Uhm, opinions?

[dancing_serpent]

So, I got this one here. It's my first bronze Shimmer, so yay! I'm not so sure what to think about that lineage, though. It looks interesting, sure...but well, what do you think of deadlines? Do you think they are pretty? Or that it's cheating, somehow? Or something else? Would you try continuing the lineage?

Comments

[codyne]

Congrats on your Shimmer!

I'm not a huge fan of deadlines, but it's all a matter of taste. I don't think it's "cheating" -- anybody can see the tombstone and nowadays even the lineage behind it. Shimmers are still rare enough that any Shimmer is going to be of some value, so if it were mine, sure I'd breed it, at least until I got something whose lineage I liked better.

I actually did a deadline from a couple of messy inbred tinsels and silvers, back when the lineages disappeared with the tombstones: the final result was this silver tinsel. I just did it for my own amusement, and have never tried to trade any of the dragons from the line, so I have no idea what anyone else would think it's worth.

[dancing_serpent]

Oh, that's beautiful! So you can't see the lineage behind it with the older deadlines, but with the newly created you can? Ugh - that might actually be a reason for me to offer it up for trade again.

[codyne]

Thanks! It took forever, but I do think it turned out pretty.

Yeah, TJ recently changed it so that lineages aren't deleted when dragons die, so you can always click on the tombstone and see the lineage of the killed dragon. There's been a lot of complaining about it, so he might change it back at some point, but who knows?