Congrats to all the success on the Plats! This one is evading me as well Debstoy. Fletch I am up to 52 on island with rust and forge and 37 in cave with rust and water. Hoping your odds will show up shortly!
Good thing it is helping toward getting my Panlong the third of my dragons crowned.
Last Edit: Dec 15, 2012 19:57:29 GMT -6 by Deleted
I am down to 35 more dragons to feed up for completing the shrines, but gold is becoming the barrier. I can breed the dragons faster than I can make the gold. I have a couple of old island setups that I think I will change to make more gold. For example, I had a metal island from back when that was good if you didn't check your game often. I can breed more treasures and astronomical dragons instead in the next week or two and replace the oldsetups.
Has anyone noticed the sale price of the Pillar of Prophecy decoration? It is 122,112 DC. Could that mean a special dragon will be released on 12/21/12?
I must say, December has been a good month for me so far. Over the last two weeks I have crossed all of the following off my Christmas list:
two turquoises (adult and egg)
two silvers (turbo baby and egg)
seasonal
second rainbow
blue fire
current
two sandstorms
dodo
and a solstice now breeding in my cave
I got two reindeer and an egg in November, have one glacier by accident and have just added SE and Panlong to my egg display. I still want a LE adult and egg, but I can try for those with my solstice when it hatches.
GCID: NinjaKiwi. *remember the full stop!*
DVID: NinjaKiwi#3970
Currently breeding for whatever twins I can possibly get my hands on
First Platinum hatched. Straight into the EBS with Gold and a second is on it's way. Love it when a plan comes together.
*doink* I didn't even think of this. I don't know why! Been trying for platinum 2 with my original quicksilver/water parents and failing. Will do this next. Guess I've been distracted by my sun/moon upgrades. Loving these!
I am working on changing my islands around..what a job with all the stuff to move around! Just like decorating at home ;-). Any way, I have two of them done and would love feed back. I visited Rob's islands yesterday and really liked the use of the lamps for a black accent. So different from most of us. Anyway, I borrowed (sounds better than stole) his idea for one of my islands. I will probably leave my race track etc. island alone and of course Rudolph's island until after the Holidays. Still have 3 messes to clean up though. Go take a peek.
I must say, December has been a good month for me so far. Over the last two weeks I have crossed all of the following off my Christmas list:
two turquoises (adult and egg)
two silvers (turbo baby and egg)
seasonal
second rainbow
blue fire
current
two sandstorms
dodo
and a solstice now breeding in my cave
I got two reindeer and an egg in November, have one glacier by accident and have just added SE and Panlong to my egg display. I still want a LE adult and egg, but I can try for those with my solstice when it hatches.
Thats some serious koala ya got there.
Came back because my relatives sleep waaaay to loud (snoring, loud breathing, etc) & I csnt handle it!!! Ugh.
You know that thing where people go back and find year book photos and post them to embarrass you? Well here are the first posts of our mods, past and present (most from that other forum)
Poppy
I just signed up for this great forum after gettings lots of information here. I'll introduce myself and then provide a tip that works well for a combination of raising gold coins and for producing premium dragons.
o My Level: 28
o Dragons: I have at least one of every dragon at level 15, except of course the premium dragons which max out at level 10
I really like the babies and I have one of each dragon at level 3, except I'm still missing my second Moon dragon
o Islands: I have all of the islands - my favorite is the Nursery Island with all the babies, the breeding cave and the egg nursery
o Shrines: All shrines are silver. I was irritated when the latest upgrade introduced gold shrines with level 20 dragons, but didn't give any credit for the 40 or so I already had at level 15. I think I'm going to pass on going for gold shrines - doesn't seem like its worth the immense effort.
o My park is under birdmaestro
Now the tip. Today I have been going all out on trying to get my moon baby. I have tried all the usual moon combinations mentioned here and, although I still haven't gotten the moon yet I've made an interesting discovery. The Sonic + Storm combo is killer. I've tried it 23 times today and have gotten three 48 dragons - unfortunately they're all Suns. But the good news is that the dominant dragons produced when you don't get a 48 hour one are all great to sell:
This was all done this morning. I don't know if there is anything to the Sun/Moon time of day theory, but I'm going to try it again tonight.
koala with your park!
Fletch_smf
So at the end of last year my wife tells me about DragonVale. I ask how you win. She tells me it's not that sort of game and explains it to me. I tell her I don't really have time for it. She tells me just to download the app and ship her a gem every day ... I wouldn't even have to play. 24 hours later I'm hopelessly addicted.
