One Day Mini-Events

[Moonlight_Eevee]

What do you mean? Don't we generally get a release most months? And you suggested an event to take place in February, when we have the Valentine's event and release... I'm a bit confused.

My suggested event won't take place exactly on Valentine's Day, probably towards the end of the month. If you take a look at the Fell dragons, they were released two days before Thanksgiving.

[11th]

@Raptor: The Black Friday type releases don't happen every year (see 2015, 2014, 2011...) sometimes leaving span between November 1st and December 18th open. That said, they do act as a bit of a Thanksgiving release due to being in the same week, and this past one (2016) explicitly mentioned it.

 

I do think that, if a common drop could be set up during that time, then it should be one or the other and not both. It's already very busy with people finishing Halloween trades, starting to collect mates for their new Halloweens, and trying to find last minute mates for their Holidays.

Edited April 4, 2017 by 11th

[Shokomon]

I'm not sure if this would work.  If it does happen, taking an egg should be entirely optional.  There were more than a few people posting in the SD thread for the April Fools event saying they were pissed at having a common egg that they can't abandon for 5 hours added to their scroll without their permission.  The only way to not get an egg from that event was to not try to hunt the cave or get lucky/unlucky enough to get eaten, and if they actually wanted to hunt the cave that day they kind of had to participate.

 

If these new events take the chance aspect out of it (since some people were unhappy about being eaten and losing out on an egg), there needs to be a way to know what is on the table before you take the egg and voluntarily opt out of the event.  So the person should know that if they do X they will have a flamingo egg with "cave" as where it was born, and without having to consult the forums.  That way the people who want a special flamingo can have it, and the people who don't don't have reason to complain.

So, Mini Events shouldn't block access to the cave or work with normal cave drops, so people who don't want to participate can still do other things?

- Like an announcement that let's you know that Nocturnes are the special dragons?

- Or a prompt that let's you opt out of the event?

 

Is that the only thing keeping this idea from working? Or do you see any other issues?

 

I like this idea, it would be a good way to get rid of cave blockers. I also have some suggestions:

 

1. maybe have inverted sprites (or with something extra,another color or the such, since we all know how the April's Fool's upside down sprites are very sought after...);

2. Beach day in which we collect Coastal Waverunners, Black Capped Teimars, blacktips or any combination of these or other common eggs from the coast

3. Earth day (?) In which we collect Green (Earth) dragons and/or other green or earth related eggs

That's what I thought of so far,  will keep an eye on this thread  !

Any modification to the sprites (including inversions and color changes) requires getting permission from the spriters to modify their sprites, and there are a lot of spriters... I'm hoping to avoid that by having the little badge on the view page.

 

I mean it's a valid idea, but I don't think it will be commonly done. Like Inverted joke sprites on April Fool's day made sense.

- It needs to have a proper context to do something like this, and have permission from the spriters to invert their sprites.

- I'll add the idea though to the top post.

 

What if the one day events acted like main holidays? You know how you have to click to enter the event, what if it was like that so people who don't want to an egg don't have to participate and the ones who do could simply just click on it.

Good idea, Raptor! *Adds to Front post*

 

Thaanksgiving with feathered dragons and some hidden chickens? 🐔

Maybe the feathered dragons if they happen to be common (like Antareans, but those are relatively new.)

 

But no chickens. Chickens are not common.

 

A Thanksgiving mini event might be okay as long as there is nothing happen around that time. So, if there is a release during the week Thanksgiving (before or after), then no mini event. However, if there is no release, then the Mini Event is a go!

 

The point of Mini Events is to encourage people to pick up common dragons. It's hard enough getting a chicken without an event that will drive the ratios down to produce less chickens.

[RainbowTheAlbinoServal]

Aye what about my suggestion

My suggestion is the pygmies would have a party celebrating Kid's day (which describe their size obviously)

So the event would be called Kid's day party and the dragons dropping would be... PYGMIES.

And mostly misfits and pygmy dragons dropping.

Edited April 4, 2017 by Rainbowlight

[Shokomon]

Aye what about my suggestion

My suggestion is the pygmies would have a party celebrating Kid's day (which describe their size obviously)

So the event would be called Kid's day party and the dragons dropping would be... PYGMIES.

And mostly misfits and pygmy dragons dropping.

I was updating the front post, while making my above post, and I added your idea to the front post! It's a good idea too, especially for common pygmies.

[RainbowTheAlbinoServal]

Now I have a suggestion on electrics too.

Electricity day, dragons dropping are any dragons that produces electricity (not thunders)

If there is only electrics and thunders then it would be electrics only

[deleted]

Some more ideas

 

Carnival mini-event (there is a Carnival happening in Rio every year) with colorful dragons - 🎠

An icon for the moon related dragons🌙

Earth Day event with dragons that have earth as their affinity🌳

Dragons that live only in water 🐙

Dragons with time as their affinity ⏳

 

[Jazeki]

Is age (like how long ago they were released) taken into account regarding how common they are? Or is this left up to TJ to decide?

