Favourites?

[dancing_serpent]

So, the Day 7 dragons grew up on TJs scroll, and I'm curious what you think about the whole birthday release. Which are your favourites, which ones didn't you like so much? Do you have any breeding plans for them already?

My own favourites are the Bloodscales, the Black Capped Teimarr and the Coppers. No breeding plans yet, I first want to catch all my usual CB pairs.

I'm not so fond of the Black Teas, the Black Tips and the Seragamma - and I don't care at all for the Hellhorses. But I like a "complete" scroll, so I'm going to collect/breed all of them as well.

As a general thought, I was surprised how well the seven day release worked for me. Huge part of the reason were the incubates and skipping the hybrid for now - even with catching more than two eggs I had always room on my scroll for the next new egg.

Comments

[alicit]

The Bloodscales are my favourite. I liked the S1 Black Tea, but I don't like the adults at all.

Collecting them was quite smooth during the release week, thanks to the incubates and getting up at stupid o'clock in the mornings just to click on eggs, but because I collect so many of each breed I still need to catch trade a lot of them. The three versions of the Coppers didn't help at all.

Something that I find slightly annoying at the moment is the ilogical or unnecessarily complicated/long names of some new breeds - Black Capped Teimarr? it is the only Teimarr, why do you need to add Black Capped (and what is a Teimarr, while we are at it?)? Black Tea? Gilded Bloodscale is at least descriptive and Copper is nice, short and to the point, but some of the others are just pretentious. */rant*

[dancing_serpent]

Hee...yeah, I did google Teimarr because I've never heard it before. Only thing I've found so far is teimar as a Portuguese word (to be obstinate, or something). I'm not so fond of the overly long names, too.

I'm always up at stupid o'clock on workdays, so that worked out just fine. But with this release I noticed I had a lot more luck three/four hours after the initial release started.

I'm far from complete, too. Have a lot more to catch still, as I'm usually collecting four CB pairs of each breed/alt. Not sure I manage to get them all before the next new release, even if we have to wait until July now.

[nan]

Oh man, the Hellhorses are my faaaavorites. I like the Bloodscale Dragonss, the Teimarrs, the Blacktips, and the Seragamma. The Coppers are okay but I really am not fond at all of the Black Teas. :\

I never initially had room on my scroll for the new eggs and always had to wait for something to hatch. XD I still don't have the one Copper egg but I'll worry about it later! I really enjoyed these releases anyway, they were kind of exciting. XD

[dancing_serpent]

I'm curious, what do you like about the Hellhorses? To me they look pretty much like exactly what they are - hybrids of Horse and Hellfire, kind of unspectacular? Also, I really don't like the Horse dragons anyway. *g*

But then I don't like most hybrids in general - they "force" me to breed dragons I've never even considered breeding in the first place, just for the sake of a "complete" scroll.

*sigh* The Black Teas...the egg is so pretty, but the adult is rather disappointing.

Definitely exciting! I'm not really going to worry about getting all my CB pairs - with so many new eggs I already know it will take some time.

[codyne]

Heh. I love the Hellhorses. Hellfire Wyverns were already some of my favorite dragons (the females, at least, I was never so fond of the males, but I like their colors), and I like horses, although the horse dragons were not high on my radar. I want to do a checker with them, using females from male Horse x female Hellfire and males from male Hellfire x female Horse. I already have one that I bred and three that I picked up on the AP when the eggs people bred and abandoned started showing up.

As for the others, hm. The Black Caps are kind of meh, to me. The colors are nice but the dragons aren't anything special for me. I like the Bloodscales, but they'll only breed with Splits, which I like, but I don't think they go very well together. So, it's purebreds or nothing, until someone makes a new 2-headed dragon. I really like the Black Teas -- I love that reddish color, and I like their bold and well-defined contours.

