Gemshard Colour Ratios

[dancing_serpent]

How did it turn out for you? I caught quite a few Gemshards, but so far Red is definitely the minority on my scroll. This is how it looks for me:

Blue 9
Green 8
Red 2

I still have four unhatched eggs on my scroll, but by now I have started offering on colour swap trades to even out the result.

Comments

[codyne]

I got really lucky. Out of my initial 12 Gems, I got 4 Blues, 5 Greens, and 3 Reds. I only had to swap two (Blue male for Blue female, Green male for Red female) to get 2 pairs of each color. Then I grabbed one extra, which turned out to be Blue. So I'm pretty much done collecting Gemshards.

I saw someone else mention that Red seemed to be the least common color. But then someone else popped up and said they had way more Reds than anything else. So I don't know if it was coincidence, or if Red really is slightly less common. But there seem to be plenty of everything to go around. I had no trouble trading my extra Green for a Red.

[dancing_serpent]

So far I didn't need a gender swap for any colour, so I'm quite happy with that.

I saw someone else mention that Red seemed to be the least common color. But then someone else popped up and said they had way more Reds than anything else.
Yeah, I saw that on the forum, and plenty of people saying oh no, not Red again. There are also lots of trades, so I'm not nervous about that. But yeah, seeing those comments and my own scroll experience was what made me do this post. I'm simply curious. *g*

[kshandra]

...I just realized I completely missed Festival of Eggs this year. *headdesk*

[dancing_serpent]

Aw, that's sad. There were some great ideas again this year.

[jocosa]

I was able to catch four at the original drop, which I influenced as pairs and ended up with 3 Blues, 1 Red. And since then I've had zero luck catching anymore at all.

I would like to end up with mates for the odd Blue and Red, and I would love some Greens as well. I don't feel a need to collect a lot of them, but I do want to add a few more so I have maybe a couple pairs of each color.

[dancing_serpent]

Yeah, right now everybody seems to be hunting for Gemshards. It takes me longer than usual to catch everything I need for my scroll goals, because often I'm not fast enough.

[mondat]

I have to say, these three coloured dragons begin to annoy me ;D
They get picked up SO quickly, unbelievable - well, I AM happy that they still drop and aren't very rare!, though.

I haven't been very active on DC lately(ok, let's say 'not very active on the internet'..the only thing I am doing on my PC is Flight Rising and a bit DC apart from working), but I have: 3 blue, 4 green and 1 red Gemshard. And I had motivation today to watch the Jungle biome for over an hour and picked up 5 new Gemshards. Two misclicks got auto-abandoned, my Vampires and the other dragons on my scroll were nice to me today.

[dancing_serpent]

Oh, really nice of your Vampires! I misclicked yesterday evening, but as it was close to bedtime I just decided to keep it until this morning. Picking up a couple more was easy so early today.

I'm starting to think the color has something to do with the time the eggs get picked up or hatch, because all of mine that were caught/hatched at night (Cavetime) turned out to be either blue or green, and the others turned out red. But maybe that's just coincedence.

[novembermond]

I have only very few gemshards, so results might be skewed. atm I have 3 green and one blue, no reds. I also have a gender problem... :|

[dancing_serpent]

I influenced mine to even numbers, and that worked fine so far. The jury's still out on my Reds, but 3xfemale:2xmale is okay at the moment.

[ragdoll]

5 Green
3 Red
2 Blue

at least one pair of each colour.

I haven't seen them falling at all now, so wondering how rare they'll be.

Any ideas about breeding patterns? Random or do purebreds breed true? (Meaning two reds = 1 red, two blues = 1 blue, two greens = 1 green)

[dancing_serpent]

I still see them falling all the time (have in fact caught another six just yesterday evening), and they're offered in bulks on Dragonmarket, too, so I don't think they'll really be all that rare.

Haven't tried breeding them yet, though. *g*

[ragdoll]

Whenever I go on DC (like a few minutes ago), I don't see any gemshards falling at all. It's just the same super common things. Hopefully they won't be rare so I can catch more later.

I'm just curious about the breeding. I should try it myself, but I'm lazy.

[dancing_serpent]

And I saw two on the last ´55 drop, although I wasn't fast enough to get one of them. *g*

I guess I'll start breeding when I have all the CBs I need for my scroll goals, which isn't reached yet. Still need two more Reds. And then I have the s1 and s2 frozen hatchies to work on, too.