We all made a rule that we had to earn everything in the game rather than spend money to get things the easy way, but we made an exception to buy enough gems for the Breeding Island, because we really enjoyed the game and figured we should give something back to the company.
Just posting here to say hello and introduce myself. My Dragonvale experience is summed up in my signature. Started keeping track of my breeding combinations from Jan 16th. 92 so far.
I have seen some posts about great island layouts. Would love to check some out. And would appreciate any feedback on my layout.
Thanks for all the informative posts. I have not read the entire thread, but will try and keep up with new posts from this point on.
Cheers Fletch_smf
GT500Girl
Hi all. My name is Shellee. I have been following this thread for a couple of weeks now. I haven't posted mainly because I didn't have anything to input. I am stuck like a lot of others trying to get the Rainbow dragon. I'm still trying the Firefly/Seaweed combo switching them back and forth with no luck yet. I had all the other dragons until I woke up this morning.
I am not sure if I'm correct or not but from reading the descriptions it seems to me you have to get the Sun dragon first. Now looking at the flag for the Sun my first assumption is that you have to breed Water and Lightening. I am assuming this because of the color of the flag. Guess anything is possible. I am not sure on the Moon yet but I'm thinking again from reading the descriptions it could possibly be Sun and Cold that make the Moon. The color of that flag though is stumping me if my other theory is correct. Or will we finally be able to breed the Rainbow dragon with another and would it be that we would breed Rainbow and Cold? Hmmm...would love to hear others theories. All I know now is that I really, really need another island. What a nightmare it will be for me to sell dragons and move things around since my islands are SO full all ready. *sigh*
Oh! And since we can't breed Lightening/Water maybe a hybrid of Water.
Doesn't look like that will maybe work either. Lol. Back to the drawing board. I will post if I come up with anything.
Phibes74
I am new at this about a week... I can not get some of these dragons... What am I doing wrong. I have tried all combos... HELP!!!!!!
250Strong
Hey guys! I signed up to this forum just because of Dragonvale.
Currently I'm a level 25 and I have completed all the goals, and every acheivement except for the Double Rainbow. I have gotten rid of all of my plant habitats except for 1 (its a shame the max coin is 500), all my lightning habitats except for 2 and multiples of all other habitats except for rainbow (only 1). I have upgraded my Plant and Fire shrines to Silver, and very close on Lightning shrine and Earth shrine.
In terms of RARE DRAGONS, I have been quite lucky and persistent.
3 MOONS 2 SUNS 1 RAINBOW 3 BLUE FIRE 2 SANDSTORM 7 REINDEER (I'm aiming for 12 and naming each after one of Santa's reindeer)
I just wanted to run a couple strategies and questions by you Dragonvale experts..... I use 9 out of 10 Huge Treat Farms to grown Dragon Fruit, and buy and sell the last Huge Treat Farm over and over again.
Is the BEST (most efficient) way to level up XP to buy and sell one HUGE TREAT FARM over and over again?? You spend $750K in cash, but you get 750K in XP instantly. (1 XP for 1 dollar) What other methods are there? (Buy/Sell Fire Statue - 1 XP for 2 dollars)
Is the fastest way to get CASH, to breed water and fire for Air and sell for $500K every 2 hours? What other methods are there?
I'm not really too into exchanging gems, because the only thing I've bought with my gems was the epic breeding island. What do you guys do with your gems?
Last question: Was the BONE DRAGON a limited edition dragon? and is it too late to get it? Too bad I only started playing this a couple months ago.
Thats all the questions I got. I really appreciate your responses. koala in your quests for breeding your rare dragons.
250strong
Vivianne
Hello to everyone on this forum! I have been lurking since a while and felt is now time to join the club if you allow me to do so. So far i have not been adding any friends but of course will revise this now. I would also be grateful to visit other player's islands. I have been fortunate enough to breed almost all of my dragons by pure luck when i started in october, not realizing how some were so difficult to breed! Beginners luck probably. Of course i have read each and every message and made notes. Resulting in masses of little pieces of paper ! Fyi i am located in switzerand.
TommyB
Stupidest question in the world, but is there a similar game around? Enjoying Dragonvale a lot, would like to have something similar and cute to run alongside.
PixieWA
Hello Forum Folks
Time to come out of lurkdom and introduce myself. The first thing I really have to do is thank you wonderful folks for all the helpful info you have posted, for a new player like me it makes all the difference in the world not to have to constantly reinvent the wheel. Learning how to use the search feature on this forum was the 2nd most wonderful thing.