The Coppers are really attractive, but I'm waiting to see how they breed -- if they throw random colors, the way the Dorsals and Ridgewings and Nebulas do, I probably won't try to do any lineage projects with them, unless maybe purebreeds. It's hard enough breeding dragons without having to try to get the right color! And they look to be uncommon, at least, although maybe they'll be more available once the initial frenzy has died down. I did manage to get my four CBs of the brown ones, and two of the reds, but only one green, which I think is my favorite color. I haven't seen a single one in the biomes since their first day, but I traded for two and caught one in the AP.

Let's see, then the Blacktips and Seragamma, neither of them really catch my eye, but maybe I'll feel differently once they grow up on my scroll. :)

I ended up with at least three of each, and have since caught my 4th Black Tea, Black Cap, and Seragamma. (Too many new dragons starting with "Black"! Too confusing.) Still need one more Bloodscale and Blacktip, and more red and green Coppers.

The release went all right, I guess. I have endless incubates and influences, so I was able to stuff my scroll to its limits. I now wish I hadn't kept the one Hellhorse I bred and caught one more Teimarr on Day 4, so I'd have had 6 open slots instead of 4 for the Coppers. Then I could have gotten 1 pair of each color to start with. But at the time, it was hard to tell how easy they'd be to catch later, so I just kept the four.

The Javascript thing and all the lag frustrated the heck out of me. Overall, I think I found it all more stressful than enjoyable. Okay for a once a year thing, but I'm glad it's over now!

[dancing_serpent]

I actually love the Hellfires, but I really adore the female Hellfire Wyverns! *g* The horses, though...well, the colour is pretty.

Yeah, I mostly like the Black Caps for the colours, and the pattern on the wings of the females. Could see myself doing a checker of female Black Cap x male Tri-Horn sometime in the future.

I'm really hoping for more two headed dragons now, because I love the Bloodscales a lot. And like you, I don't think they go well together with the Splits. Style too different, colour too similar. Too much/not enough contrast all at once.

I definitely like the green Coppers best. But yeah, same thoughts on breeding behaviour. I'm having enough stress with my purebred Red Dorsal project, I don't need another one that might be even worse. Haven't seen one in the biomes, either - missed a couple on the AP, though.

I definitely had enough incubates - what surprised me a bit was that I almost was short on influences. Had I not had less luck with the Coppers - only got four altogether, 1 brown, 1 red, 2 green (so I only influenced the greens) - I would have run out. Memo to myself, stock up on Pinks.

[alicit]

I have to admit that I didn't influence any eggs this time. Because I want 3 CB pairs per breed, I thought that I would let the first wave gender naturally and I would influence the second wave as needed. I have been very lucky so far. Of each group of three I got 2+1 genderwise, except for the Black Caps, but a quick trip to the "Hatchling didn't gender right? Trade them here!" thread sorted it quickly.

Edited because I meant I didn't influence.

[dancing_serpent]

Right, I keep forgetting there's such a thread. *g*

[ragdoll]

It was an interesting week. The stress of it all didn't help since it was a little too crazy, and of course, it happened during the one week I had things to do where I couldn't sit on the computer all day/night. But it all worked out okay in the end.

I really like the Bloodscales and hope we don't have to wait another 7 years for a third two-headed dragon. They don't really fit in with the splits, esp personality-wise, so I'd like to see other variants.

I love the Coppers, esp the greens, and like everyone else, I haven't seen a single one in any biome since the day they dropped. My mom gave me her one green so I could have complete pairs of all three. We figured we'd get her another pair, and now... yeah. Oh well, I can always try to breed 'em for her.

I also like the Black Tea dragons although the name is silly. Why not just Tea dragons? (Esp since they're red). I think the hatchlings are actually too cutesy, but they grow up pretty. The eggs were far more promising than the actual dragon though. Something with that red/black pattern would've been much nicer. I also like the Hellhorses, but I also am very fond of the Hellfires and the Horses (although I wish there were other colour schemes for those). I was also grateful for a hybrid pair in the middle of things just to get one day of rest. I waited to breed them until yesterday.

I'm not that crazy about the Black Caps, the Black Tips or the Seragamma. They're not horrible (like the Olives or the Sulfurs for me), but they don't really inspire me to want more. Plus like alicit said, the names are all just ridiculous.

