Posted January 27, 2015 So, my suggestion is that specific times are added before CB eggs can be dropped in the cave. It makes no sense to see 2 eggs in the cave, one with the description of "This egg glitters oddly in the MOONLIGHT" and the other saying "This egg changes colors in the SUNLIGHT." It just makes members think "wat". Here is the actual suggestion. Eggs in witch the adult dragon is active mainly during the day should drop during the day, and eggs in the the adult is Nocturnal should drop its eggs in the night. This dosent apply to AP eggs though, so dont worry c: Thats all I have to say for now. More info may come soon, since im not to fond of the DC time yet. Thanks for reading and I hope you have a nice day Share this post Link to post
Posted January 27, 2015 I think the main problem with this is that not everyone is on DC time, and that some people only are online in a certain window of the game. So, it would be impossible to make everyone happy with it. Of course, some descriptions are a little illogical, but it's just a sacrifice we have to make, I guess. Share this post Link to post
Posted January 27, 2015 I really don't like this. I'm most active in the morning and do most of my hunting then. I would have a much harder time finding nocturnal breeds if this was implemented. Besides, it's the adults that are either diurnal or nocturnal, not the eggs. The dragons could have laid the eggs the night/day before and they just showed up at the other time. Share this post Link to post
Posted January 27, 2015 It could encourage some trading but it mostly seems like an inconvenience. It makes me think of pokemon and those pokemon that are game specific so like pokemonxy is only available in version 1 and pokemon yx is only available in version 2 and really that a pain in the neck. The idea has a good intention but not everyone on this site likes to trade and not everyone is active at every hour of the cave as such many users who have certain scroll goals or projects would be held back immensely trying to trade for the correct breed they need. Share this post Link to post
Posted January 27, 2015 I think Cheese pointed out the main issue with this suggestion. Not everyone is on DC time (the site owner isn't most of the time) and this can make it hard for people to hunt for certain eggs. People already have to adjust accordingly with sunrise/sunset dragons, glory drakes, and now solstices. I don't think we need anything else to be time-based until the DC clock appears. All hail the clock. Share this post Link to post
Posted January 28, 2015 It's an interesting suggestion, but people play this in different time zones around the world, and many have limited time, regardless of what shifts they may work, so would routinely miss out on many sprites. Also, this would increase the repetitive nature of sprite appearance in the biomes to whatever degree various sprites pertaining to different areas of DC's diurnal cycle were related to each habitat/biome, decreasing variety in egg rotation further - although some dragons (SunRise/SunSet) are also differentiated with this accordingly being dependent on DC time of (player-controllable) hatching, rather than time of catching or of simple mention on their breed descriptions... and in any event, the eggs would actually lie wherever left, regardless of whatever time their parents may have laid them. Share this post Link to post
Posted January 28, 2015 I must agree on the timezone issue and say no for that reason. We already have some time-based dragons. If people want more, they should suggest them in DR rather than changing what's already behaved a certain way in cave, IMHO. ^^ Share this post Link to post
Posted January 28, 2015 Hmmm... while I do like the idea of more day / night breeds, and don't think their inclusion would be that big a deal (since DC is divided into even 12 hour day / night cycles, chances are really good that people are going to be able to get on during their timezone at SOME point of their day), I'll also play devil's advocate that it's not entirely necessary. Just because an egg is described as "shining in the moonlight" doesn't mean it's currently in the moonlight, any more than telling a friend that "this sticker glows in the dark" means you're actually in the dark looking at it as it glows. It just means it behaves that way when conditions are right. I guess as mighty immortal dragon tamers we can recognize which eggs behave in certain ways off the bat based on descriptions we've read of them previously. Share this post Link to post
Posted January 28, 2015 (edited) I like this idea, maybe only for the fact that my timezone equals DC time and I have access to a computer the majority of the time. However, if this were to be implemented and the cave split up so eggs drop in the day, while others drop at night wouldn't this cause a major issue to how the cave plays in and of itself? Right now if someone doesn't take say a "nocturnal" egg it will just sit there until someone does thus be a cave blocker. Same could be said for a "diurnal" egg. Switching so that the cave has to shift every twelve hours would not only cause the timezone issues but any cave blockers would be removed as well no? I think and correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't this theoretically lead to the possibility of eggs dropping during this switch that are rarer, to take the place of the other one that has to go away? I don't know it's an interesting idea but the implementation seems a bit of a nightmare. (I won't even get into the rarity issue of flopping every 12 hours) Edited January 28, 2015 by mysterrie Share this post Link to post
Posted January 28, 2015 Not everyone plays on DC time (US Eastern), and not everyone has the whole day to devote on DC. I live in Asia, your night is my day and your day is my night. Glory drakes, Sunrise/Sunset and the recent addition of Solstice already give me headache, please do not add more or make this a regular thing. Share this post Link to post
Posted January 28, 2015 It COULD be implemented IF DC time was made independent of actual time zones. If, for example, a DC "day" lasted 4 hours then there would be 6 instances of daytime and 6 instances of nighttime in DC. Share this post Link to post
Posted January 28, 2015 I think the main problem with this is that not everyone is on DC time, and that some people only are online in a certain window of the game. So, it would be impossible to make everyone happy with it. Of course, some descriptions are a little illogical, but it's just a sacrifice we have to make, I guess. This. I live in Europe and I know Dc runs on a very different time, so I just go with it It is impossible to have a timeline completly in sync with real world time everywhere, honestly I don't see why the time should change at all It will always cause problems for some people and none for others. As for the drops in the cave, there is not really much we can do about that. They have to drop at some point Share this post Link to post
Posted January 28, 2015 It COULD be implemented IF DC time was made independent of actual time zones. If, for example, a DC "day" lasted 4 hours then there would be 6 instances of daytime and 6 instances of nighttime in DC. How on earth would that work with glories, suns and nocturnes ? It would be a nightmare trying to hatch suns and catch/breed theright glories. Share this post Link to post
Posted January 28, 2015 no, thank you. for some breeds, that's ok, but only IF the conceptor wanted a dragon like that. no retroactive things, please. Share this post Link to post
Posted January 28, 2015 I must agree on the timezone issue and say no for that reason. We already have some time-based dragons. If people want more, they should suggest them in DR rather than changing what's already behaved a certain way in cave, IMHO. ^^ This is pretty much my thought. I don't like the idea of changing how ALL the dragons drop just because a *few* have day/night preferences on their adults. I wouldn't mind seeing some more day/night dragons in Dragon Requests, but let's not change something this huge. Share this post Link to post
Posted January 28, 2015 This is pretty much my thought. I don't like the idea of changing how ALL the dragons drop just because a *few* have day/night preferences on their adults. I wouldn't mind seeing some more day/night dragons in Dragon Requests, but let's not change something this huge. Or of altering descriptions without regard to what the conceptor/spriter intended... In order to alter something basic in the game, I do feel that there needs to be a very good reason indeed, with a major improvement involved for players on the whole. Share this post Link to post
Posted January 30, 2015 It makes no sense to see 2 eggs in the cave, one with the description of "This egg glitters oddly in the MOONLIGHT" and the other saying "This egg changes colors in the SUNLIGHT." Just here to say that it never specified that the cave was at night or during the day... For all we know, it could be that you have observed an egg doing something "different" when it is influenced by the sun or moon... If that makes sence Share this post Link to post
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