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According to a reddit thread on the issue, BFS are aware and working on a fix.

I did pretty well at essence collection, earning an extra airship's worth almost every day. I had enough to get all the prizes (including all eggs) except for the Enchanted dragons with almost 10000 to spare. I didn't have a lot of luck breeding the enchanteds, though, finally getting an EnNorth over 3/4ths of the way through the event. I then managed to breed an EnEast in the final day after blowing almost my entire gem nest egg, but EnSouth and EnWest eluded me with the final few gems I had remaining. After buying the uniques plus an extra exploration habitat to display all my normals and my two enchanteds, I was left with 16013 essence. So then I had a choice to make: buy all the remaining egg prizes with almost 10000 left over (which was not enough to buy either of the dragons), or buy an EnSouth for 16000 with only 13 left over. I opted to buy the EnSouth and wait for a future opportunity to get the eggs (and the EnWest). So I ended up with three of the four enchanteds and filled the remaining slot in the habitat with one of my extra Hieroglyph dragons. I'm extremely confident they'll offer us another shot at the missing dragons and eggs in the future (c'mon, it's BFS!).

I'm happy with my decision. I'd have been annoyed to leave almost 10000 essence on the table even if they do convert to food the way it does in original DV.

As a slightly OCD completist that likes to check every box, this drives me nuts. Nuts I tell you.

Actually, Apple has not abandoned GC, rather they've changed it from a service with a supporting app into a pure service. Since the app is gone, GC games must now handle friend requests on their own. This had the side effect of binding a new GC friend link to each subscribing game individually (so that a friend request in game A wouldn't create an associated friend link in game B). Having reviewed the API, which generates the friend request as an iMessage and is actually quite simple, I'm surprised (and a bit disappointed) that BFS hasn't just done the work to make the friend request. My guess is that doing so is somehow incompatible with the friending plans they have going forward.

Hmmm, I noticed that the new Iceberry meter drained itself to zero without me having to reset my park (by leaving/re-entering). That may mean that the days of extended doubles are behind us...

Ok Jubileers (is that a word?), I have added my Iceberry collection guide to the first page of this thread. This guide will help you maximize your collected Iceberries so you can buy MORE STUFF THAN YOU HAVE ROOM FOR ON YOUR ISLANDS!

Note that this was adapted from previous Frostival events and not everything has been verified yet this year (I will correct the guide if the Frosty Jubilee deviates from years past). If you note anything incorrect, please let me know.

This is sliced bread levels of great!

I'm assuming the strategy with the leper sale is only necessary if you are NOT friends with the trader (since finding a friend's store is directly supported)? Edit: Although, with so many people playing now it might be VERY difficult to find a specific store you're not friends with!

Perhaps the store latency is fixed now they've gone into full release... has anybody tried recently?

I don't use FB for gaming (all my friends are legacy GameCenter) so I'd still need to coordinate through PMs here.

Turns out there's already a thread for this (which I didn't realize until I looked into creating one!). Follow the purple path.

We should start posting requests over there. Timing could get tricky though. Fletch touches on the difficulty of trading to a known user in a public store in the first post. Requesters should post about a need (item / count / deadline BFS Time) and then fulfillers could offer to help. At that point the two traders should probably coordinate the time for the trade (maybe via PM to avoid spamming the thread) to minimize exposure on the store. Items are harder to find if they aren't advertised, but I've had items sell even when there aren't any adverts at all (probably to friends since as far as I know there's no way for a random shopper to find your store unless you have at least one advert active).

Edit: Forgot to mention, I did get lucky and find some petrified water on the store, but it took much longer than most other resources!

Unfortunately GameCenter friending is broken else I would add you . I'm not sure of the current state of Facebook friending (I don't game through Facebook), maybe someone else can weigh in here with some thoughts? The downside to Facebook is that you do have to reveal more personal info than some folks are comfortable with (although you can tighten your security to minimize that).

Since I started the game with existing GameCenter friends it didn't even occur to me that DVW apparently doesn't even have Nogard as a demo friend.