I used influence and incubate on nearly all of them. Of course, now it seems like it's taking forever for the pinks to reset, and I need desperately need one for a tinsel I picked up on the Forum (and it's not something I can trade for in the 'wrong gender' thread). Eep!

[dancing_serpent]

I'm really curious about the Coppers - maybe it's really just an artificial rareness/rarity(?) at the moment. But I've seen people hoarding eggs/hatchies and trading them for Shimmerscales.

The Olives, oh my - to me they look a little bit like wood ticks. Another breed I'm not going to use for breeding unless someone requests a certain pairing.

Yeah, I'm a bit nervous having to wait until tomorrow to have the next influences back - I need to take care of a Soulpeace egg and I do tend to forget those things.

[codyne]

I think the thing with the Coppers is that with three variants, people need 3x as many for their scroll goals, so they're in very high demand right now. Heck, I traded a Shimmerscale for a pair of brown Coppers. For people who can breed metals and prizes and don't really need a lot else, it's a good way to fill your scroll goals. And it helps newer players who are good catchers but don't have a lot of rares get good stuff. I might try to breed some more Golds or Shimmers to trade for green and red Coppers.

I have... 74 Pink dragons, so I never run short of influences. If anybody needs an egg influenced & hatched, I'd be happy to do it.

[dancing_serpent]

Yeah, I mean - it's the same for me. :) Have to collect 12 CB pairs for my scroll, and I would totally trade a Shimmerscale myself. Wanted to, actually, but my Shimmer didn't want to breed yesterday.

[ragdoll]

74 pinks? Wow -- that's an army right there. :) I need to start breeding/picking some up and expanding. I think I have about 16, but they all ran out at the end of the week, and for some reason, they seem to be taking longer than a week to refuel.

right now, it seems impossible to catch much of anything. The cave and the AP are lagging so badly that I'm not catching anything I see (and it seems like its taking about 15-20 seconds to refresh the AP for me). Of course, my mom managed to catch a cheese for herself today without trying -- it told her it was already taken, but then it was there on her scroll, so go fig.

I may take you up on the bronze tinsel if my pink female doesn't come back fast enough and it looks like time is running out on it. I'm sitting on my mom's first bronze shimmerscale because she has so few pinks and ran out of influences, and she wanted it to gender correctly.

[ragdoll]

I think part of it is artificial rareness -- despite the fact that the maker has repeatedly said they're not rare, people keep insisting they're rare. Then again, the Blusangs aren't supposed to be rare either, and I haven't seen one in forever.

The Olives are just awful. They look like squished olives to me -- but yeah, wood ticks are a good description too. I nabbed a pair when they first came out just to have them, but urgh, I don't want them!

I am going to be running my poor bronze down to the last minute and pray the pink I need to influence it comes back first. I'm such an idiot cos I thought I'd influenced it, then went and influenced my second (bred) Hellhorse which could have waited. If I'd had any brains at all, I'd have doublechecked first.

[dancing_serpent]

The Blusangs baffle me a bit - I had no problems collecting my four CB couples, even if I only caught one in the initial release. I kept seeing them often enough - even traded some CB Blusangs for other breeds I had more trouble catching (like the Tri-Horns - I really didn't have much luck with them at first).

Now, well, it's not that I see them all the time, like other breeds - but at least as often as I see the Trio eggs.

[jocosa]

The only one I really like a lot is the Bloodscale.

The ones I sort of like are the Coppers and Hellhorse. The Coppers I liked better as hatchies though. The adult males make me think of Gargoyles. And of the Hellhorses I only like the females, due to their color. Eventually I'll either breed or trade for a couple but I'm in no hurry. And I swear they look super familiar, especially the male. I keep thinking I've seen them before, and not on the forums. Like a cartoon series or old movie or something.

The Teas, I am so disappointed in. It was the only egg I collected 4 of at the drop because I loved the egg color. I am not liking the adults at all, so doubt I will breed them unless I see a lineage pairing I find really striking. The females remind me too much of the Rosebuds, which I really don't like. Something about the males just looks off to me.

