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Garnet (Smoke + Obsidian); January Gemstone dragon
Topic Started: Dec 19 2012, 09:49 PM (16,402 Views)
ForgeIsTheKing
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I am taking my kids on vacation until New Year and most likely a lot of you won't be online as much for next week and a half, so why don't we start speculating.

1. I do hope that BFS developers are on vacation too, so I am guessing we wouldn't see garnet until January 2nd
2. Reading wikipedia - this is a tough one to guess! Nothing obvious from chemical composition (and BFS doesn't seem to pay much attention to chemistry anyway). This gemstone comes in many colors, even worse - it changes color depending on the light! A chameleon dragon, anyone?

Without sneak preview and the description - I am not sure what to suggest.

"The gemstone varieties occur in shades of green, red, yellow, and orange."
Plant, fire, lightning and - flower?[R4E]title update[/R4E]
Edited by Sylvandyr, Jan 2 2013, 12:58 PM.
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wapatango
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@ Fletch My original guess for amethyst was iron & crystal. I am not sorry that my combo now seems highly unlikely. :)
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LiberKhaos
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Before everything, there was nothing. And no one complained about it.
@Fletch: I'm not sure if looking for color hints will help much... This could be very misleading like every other clue we take. You could use this as your personal criteria to try for a combo, but taking the entire testing group in that direction could end up with all of us looking at the wrong place. I think diversity could be our strength. With some looking at the color, others at the description and yet others looking chemical element. With Backflip changing the "rules" so often it seems better to me not to put all our eggs in the same basket.

I just realized that the first next month I'm gonna have a 1 or 2 weeks old baby around here(in addition to the other 2 years old) so I might be a bit on and off but I'll do my best to help around.
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LiberKhaos
Jan 5 2013, 08:37 AM
@Fletch: I'm not sure if looking for color hints will help much... This could be very misleading like every other clue we take. You could use this as your personal criteria to try for a combo, but taking the entire testing group in that direction could end up with all of us looking at the wrong place. I think diversity could be our strength. With some looking at the color, others at the description and yet others looking chemical element. With Backflip changing the "rules" so often it seems better to me not to put all our eggs in the same basket.

I just realized that the first next month I'm gonna have a 1 or 2 weeks old baby around here(in addition to the other 2 years old) so I might be a bit on and off but I'll do my best to help around.
haha thats where i'm at now. my son was born at the end of december, so my time on here is limited at the moment.
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LiberKhaos
Jan 5 2013, 08:37 AM
@Fletch: I'm not sure if looking for color hints will help much... This could be very misleading like every other clue we take. You could use this as your personal criteria to try for a combo, but taking the entire testing group in that direction could end up with all of us looking at the wrong place. I think diversity could be our strength. With some looking at the color, others at the description and yet others looking chemical element. With Backflip changing the "rules" so often it seems better to me not to put all our eggs in the same basket.

I just realized that the first next month I'm gonna have a 1 or 2 weeks old baby around here(in addition to the other 2 years old) so I might be a bit on and off but I'll do my best to help around.
^ I agree, we need diversity.

For past two gemstones I tried to look for patterns in prior pairs, read descriptions, unfortunately way too many pairs to consider. This month I personally liked obsidian but got distracted by panlong-in-upgraded-cave confusion, water bubbles during racing, tree-like looking tail... And in no way I personally imagined smoke - unless you can read "these dragons are a blast" as a hint to smoke...

Coming Feb dragon, I think it would be helpful imho if people who are not testing would search wikipedia, read descriptions and just keep throwing any and all wild ideas. After several 40+ tries tests I'm becoming a machine - no brain, just get tapping to a science, left hand, right hand, repeat 100000 times, no scrolling :)
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CryHavoc91
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ForgeIsTheKing
Jan 5 2013, 07:06 PM
LiberKhaos
Jan 5 2013, 08:37 AM
@Fletch: I'm not sure if looking for color hints will help much... This could be very misleading like every other clue we take. You could use this as your personal criteria to try for a combo, but taking the entire testing group in that direction could end up with all of us looking at the wrong place. I think diversity could be our strength. With some looking at the color, others at the description and yet others looking chemical element. With Backflip changing the "rules" so often it seems better to me not to put all our eggs in the same basket.

I just realized that the first next month I'm gonna have a 1 or 2 weeks old baby around here(in addition to the other 2 years old) so I might be a bit on and off but I'll do my best to help around.
^ I agree, we need diversity.

For past two gemstones I tried to look for patterns in prior pairs, read descriptions, unfortunately way too many pairs to consider. This month I personally liked obsidian but got distracted by panlong-in-upgraded-cave confusion, water bubbles during racing, tree-like looking tail... And in no way I personally imagined smoke - unless you can read "these dragons are a blast" as a hint to smoke...

