April Release & Question about May Release

[mondat]

From TJ's post:
Hello all,

The usual monthly release will be delayed a few hours. I'm going to try something new: doing a release during a time when the main audience of the site is actually awake (rather than, you know, at midnight).

Specifically, the new release will happen at 1 PM EST tomorrow. Let's see how it goes.

For me, the new drop time will be at 3am on Monday morning, this means I could catch them right after waking up. And I cannot believe that TJ did not announce such news at least 12 hours earlier, again. There are people who wake up early or have plans changed for the release.

Anyway, I have a question regarding the May release.
Do you think there will be a giant release like in May last year because of DC's birthday? I'm not sure if I should prepare myself and getting me more Red & Pink Dragons...and I have no idea how to deal with it if there will be one, with all the eggs...

Comments

[alicit]

You wouldn't have been able to load up on them even at that time. They came out on the fifth day of the drop. If I remember correctly, the maximum number of dragons you could get to be able to catch some of each breed without been scroll-locked was three or four a day using incubate. There were three different colours of Copper dragons and, of course, the creator said on the forums that they were not rare, so nobody thought that we needed to get rid of the hybrids or if one colour would be harder to get than another. They disappeared the next day and for a long time were harder to get than golds and silvers. I have to say I am still annoyed too.

[krait]

Ahh, okay, yes, I do remember the "are they rare" / "wow they disappeared fast" thing (and despite the spriter's words on the subject, they're still classed as rare by most Cavers and I believe they're right to do so, based on the numbers I see!)

And yes, argh, I had actually misremembered -- I thought they were the 7th release, but you're right, they were fifth, so I was torn between "ooooh, these look pretty, let's get lots!" and "what if the next one is even prettier?" Ultimately I held off for fear of missing a future awesome dragon... which wasn't quite the case, but by then there was no way to lay hold of a Verdigris, since the drop had stopped.

Sigh.