The rest were ok, but I won't collect anymore and probably won't breed them either. Some seemed a bit undefined to me, lacking in detail. And agreed on the names. A bit over the top. I'm also bummed that out of all the awesome designs I've seen waiting for some love and recognition, he went with these. And, went with spriters already in the cave for the most part.

I was catching at around 2:15am cave time most nights so had no problem getting what I wanted. I went with 2 most nights, 4 on the Teas (Which I regret), 4-5 on the Coppers (All browns, which I traded the next day for pairs), then 3 on the last night. I created a Red army a while back, so I can incubate as much as needed for a two week span and not run out, same on Pinks. Well, I have fewer Pinks since they return to work in just a week, versus the Reds two week downtime. I was tired of breeding my pairs so took a break and only bred or traded for Reds and Pinks till I had all I needed.

ETA - The other bad thing about this drop... names. Not as in their names, but needing to name so many all at once. I'm not the best at names to begin with, and now I have hatchies all over the place. EEP!

[dancing_serpent]

I was catching between 01.00h - 03.00h cave time (meaning 07.00h - 09.00h my time zone) worked well for me. It's my usual time for being at work or up and awake on weekends.

*g* I have no problems with dragon names. a) I always start with DS, so even if the names are taken I've got a good chance - and b) mostly I name my dragons after places in Scotland. Lots and lots of choices there.

[jocosa]

That's a good way to do it. Hard to run out of ideas that way. :) I was using familes for a bit when I had a lot of one breed, so I had all the Munsters, and Adams family for example. All my Lurkers are named after Muppets. Nothing scarier then a Halloween beastie named Mr Poodle Pants. *grin*

[dancing_serpent]

*g* Love that idea, too! Some of my dragons are named after characters from my fandoms, even if they don't always fit. For example, all my Tangars are named after Star Trek characters, and my Greenwings after Sherlock Holmes.

[krait]

My day-6 dragons haven't grown up yet, so I can't rate them! I'm hoping they turn out awesome, because I do really like their hatchling sprite. :D

LOVE:
+bloodscale
+female hellhorse
+blue-green copper (female slightly more than male)

REALLY LIKE:
+serragamma
+male teimarr
+reddish copper
OKAY:
+female teimarr
+male hellhorse
+brownish copper

NOT SO MUCH:
+black tea

Overall, I enjoyed it, but I could wish for a little more colour variety - I felt like there was an overabundance of red/pink dragons, and those aren't colours I'm particularly drawn to.

I agree about the names, too; what is a "Teimarr" and when are we getting another one, since apparently it requires an epithet? (And - my inner grammarian demands to know - why "Black Capped" instead of "Black-capped"? They aren't black, just their caps are, so this seems like a dragon that skipped the proofreading stages.) Why "black tea" dragons instead of "tea" dragons, especially since, while tea smells nice to me and I certainly drink a lot of it, it's not something I really associate with butterflies? When I think of butterfly lures, I think of floral or fruity scents, so why the oddly specific yet vague name? (Also, which I haven't seen anyone else mention yet: why "Copper Dragons" when they're wyverns?!)

Possible breeding... Well, despite my minimal interest, I do think a Rosebud/Black Tea and Heartseeker/Black Tea lineage would be neat! And I think some of the Coppers would look really good paired with Spitfires. I kind of want to like the Bloodscales less than I do, because of the limited breeding opportunities; maybe I'll construct a naming pattern to make breeding worthwhile?

I really need some more Coppers, too! I think I got the most of the boring-est ones. :D MOAR Green Coppers (haha, can we call them "Verdigris Dragons"?) shall become my rallying cry. Wouldn't mind a few more Teimarrs, either. And I need to breed Mum some female Hellhorses to go with her female Hellfires, since she doesn't have any Horsedragons to breed her own with.

[dancing_serpent]

*g* My own haven't grown up yet, too, but I kept stalking the threads on the forums because I was curious about the adult sprites and the names of the breeds.