This forum seems to be filled with friendly, helpful people who get along very well. Very unusual in today's hit and run, say any hurtful thing you want to non-ethics atmosphere. I think I will really like it here.
Have been playing now for about 3 weeks and am very happy with my progress, so far. Still have lots of rares to find, and have just recently started looking towards shrine totals, so there is still much to keep me interested. So much more to learn, but am very confident this is the place to get the needed help.
My GC is in my signature, would have preferred to have my profile name PixieWA to match my GC, but can't figure out how to change it or delete the ShirleyWA acct.
Myke
Not sure if this has come up before... BUT Dear BFS it would be really nice to be able to sort the friends' list by column, or have the list remember where you were in your scrolling when going around visiting friends. I have no idea how the list is ordered, and I'm pretty sure it changes around.
Pam
Technical question - How on earth (or floating islands) do you get friends? I sent a friend offer via Game Centre. As I went to answer a call on my iPhone I saw something about "X accepted your friend offer" but when I finished the call I could find no record of it. Nothing on Dragonvale friends, nothing on Game Centre friends, nothing on the pull down alerts, not even any record on Game Centre of the message I originally sent out! I'm stumped, any ideas please?
We were all sooo innocent and wouldn t have bet that we would still be pampering our dragons one Xmas later. Ohhhhh maybe Mrs Fletch should make a Xmas dragon pamper lol
Post by mishkasmom on Dec 16, 2012 12:40:29 GMT -6
Gee, it sounds like our mods started out like most of the rest of us & weren't born with all the techniques already in their heads. That's encouraging for newbies, lol. Also, everyone has stayed true & consistent & I still don't understand how you all could have done anything to get yourselves banned anywhere! "That other forum" must have been a doozey!
I am working on changing my islands around..what a job with all the stuff to move around! Just like decorating at home ;-). Any way, I have two of them done and would love feed back. I visited Rob's islands yesterday and really liked the use of the lamps for a black accent. So different from most of us. Anyway, I borrowed (sounds better than stole) his idea for one of my islands. I will probably leave my race track etc. island alone and of course Rudolph's island until after the Holidays. Still have 3 messes to clean up though. Go take a peek.
Shannon GCID ShanRese
You & Rob really have a good eye; I think your islands & outposts are terrific! Really like your idea of using the various decorations to add that extra detail of color accents & color combos. And, Rob, the blacks lamp posts are brilliant! Some interior designer was once quoted as saying every room needs a touch of black. Great utilization of that accent, really sets things off. I'm going to borrow (ok, steal) ideas from both of you to add to the ideas I have already " borrowed" from others. So much fun to see the different designs people develop using the same elements.
Well, I almost had a heart attack this morning. My WIFI was acting up and i rebooted everything and opened DV on my iPad and got a picture of a little island with nothing on it!!!! No EBC with a Turquoise egg breeding, no gold shrines, NO EGGS displayed! Not to mention the exquisite Large Sun habitat, etc, etc. Oh, I don't have the patience to this all again, I moaned.
Then I came to my senses and signed into the game center and opened the game from there and breathed a sigh of relief. It was all back. WHEW!!!
I am working on changing my islands around..what a job with all the stuff to move around! Just like decorating at home ;-). Any way, I have two of them done and would love feed back. I visited Rob's islands yesterday and really liked the use of the lamps for a black accent. So different from most of us. Anyway, I borrowed (sounds better than stole) his idea for one of my islands. I will probably leave my race track etc. island alone and of course Rudolph's island until after the Holidays. Still have 3 messes to clean up though. Go take a peek.
Shannon GCID ShanRese
You & Rob really have a good eye; I think your islands & outposts are terrific! Really like your idea of using the various decorations to add that extra detail of color accents & color combos. And, Rob, the blacks lamp posts are brilliant! Some interior designer was once quoted as saying every room needs a touch of black. Great utilization of that accent, really sets things off. I'm going to borrow (ok, steal) ideas from both of you to add to the ideas I have already " borrowed" from others. So much fun to see the different designs people develop using the same elements.
Gee thanks! We all "share" ideas and put our own twist on it.
Post by Maidy (Maid4Life) on Dec 16, 2012 16:45:32 GMT -6
I shall try singing...."All I want for Christmas is a Plat-in-num. A Plat-in-num. A Plat-in-num. All I want for Christmas is a Plat-in-num..." If this doesn't work I may have to start bribing BFS with chocolate.
Always treat others as you would like to be treated. GCID: Maid4Life
'... overwhelming goodwill, and witty humour, profound grace and compassion blended with the spice of relentless taunts.'
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