September Release

[dancing_serpent]

Last release before Halloween, according to TJ! Two different eggs, they are found in the Desert and the Coast biomes:

Desert: The air shimmers around this egg, as if from heat.

Coast: This egg is wet from the waves and has bright red stripes.

Comments

[ragdoll]

LOL Yep, forgot that. I do understand the frustration of people with slow connections, slow computers, etc. and it does suck that the initial releases last about 15 seconds max, and the lag is just insane -- I kept seeing white screens and the links jumping to the left side of the screen with no background with regularity. Even when I have luck catching eggs, I don't feel the need to brag *or* tell people to shut up if the haven't had as much luck.

But the limits? Sheesh. In the end, we all have some kind of limits, and once someone's egglocked, they can't get more for at least 5 hours. A lot of people do catch with the plan to share with friends, family or trade as necessary. Even at Halloween, when there's a free-for-all, we all get some. Well, other than the first two years where I never managed a CB vampire (my mom did, but you couldn't transfer them for some bizarre reason!) and the second year where I had to have someone catch them for me because the lag was so horrible.

[jocosa]

Yeah, that is always my way of thinking too. The people that are taking 6 or 7, most gift and even if not, they are now locked and out of the biomes. The quicker people fill up, the sooner they leave the cave. I see it as a good thing. I have a horrible connection. Like you, at times, all I get is a page of white or super slow refreshes. Plus I am normally a spazz clicker during drops. I'm all over the place, and most times I'm not even hitting the actual egg. :P Because of this I know to go in at around 2-4am cave time. It is the only chance I have at getting new eggs. Once commons mix in, it's over for me.

Wow, you've played longer then me I think. :) I'm pretty sure I started after Vamps were actually dropping in the biomes. Or else for some odd reason I chose not to get any. Which is possible, because for whatever reasoning my brain came up with I only got 2 ShadowWalkers at the original drop, instead of grabbing my egg limit. No clue why I did that. :P

[ragdoll]

I tend to gift 2Gs but once I get my initial eggs, if I can catch more, I always gift. A lot of people are happy with just one pair of whatever new eggs there are, and share the love, which is awesome. I have a fairly fast connection and fairly fast laptop, but I am kind of spazzy when it comes to clicking (terrible hand/eye coordination) so not as fast as others. I just learned a really good trick last night -- I don't use a mouse (since laptop mice are kind of crappy anyway), but a track pad. Instead of clicking on the track pad, I just line my cursor up where the link is, then control R or control F5 with one hand, and click like a madwoman on the left trackpad button. The cursor doesn't slide around that much, if at all, so it's easier to at least be on target. :)

I seem to always have issues with DC though -- like I said, white screens no matter which browser I use. I turned off JAVA and it was spazzing out more than when it was on, at least with Chrome. And if you turn off images in Chrome, there's no visible link which is bizarre. It didn't used to be that way. I also use FF sometimes, but it's slower than Chrome overall.

Once the commons start mixing in, I have next to no luck. I almost always mis-click. I will be celebrating my 5th anniversary as of October. The vamps were the first Halloween eggs to drop, and back then, the only way to transfer eggs was via a really complicated ritual of abandoning the egg, making sure the recipient had the link, and then clicking like mad and praying no one picked it up in the AP before anyone else did. For some really crazy reason, the vamp eggs couldn't be abandoned. I have no luck catching anything, but my mom got 3, and was going to give me one. I've got plenty now thanks to the biting BSA, but it was really frustrating at the time.

I remember when the Pumpkins dropped, the lag was a nightmare, and I couldn't catch a bloody thing. Ditto the first Valentine eggs, which is why I have no CBs of those. I was away that weekend, and the hotel internet I had was just horrible, and there was no way to catch anything. I was shocked I was able to catch this past year's at the same hotel with my slow netbook!

My mom never got the cave dwellers last year because we were out of power for 2 weeks due to Hurricane/Superstorm Sandy. A friend took the chance for me and used my scroll to catch mine, so this year, I'll breed my mom some, and hopefully she'll be able to catch a few in the AP.

[jocosa]

Huh, my oldest dragon is a Vine from May 2008 so for whatever reason I just didn't snag any from the cave. Maybe I didn't like them back then. I do now though and have a handful. I wish I had grabbed up more old Pinks and Frills back then too. I didn't like the old pinks then, but for some reason I do now. And I only grabbed a pair of Frills because I wasn't really using the forums back then and had no idea the spriter was going to pull them from the site. :(

If you or your mom want 2G Pumpkins or Lurkers, I have a 3CB Pumpkins and a ton of Lurkers. I can breed to whatever you'd like or make them PB.
My scroll is here if there are other 2G Holidays you want:
http://dragcave.net/user/Jocosa They start on page 2 of my scroll. CBs are labeled.

Ugh, I recall the old days of pasting the link in the url and F5ing like a fiend to get that egg transferred. Scary days!! :P

[ragdoll]

My oldest dragons are a cb white, and messy skywing, black and vines which I got in the AP. I had very little luck in the main cave in those days. I only have 3 of the old pinks, and only 1 cb, I think (the other two were her daughters). And a few frills. I thought the Frills were ugly (still do) so wasn't too keen on them. I liked the pinks, so I don't know why I didn't get more. Esp when they were really easy to get.

I've got 2 CB pumpkins myself, as well as some 2Gs, but maybe some new blood would be good. My mom would love the 2G cave lurkers so they're not all related to mine. Plus I like to just breed my holidays like a mad woman and let them all go free, unless someone I know really wants one. I sometimes keep one or two 2Gs just for myself with the Halloweens (obviously can't with the Xmas or Valentines), so additional cave lurkers for her would be fantastic.

Thank you so much!

I remember practically having heart attacks when it came to transferring. I know I lost at least one gold baby because my friend had a slow connection, and she missed it. The teleport is so much better.