Bad Ideas Dragon Cave Edition

[Naraku]

On 1/12/2018 at 11:58 PM, Naraku said:

A page dedicated to trading only, similar to Dragonmarket (sp?). Players can choose whether to make their trade public or private. They also can write a short comment of what they expect in return. The page has a filter for breed. Clearly a bad idea, I suppose. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Wait... Did I really just predict the Trading Hub that accurately or TJ was inspired by that post?

 

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Introducing new Neglected dragon sprites: ND Prizes (shimmer and tinsel). They are still shiny after turning, reflective greenish gold, silver, or bronze. However, they are more likely to turn if multiple unique dragon breeds are in their lineage. Difficult to near impossible with only one unique dragon breed in lineage, not counting the Prize.

[osmarks]

A dragon which when bred with others makes them disappear, whilst also being rare (so they're desirable).

 

Dragons for all other metals, with their rarity proportional to real-life rarity! CB golds too easy? Try and catch a CB Enriched Uranium!

 

Make the entire AP visible at once!

 

Earthquake now affects every scroll in existence, but is given to an incredibly rare dragon, only available by creating a 10G even-gen PB prize lineage.

 

Some dragon or other gets a Poke BSA, which makes things hatch or grow slightly sooner.

 

The cave starts being driven by a full-featured ecological simulation. A few wild dragons of each breed are created, and they breed and eventually die - their eggs end up in the biomes. The only CBs will be wild ones which nobody owns, and not for very long. AP eggs can sometimes hatch and join the ranks of wild dragons. Players will inevitably hunt the ones which were rare before into extinction outside of scrolls and no players will ever again have CBs.

 

More biomes! Mesa, grasslands, savannah, small hill, river, space, caverns, sky, steppes, sea (deep/shallow), island, desert oasis... obviously, they would have unique dragons, so to get enough, all DR dragons would be added, sprites or no sprites.

 

[Ether-Equinox]

There is a 25% chance that 50% of all your dragons will die when a zombie dragon is created.

[osmarks]

A scroll sort which randomly shuffles your dragons every day - Chaos Sort.

[Naraku]

Introducing Prism Dragon. It has 16 unique colors, but like Snow Angels, you may only have one of the color.

[osmarks]

A dragon with a very rare alt only obtainable if it hatches while DR is not full.

[Naraku]

DC daily login system, which grants you a piece of shiny eggshell. Have a perfect attendance for 1000 days straight (about 2 1/2 years), then you'll be granted to pick anything that exists on DC, no exception. IHOP, <3, CB Hybrid, Thuwed certified dragon, extra GoN, whatever, anything.

Edited August 9, 2018 by Naraku
how 2 grammer

[DangerousCuddles]

If an egg is not hatched every day, then all your shards get taken away

[osmarks]

People are annoyed by the nebula "alt lottery", so why not procedurally generate their patterns?

[Naraku]

Lagmonster/Datamonster become a real threat to Valkemare. Despite that, they are common in all biomes. Owning a Lagmonster will slow down your entire DC experience; Datamonster will corrupt your dragons data, one at a time.

 

Players can drive them to extinction entirely if they work together by killing/neglecting/zombifying them. However we all know that's incredibly unrealistic, as some will endure the experience owning them anyway. They will massbreed Lagmonster/Datamonster and block the AP with them, slowly killing all the backlogs and populating Lagmonster/Datamonster in the cave.

[Vict]

Have a dragon that destroys it's mate, and the mate's mate's. (and so on)

You would not want to breed it to your balloon, that has bred to your prize, that has bred to a lot of dragons, because it would destroy a lot of dragons!

[Naraku]

Shard dragon (no, not that rng dragon) that consumes 10 shards daily just for existing on a scroll.

Edited August 16, 2018 by Naraku

[Naraku]

Metamorphosis dragon: its final form is determined by how many times it has been traded/transfered through Magi.

 

As an egg (upon hatching )

0 time: Pink lindwyrm

1 time: Red western

2 times: Orange wyrm

3 times: Yellow two headed

4 times: Green drake

5 times: Blue wyvern

6 times: Purple wingless

7 times: Gray eastern

7 times: Black pygmy

8 times: Vantablack amphiptere

9 times (odd second, like :01 :03 etc, upon accepting trade): Rainbow random breed type, or just straight up dies if it was accepted on even seconds :02, :04 etc.

10 times (on even second, dies otherwise): Animated rainbow of the previous form

11 times: Dies as a pure black eggshell which stays on your scroll permanently, taking away an egg slot forever

 

As a hatchling (real-time; doesn't keep/stack previous modification )

0 time: Retains the form as is

1 time: Darken shade

2 times: Lighten shade

3 times: Darken shade x2

4 times: Lighten shade x2

5 times: Flips the sprite upside down

6 times: Flips the sprite horizontally

7 times: Flips the sprite vertically and horizontally

8 times: Shrunk sprite (50%)

9 times: Enlarged sprite (150%)

10 times (even second, dies otherwise): Rotates sprite at random angle

11 times (odd second, dies otherwise ) Animated rotating sprite

12 times (even millisecond, dies otherwise): Adds rainbow color (yes, this is intensified if the previous form is rainbow)

13 times (even nanosecond, dies otherwise): Animated glitching sprite 

14 times: Dies as a pure black tombstone which stays on your scroll permanently, taking away your one hatchie/total slot forever, can't be revived

 

Want the egg to change color after every trade? Too bad, it doesn't. Want some kind of indication on how much times it has been traded, like on the view page? Too bad, it wouldn't be implemented. Want to trade for it safely? Too bad, no security, good luck not getting scammed, especially with the seconds part. Want to scam somebody else by accepting their offer on your metamorphosis dragon on the wrong time/trade amount? Certainly, go for it.

