Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5946541-20130131033308

Why trading portal and spell shop are a newbs nightmare. I wish I could tell how long this game has been out so I would know who actually has a use for the spell shop and trading portal. That being said if your new to the game do not buy these buildings.

I'm reporting this here as it was buried on team lavas forum pages.

I stupidly bought the trading portal and spell shop because they where in the quest category, and I was dumb enough to believe that if your questing for the object, it must be good for you. Don't be dumb like me. There are 5 good reasons to put off this purchase.

1. Space, each of these buildings takes a 3x3 space fully taking up a space you could have a habitat. Yes I know the "big" habitats are 4x4 but its almost impossible to take advantage of a 1x1 space with anything other then decoration. In fact if you know a way please share

2. No return policy, actually I have some other issues on how a stray finger has cost me 10 dollars in gold and team lavas answer is tough luck. But the no return I'm talking about now is: you can't sell these buildings back, you can't give them back, you can't take a hammer to them. In sort, you just paid money to give up two habitat slots. And you can't use them because.

3. Only dragons at lvl 4 of two colors can be passed through the portal. That's three lvl s of feeding which isn't to bad but, it's 5 to 44 hours of evolving your dragon. In those early days there is no way you really want to give up that evolving time. I've been playing for about 1 month and have spent money to speed up my evolving times my back log waiting to be evolved is about 400 hours.

4. The rewards suck for a newb. A lvl 4 dragon passed through the portal will net you one ??? box. One ??? box will hold one small gem that's red blue yellow or green. It takes 10 small gems to get one large gem. It takes at least 2 big gems to to make a gem dragon. And then there's other ingredients that you can tack on to the two big gems. I got a bit sick looking at how hard it would be to actually use either of these buildings to fully read all of the ingredients

5. Mis-click. The spell shop lets you buy the ingredients with your( real money) gold. I accidentally grazed my hand over a ten real dollar large ruby, and bought it. After carefully explaining my situation in a nicely worded letter, I got back a nicely worded "tough patuties" form letter. After replying to that's letter I received the exact same letter over again. Eliminate the chance you'll be as clumsy as me by not buying the spell shop.

I have a birth condition that makes my hands shake, do you think team lava would give a care?

If your a newb and like the trading portal and spell shop please share your story.

-Jae 