User blog:TexasSweetie/Spring Cleaning on the Dragon Islands

Let me start with a few of my DS pet peeves. These are not complaints to TL/DS about the game (I have a few of those, but that is a different story). These are just things that drive me crazy during my everyday game play:

 ·         Scrolling through page after page, while looking for the correct dragons to breed or send into battle.

 ·         Never ending lines at the Evolution Que.

 ·         Flustered brain as to who I should be feeding and upgrading.

 ·         Feeding my hard worked for apples, only to realize that it is on a useless dragon (to me, imo) that I eventually just stick in the stable or a faraway island to forget.

 ·         <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">My inability to sort out in my head what dragons are out there that I still really want. (And once I figure it out, having to scroll through page after page again to find the correct breeding pair). I do realize that I already said this once, but it really is a beat down and a waste of time.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt;line-height:15.75pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, this has all lead me to a decision to clean things up a bit. I am starting a que at my trading portal that will not run dry for quite some time. I've decided to get rid of a ton of my babies. For some time now, I've been trying to decide my criteria for who is expendable. I began with a list of what I will definitely keep:

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:4.8pt0in6pt;line-height:15.75pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">So this left me with about 90 dragons that are just taking up space & eating my food - dragons that fit the following criteria:

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.25pt0in;line-height:15pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">First in line: Charm Dragon … I don’t know why, but I really dislike that ugly little guy & have since about day 4 or 5 of playing this game.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.25pt0in;line-height:15pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">My plan is also to sell straight from the nest any of these same dragons that I breed during this period of spring cleaning. If any duplicate super- or ultra- rare come along, I’ll feed them to level 4 and let them cut in line.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.25pt0in;line-height:15pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">I feel better already!

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.25pt0in;line-height:15pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now a couple of notes to DS:

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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:2.25pt0in2.25pt0.5in;text-indent:-0.25in;line-height:15pt;"> ·<span style="font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'TimesNewRoman';">         <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">I really do think it would be a great idea to find something to do with all these trading gems at some point in the future. I already have lots & will soon have tons!