Thread:Silverisimo/@comment-24250059-20131221224336/@comment-24250059-20140409031100

Hey! :) Hope you had a good Monday and your deadline was met OK.   With luck it’s the type you can put behind you as truly finished.   I was glad to get a lot of Spring chores done over the weekend. It’s interesting to me to learn how to do lots of different things so I don’t mind doing them if I have the time (as if, haha).   I read a story on the internet where someone found $80,000 in bonds in some old locked desk they bought second hand. Sadly, my locked drawer contained only dust :(

I’ve not had much breeding luck in a while except for Jester. I’ve even been spending gold to speed the breeding a bit, but am getting only Genies (if they were TV-sitcom attractive it could be OK, but frankly they don’t do a thing for me) and not even attractive ones. Ouch, sorry to hear of your titanic fail, they are very painful.

Update: To my total surprise I got Mischief on Potter late Monday night! Totally surprised me. I was trying for Mischief on Dragons today cause they said now *THROUGH*   Tuesday. But it’s still Tuesday and the dragon is expired? Not sure when it disappeared so maybe I was wasting my time today.

What do you think of the tourney dragon? It’s different, but kinduv gaudy and hard to see the details. At least it’s not another champion type. I finished Venetian masks on Potter and started crafting (why not do it BEFORE it expires this time, haha). One more to go on Dragons.

The game has been really frustrating and completely glitchy since the last update. It’s ungodly slow and *nothing* works right on Dragons. Mining crashes all the time on Dragons, I still have fewer than 80 Ambers cause of the crashes where it steals my bombs. I didn’t update Potter and it is fine, I’ve got 160+ there with about the same efforts. I’m worried about the tourney cause reconnect on Dragons crashes the program about 2 of 3 times. Tried deleting and reinstalling DS, rebooting before playing, closing other apps, etc., to no avail. The other thing that’s bugging me about mining is that I’ll get a “too far” response and later find the reward sitting right next to the “too far”mine hole. The first time I thought I imagined it, but I’ve seen it at least 10-20 times recently. TL once again decided to cheat and not play by their stated rules. I’ve decided I will not start any of their other games because of this BS. Sorry for the rant, haha, but I’m really starting to hate TL. Deep breath, “serenity now, serenity now” :)

Buying a diamond temple might be a good move. I was considering it also for Dragons before I got lucky. They claim it ups your chances by 6x. If you assume the chance of Diamond is normally between 1 and 2 percent you go to between 6% and 12% with the Temple. If you pick a combo with short fails you can do about 2 tries/day without gold to speed or 14 free in a week. Speed breeding will cost 24 gold to breed and incubate with 12 hour fails. I calculate you would have to spend the following amount of gold on breeding to have a 95% chance of getting a Diamond:   If normally 1% chance (6% with temple) you need 49 total tries (with the temple), and 14 of those are free. So you would need a maximum of 840 breeding gold plus 300 for the temple. At 1.2% its 40 tries or (624+300 gold); 1.4% = 34 tries max = (480+300 gold); 1.6% = 30 tries = (384+300 gold); 1.8% = 26 tries = (288+300); 2.0% = 24 tries = (228+300). I suspect the odds are normally around 1.5% which translates to about 725 gold to have a 95% chance. Just make sure you have enough gold to spend on the breeding if you decide to try it, otherwise it’s a waste.

Started breeding Mercury/Virtue on Potter, which looks interesting and gives Blue Moon and Cherry blossom, plus Bubble, Goodwitch, and Unicorn if I get really lucky. So far got only Love and Athletic, but I’ll stick with it a bit longer.

Ridiculously long post ... sorrry ...G’night and good luck! And thanks for the Mischief, :)     xoxoxo