Yeah, I rather like red - am not so fond of pink, though. I'm more the blues and greens type, both online and in analogue life. *g*

And nope, not associating tea with butterflies either. But then, I usually don't pay attention to the descriptions and breed information on the adults. Mostly I don't even read past the names.

Hee...yeah, a naming pattern for a purebred Bloodscale lineage could make things interesting. Because I love the Bloodscales a lot, and I really don't want to breed them with the Splits.

[silvrguillotine]

I adore the Black Tea hatchlings and male adult sprite, although I'm not fond of the female or the name, and I'm happy to finally have another two-headed breed. I like the colors on the Teimarrs the best, and I like the look of Seragammas in general. Black Tips are okay. I'm "eh" on Hellhorses, maybe because I dislike like their S1, even though I like both parent breeds. The Coppers... I love the colors on the green ones, but I really, really dislike both the S1 and adult female sprites.

I had some issues catching because of the new javascript requirement. Even when other parts of the site weren't lagging significantly for me, my loading times would get terrible with that on... I had some important things happening that required my being out all day (and through the night) too, sometimes, so I couldn't always get on when I liked, but I managed to trade for most of what I missed.

I still need the "orange"/"natural" Copper color, so I'm just trying to get a breeding pair of those... Once I get those, I probably won't collect any more CB Coppers for a good long while.

[dancing_serpent]

I've heard several people complaining about the javascript thing, yes. I really have no frame of reference, though, because I've always had it on. Never even occurred to me to disable it.

The S1 is something I don't really take all that seriously, but I agree on the Hellhorses and Coppers - weird/ugly S1 sprites. I'm still going to freeze one S1 hatchling each, for the sake of having a "complete" scroll. *g*

[silvrguillotine]

Ah, I started cutting down what I could when I had problems with an old router, and the difference between javascript on and javascript off even after changing routers stayed significant. I'd only ever turn it on if I wanted to sort, and then turn it off again as soon as it was done, because of the amount of time it took. It's good that you're not having problems with it, though!

Yeah, if something has to look weird or ugly, it might as well be the S1 -- and I also plan to do the same, getting them for completeness' sake... but I'll probably put it off for a good while! |D

[gommeke]

I still need to do a looooooot of collecting too, but I haven't even seen one of them since the end of the release in the cave. Maybe I'm on on the wrong hours, but that's the only time I have to watch the cave :( I guess I'll be trading shimmers for them :( (even though I could really use some more rares on my scroll too, and had hoped to get those with shimmers)

[dancing_serpent]

I had a bit more luck then - there are some I see quite often (and sometimes I even manage to catch them). Mostly the Black Caps, Black Tips and Black Teas. Huh, funny - all the "Blacks". *g*

Haven't seen Coppers or Bloodscales since then, and very few Seragamma. I'm mostly around for the full hour drops.

[gommeke]

I only get about two changes at the full hour, the one we just had, and the next one. The rest is filled with work and kids :-)

[alicit]

Let me know if you'd like me to try to catch anything (not metallics, though I can breed second gens).

[gommeke]

thanks! I could always use some help, mine time on the drops is so limited, it's hard to get anything. (and bred metals are always welcome too ;-) ).
Certainly eggs from the new release, but I also don't have much CB Daydreams, could use more CB pinks and reds. I'm trying to make an inventory from my scroll, but again, time to do this...

[alicit]

Do you have space for a couple of eggs? I have a CB Daydream just picked from the AP and also a Black Tea that I don't need. They are due to grow up in 16 hours, so if you don't have space now, we can wait till they hatch.

[gommeke]

thanks! :-)

[alicit]

The problem is, even offering Shimmers, some breeds seem impossible to find anymore. After the initial week, I haven't seen any Coppers at all in the biomes, and only 2nd gens are now available for trades. At the moment there are more CB metallics than CB Coppers up for trade at the Forums and at the dragonmarket. In the whole weekend I have seen (and caught) Black Capped, Black Tea, Blacktip and Seragammas, and I have seen (but didn't manage to catch) one Gold, one Silver and one Bloodscale, but I haven't seen a single Copper.