[irrelevantindigo]

We could have a summer solstice event like "Campfire Stories" (or a better name/time) where the Hellfire Wyverns, Embers, Falconiforms are the egg of choice— I see those two in the cave and ap A LOT, especially Hellfires.

[Pokemonfan13]

So, Mini Events shouldn't block access to the cave or work with normal cave drops, so people who don't want to participate can still do other things?

- Like an announcement that let's you know that Nocturnes are the special dragons?

- Or a prompt that let's you opt out of the event?

 

Is that the only thing keeping this idea from working? Or do you see any other issues?

It definitely shouldn't involve the cave or the AP. Something more like the normal events, where there's a prompt at the top of pages that takes you to an event page. It should also not be mysterious like the April Fool's was, it should tell people what they're getting before they commit to the egg.

 

My main other issue is I'm really not sure how much people will want blocker level commons just because they're a little bit special. My instinct was to abandon my mint, and I only kept it because my friend wants me to have one CB mint so I can breed it with my sweetling.

[Shokomon]

Now I have a suggestion on electrics too.

Electricity day, dragons dropping are any dragons that produces electricity (not thunders)

If there is only electrics and thunders then it would be electrics only

Yup, no thunders should be involved, but Electricity Day is an idea!

 

Some more ideas

 

Carnival mini-event (there is a Carnival happening in Rio every year) with colorful dragons - 🎠

An icon for the moon related dragons🌙

Earth Day event with dragons that have earth as their affinity🌳

Dragons that live only in water 🐙

Dragons with time as their affinity ⏳

Can we even use those icons?

 

Are they free to use?

 

Is age (like how long ago they were released)  taken into account regarding how common they are? Or is this left up to TJ to decide?

Honestly, I've been thinking about it.

 

Initially, I wanted these to be ratio driven (and thus chosen by TJ who is the only person who knows the ratios) because different dragons are common at different times.

- Though that would mean these events would happen rather irregularly. Like you wouldn't be able to assign dates to them, because they would happen only when the common dragon was underpopulated.

 

If certain breeds had stable event days, it would be easier to manage, but it would ignore ratios, and potentially cause an uptick in picking up dragons that didn't need help and lead to a dragon "drought" afterwards.

 

So, I'm kinda siding with just letting TJ decide.

 

 

As for age, I remember reading somewhere that the ratios are decided on how many dragons were produced and raised in a year, so the age of the species wouldn't really matter.

 

We could have a summer solstice event like "Campfire Stories" (or a better name/time) where the Hellfire Wyverns, Embers, Falconiforms are the egg of choice— I see those two in the cave and ap A LOT, especially Hellfires.

*adds to first post* Though, there is already an idea for the summer solstice, so I'll add this as campfire stories.

 

It definitely shouldn't involve the cave or the AP.  Something more like the normal events, where there's a prompt at the top of pages that takes you to an event page.  It should also not be mysterious like the April Fool's was, it should tell people what they're getting before they commit to the egg.

 

My main other issue is I'm really not sure how much people will want blocker level commons just because they're a little bit special.  My instinct was to abandon my mint, and I only kept it because my friend wants me to have one CB mint so I can breed it with my sweetling.

Okay, so no affecting the AP or Cave and should tell you straight up about what's happening.

 

 

As for the second part, if the April Fool's Event showed anything, it's that people are willing to go after sprites even if they are just a little bit special.

- Upside Down Mints differ only from regular Mints in that they show up upside down on the view and BSA pages, and that they are from the Cave. That's it. Everywhere else, they are as normal as normal Mints

- Yet, there are people trading CB Golds for them.

 

Even if the 'specialness' of these kinds of events only spur a 1% increase in picking up the common dragons, that's still 1% more than before.

 

If there are better ideas out there than this, I will gladly have them, but right now, this is still an option.

[bluesonic1]

I'm not so sure about this idea, but I think my uncertainty stems from not entirely understanding the reasoning behind this. The finality of this idea as I understand it, is to cure the cave of having too many common dragons?

 

What would be the pros of not having as many common dragons- do people want the cave to be empty at times? Do you think having less commons in the biomes will make it easier to hunt rares? Do you think TJ has not purposefully laid out the site so the cave is always filled with common eggs so it's not empty and we're left with nothing, as opposed to there just being not enough people grabbing common eggs?

 

I hope I'm not offending anyone with the questions, I'm just genuinely confused for the motive of this suggestion, and what it would mean for the cave if it did indeed work and we had less commons as a result. (This is based off the first post that says "to encourage people to pick up really common eggs". If the suggestion is meant to be solely 'let's have more events on DC because fun' then I apologise and might suggest adding this note to the OP.)