Edited August 24, 2018 by Naraku
ugh, new emoji

[osmarks]

One raffle per day! With no entry requirements. According to some guesstimation, 60 prizes/day would make them more common - as CBs - than rareishes like xenowyrms.

 

Alternatively, the raffle should also give out "platinum prizes", but gold/silver/bronze would be available in the market at 10 shards. Total fairness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!One!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!eleven!!!!!

[Naraku]

Don't want to wait a month to just try your luck on the raffle once? The wait is over!

 

Introducing weekly raffles! Including a brand new prize EXCLUSIVE to weekly raffles: Diamond Tinsel and Diamond Shimmerscale! 2 of each will be distributed every week! 

 

Costs just 100 Shards to enter!

 

But wait! There's more! Donate at least 5 dollars, get an EXTRA ENTRY! Get another by donating more!

 

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NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. TEXT "TJ" TO 13210 TO RECIEVE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT WEEKLY RAFFLES. LOREM IPSUM DOLOR SIT AMET, CONSECTETUR ADIPISCING ELIT. VIDEAMUS IGITUR SENTENTIAS EORUM, TUM AD VERBA REDEAMUS. SINT MODO PARTES VITAE BEATAE. NEQUE ENIM DISPUTARI SINE REPREHENSIONE NEC CUM IRACUNDIA AUT PERTINACIA RECTE DISPUTARI POTEST. POLEMONI ET IAM ANTE ARISTOTELI EA PRIMA VISA SUNT, QUAE PAULO ANTE DIXI. PUGNANT STOICI CUM PERIPATETICIS. EST AUTEM ETIAM ACTIO QUAEDAM CORPORIS, QUAE MOTUS ET STATUS NATURAE CONGRUENTIS TENET; SAPIENS AUTEM SEMPER BEATUS EST ET EST ALIQUANDO IN DOLORE.

[Lovecats]

On Halloween, dragons from the graveyard come alive and are able to kill any 5 random dragons on your scroll. RIP your lineages/CB rares/precious codes.

[Ether-Equinox]

Once you have 200 dragons, you are forced to trade in ALL OF YOUR DRAGONS for a stupid, useless Mint Dragon egg that cannot be traded, gifted, killed nor abandoned and it will never hatch.

[Pilauli]

Vampires become a lot more annoying:

    Each vampire has a chance to try to bite any new egg you get.  If you have lots of vampires, your eggs get bitten.

    Every week, all your vampires consider whether to leave your scroll: the more eggs it's bitten, the more likely it is to leave.  If it does leave, it takes all its adult "children" on your scroll with it.  If you only have one vampire and habitually gift its successes (or it sits on your scroll; it'll probably leave eventually), and then it leaves, you're vampireless.

    If you have no vampires, you have no vampires, of course.

[Naraku]

Dragon Cave now have an official mobile app. It's free to download, but like on the official site, pay to remove ads.

 

The difference of experience between site and mobile is vast. The game is entirely in 3D. Since the protagonist is (likely) nomadic, app encourages players to go out and explore the world. Biomes will match the real life's environment as closely as possible: forest in forests or woods, jungle in humid forests or jungles, desert in drought-ridden plains/others or deserts, volcano at mountain peaks or volcanoes, coast in large lakes or beaches, and alpine in foothills or mountains. But wait! There's more! There are three new biomes exclusive to app: Ocean, Moon, and Thermosphere. 10 new dragons, including 1 new special Trio, are in each of new biomes.

 

Abyss Leviathan dwells deep in the ocean. Ethereal Wyrm resides in crater of the moon. Transcendent Eastern soars between Earth and the outer space. Combine their power together to call forth the Omnipotent Mint with every features from all dragon breeds, including two headed, drake, and pygmy. Only one person in the world can have the Omnipotent Mint... guess who already have it.

[Naraku]

Feeling generous? You're in for a treat (...for others)!

 

Introducing Balloon's new BSA: Surprise! No cooldown. Just select any eggs/hatchlings (yes, up to 24) you want to send to somebody. Fill in their scroll, your password to confirm, then submit! Your Balloon will deliver your gift to that somebody instantly.

 

Are they locked? No problem! Your Balloon will send random stuffs on their scroll to AP to make room, then transfer your gift to their scroll. What a pleasant surprise!

[Feesh]

Entire AP visible, no times marked. Paginated. 😎

[Naraku]

Preset phrase blocks for our favorite Trading Hub wants box.

 

[Have:][2G][Guardian of Nature][from][Neglected][Want:][26G][Sinomorph][egg][from][M][Sinomorph][x][F][Winter Magi]

 

Amount of generation can be adjusted. CB is an option too. Messy too.

 

At least nobody will get banned anymore!... Actually.... Hmmm....

[osmarks]

128-character base2048 codes! What could possibly go wrong?

[Naraku]

Players get a point every time they defend a person in their post.

 

If they accumulate a total of 1709 points or more, they will become a half mod with a crown placed on their avatar. A special VIP biome will also become accessible to them, where they can find dozens of exclusive dragons. 

 

Most of the aforementioned features applies to the critics too, but in opposite. If they reach -9 points, they will lose access to biomes and AP until they start praising the person they criticized. They also gain the title "Devil's Advocate".

[osmarks]

The current system of being able to see egg descriptions is too overpowered. To remedy this, we must make the biomes contain infinite-scroll lists of egg descriptions at the smallest possible size at which it can still just be read - to prevent Ctrl-F, each description would be an image.