Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28129975-20160621181251/@comment-28129975-20160621181332

My playing style is to keep only one of each dragon (with the exception of diamond types) and I would like to evolve all of them to level 15. I’m trying to get the remaining diamond hybrids that elude me and if I complete that, then I’ll look for a new collection. Besides that, my favorite aspect of the game is the battle tournaments. I’ve been lucky enough to gather more than my fair share of DIPPS & Champions, which fortunately make the tournaments much easier to win on a regular basis – and this fact probably adds to my enjoyment.

I am finished with the Dragon Tales. I like the stories and the dragons that come from them… but I am fed up with TL using this game aspect solely to destroy our food stockpiles – and they force us to use those apples to raise dragons dictated by them, not the dragons we want to raise. I am done with the tales for good. I will just look at each event in the future and decide how far I would like to go – but that will no longer involve feeding dragons that I would not normally raise up.

The leaderboards is a little different to me. TL pitting player vs. player is ridiculous. I’ve had many thoughts on how to make this event fair… but honestly there is no way. No matter how they set up the boards, there will always be things that are vastly unequal. If the feeding continues to be a part of them, I feel like I’ve got a bit of an advantage, as I my food stockpile will probably better than average – based on not playing the DTales any longer. Given that, I will check them out each time and play along at my leisure, until I make a decision towards the end. I’ve already got a nice stockpile again, as well as a list of dragons that I will feed - during the next LB event. This way I am still playing the way I want to play, just doing it at their schedule, hopefully to my benefit.

World Events are not so nasty – at least as long as the goals are obtainable. For these, I will just play like normal… if I get there I get there… if I don’t, I don’t…

My Summary is to play this enjoyable game, in a way that I enjoy it again. I think TL is masters at the whole dragon thing & designing a game that I personally enjoy playing. It is just time to get back to the basics… Breeding frustration and elation… Collecting our favorite groups… Raising our favorite babies… Spending money when and if I choose to, not when they need a little extra payday… And for me tournaments – bring on the 48-round Mega Tournament!

IMO the most important resource in the game – other than gold – is Apples. I do believe that my gameplay is defined from here forward – at least until TL allows an avenue for high yield crops on a per hour basis… crops that we do not have to baby every 30 seconds or 10 minutes. C’est La Vie.