[Shokomon]

I'm not so sure about this idea, but I think my uncertainty stems from not entirely understanding the reasoning behind this. The finality of this idea as I understand it, is to cure the cave of having too many common dragons?

 

What would be the pros of not having as many common dragons- do people want the cave to be empty at times? Do you think having less commons in the biomes will make it easier to hunt rares? Do you think TJ has not purposefully laid out the site so the cave is always filled with common eggs so it's not empty and we're left with nothing, as opposed to there just being not enough people grabbing common eggs?

 

I hope I'm not offending anyone with the questions, I'm just genuinely confused for the motive of this suggestion, and what it would mean for the cave if it did indeed work and we had less commons as a result. (This is based off the first post that says "to encourage people to pick up really common eggs". If the suggestion is meant to be solely 'let's have more events on DC because fun' then I apologise and might suggest adding this note to the OP.)

No, it's quite alright to ask questions! After all, you aren't psychic. How else are you going to find out what people are thinking? Especially on the net with no body language to help you out.

 

It's not really a cure to having too many commons in the cave, but more like a booster to encourage picking up eggs that would have normally sat in the cave until they were rotated away during the 5 min change, only to be replaced by more of the same.

 

I feel like I see complaints all the time that cave doesn't move, making it difficult to hunt for what people really want, all those shiny "rare" and rare dragons. But like the cave produces lots of certain breeds of dragon because no one is picking up or breeding them because they want shiny "rares" and rares. It's a bit of a Catch-22.

 

So, the mini-events are meant to give common dragons some sort of desirability. Like how so many people were going after Mints, which were normally considered really common and relatively undesirable compared to like a CB Gold, due to the April Fools Event.

- Thus, would encourage people to pick up dragons they normally wouldn't, the cave would move more often, and the cave's production of these dragons would come down.

 

I don't think it would ever empty out the cave though. I wanted these events targeted at whatever dragon is most common at the time, since what is and isn't common in the cave cycles. That would help keep the cave moving and not irrevocable damage the cave ratio, since it would just be promoting whatever dragon is already most available.

 

I have no idea if TJ designed the cave to be full of commons 24/7, but I do know that the most common dragon I see in the cave changes every once in awhile. I remember when I was hard pressed to find any black dragons in the cave. But, now I see them infrequently.

 

Of course, I also find mini-events to be fun idea, but why can't the idea both fun and helpful?

 

However, if you don't see the use of having mini-events to move the cave, and would rather leave the cave as is or find a better suggestion, feel free to disagree.

 

This is the suggestions sub-forum after all. A bunch of suggestions that TJ may or may not consider.

 

[Felinor]

Bump and also I have some other ideas:

 

- Black Tea dragons during a Tea appreciation day/event?

- Maaaybe an event in which we can get hybrids? Not sure if it would be possible since they are, well, hybrids and in the event they would be cave-born but it would be interesting if possible.

- during full moons or equinoxes or some moon related events, to have a day with moon dragons? Bleeding moons, Celestials, moonstone, possibly Lunar Heralds

 

That's all that I thought of for now, would really be nice to have these little events in which you can participate if you want, alongside our day to day hunting!

[Shokomon]

Bump and also I have some other ideas:

 

- Black Tea dragons during a Tea appreciation day/event?

- Maaaybe an event in which we can get hybrids? Not sure if it would be possible since they are, well, hybrids and in the event they would be cave-born but it would be interesting if possible.

- during full moons or equinoxes or some moon related events, to have a day with moon dragons? Bleeding moons,  Celestials, moonstone, possibly Lunar Heralds

 

That's all that I thought of for now, would really be nice to have these little events in which you can participate if you want, alongside our day to day hunting!

No event for hybrids as the idea behind these events is to help the Cave move and Hybrid aren't caveborn.

 

But, good ideas though!

 

I need to add them to the OP eventually...

[Shokomon]

Updated First Post.

 

Anyone have any comments? Complaints? Critiques? Additions? Suggestions? Disagreements?

[Moonlight_Eevee]

What if TJ used the Raffles for use to encourage us to collect commons? Like instead of just raising three adults, he requires us to collect and raise X Number of Common Dragons?

 

Example: Catch and Raise 10 Guardian dragons, etc.

[Shokomon]

What if TJ used the Raffles for use to encourage us to collect commons? Like instead of just raising three adults, he requires us to collect and raise X Number of Common Dragons?

 

Example: Catch and Raise 10 Guardian dragons, etc.

That's another way to encourage common collecting.

 

Though, that wouldn't really be a one-day event thing. That'd be more of a monthly thing...

 

May you could propose it as a separate thread?

 

Like a Raffle Requirements Suggestions thread?

 

Idk