super easy!
I don't know that any testing has been done to support the opposite/opposite giving a higher percentage than the other combos. It'd be interesting to find out. Anyone with a test account be interested in looking at it?
I have been saving gems and waiting to upgrade some of my habitats to Giant until the next event comes around, and now it's here! I'm super excited :-) The Firefly Festival was my first event and I had a lot of fun with it. But, I am unsure of how many Giant habitats of each type to buy. My ultimate goal is to have two of each dragon (one adult, one baby). So for those of you who have all the dragons - is there enough habitats available at level 60 to display 2 of each dragon? If so, how many of each type of Giant habitat do you have? I don't want to buy a bunch of Giant habitats and not have enough room or habitat allowance to display all the Epic dragons. Thanks for any advice!
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