Coming Feb dragon, I think it would be helpful imho if people who are not testing would search wikipedia, read descriptions and just keep throwing any and all wild ideas. After several 40+ tries tests I'm becoming a machine - no brain, just get tapping to a science, left hand, right hand, repeat 100000 times, no scrolling :)
i agree. diversity is key. testers, researchers, data loggers, and random guessers. these could all drastically reduce our search times.
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CryHavoc91
Jan 5 2013, 06:17 PM
LiberKhaos
Jan 5 2013, 08:37 AM
@Fletch: I'm not sure if looking for color hints will help much... This could be very misleading like every other clue we take. You could use this as your personal criteria to try for a combo, but taking the entire testing group in that direction could end up with all of us looking at the wrong place. I think diversity could be our strength. With some looking at the color, others at the description and yet others looking chemical element. With Backflip changing the "rules" so often it seems better to me not to put all our eggs in the same basket.

I just realized that the first next month I'm gonna have a 1 or 2 weeks old baby around here(in addition to the other 2 years old) so I might be a bit on and off but I'll do my best to help around.
haha thats where i'm at now. my son was born at the end of december, so my time on here is limited at the moment.
Nice! Congrats on the little one ;)
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LiberKhaos
Jan 6 2013, 06:40 PM
CryHavoc91
Jan 5 2013, 06:17 PM
LiberKhaos
Jan 5 2013, 08:37 AM
@Fletch: I'm not sure if looking for color hints will help much... This could be very misleading like every other clue we take. You could use this as your personal criteria to try for a combo, but taking the entire testing group in that direction could end up with all of us looking at the wrong place. I think diversity could be our strength. With some looking at the color, others at the description and yet others looking chemical element. With Backflip changing the "rules" so often it seems better to me not to put all our eggs in the same basket.

I just realized that the first next month I'm gonna have a 1 or 2 weeks old baby around here(in addition to the other 2 years old) so I might be a bit on and off but I'll do my best to help around.
haha thats where i'm at now. my son was born at the end of december, so my time on here is limited at the moment.
Nice! Congrats on the little one ;)
Thanks, I appreciate it!

So, as far as Garnet goes, this I'd being a dang thorn in my side! Haha

I ain't got one yet. This is the longest it's taken me to get one of the gemstone dragons. Normally my problem is getting my egg.
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I'm on my second garnet already, pretty easy for me compared to some of the others *cough*peridot*cough*. Just need one more for the egg, then I'm ready for whatever BFS throws at us next!
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LiberKhaos
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Before everything, there was nothing. And no one complained about it.
Yeah Garnet hasn't shown up yet for me either. I hope the Bring em back event will end and we'll have a break before the new dragon. SED is a terrible fail.
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Don't I know it. Just got another SED on the island. Looks like that'll be out of commission for a while...
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^^ You'll all be happy to have these stored away in the HC when they release the Sun and Moon shrines, imo.
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Fletch_smf
Jan 7 2013, 12:07 AM
^^ You'll all be happy to have these stored away in the HC when they release the Sun and Moon shrines, imo.
Ain't that the truth. I'm holding on to all the epic fails I've been getting.

Plus with all the new larger habitats I can keep them in the park making money without losing a bunch of habitats.
Edited by thenameisluigi, Jan 7 2013, 12:10 AM.
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Jan 7 2013, 12:09 AM
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^^ You'll all be happy to have these stored away in the HC when they release the Sun and Moon shrines, imo.
Ain't that the truth. I'm holding on to all the epic fails I've been getting.

Plus with all the new larger habitats I can keep them in the park making money without losing a bunch of habitats.
Yeah, the new habitats are pretty rocking. I haven't had room to upgrade them all, but I do enjoy having a family of Blue Moons, Solstice and Solar Eclipse Dragons all frolicking about.
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Fletch_smf
Jan 7 2013, 12:13 AM
thenameisluigi
Jan 7 2013, 12:09 AM
Fletch_smf
Jan 7 2013, 12:07 AM
^^ You'll all be happy to have these stored away in the HC when they release the Sun and Moon shrines, imo.
Ain't that the truth. I'm holding on to all the epic fails I've been getting.

Plus with all the new larger habitats I can keep them in the park making money without losing a bunch of habitats.
Yeah, the new habitats are pretty rocking. I haven't had room to upgrade them all, but I do enjoy having a family of Blue Moons, Solstice and Solar Eclipse Dragons all frolicking about.
Same here. Since the new upgrades, I am actually now under capacity as far as total habitats. Looking forward to a new island so I can split my Epic habitats between two islands. I figure I will probably do sun/moon islands and split the other epics between the two.

Hopefully you're right and after the 9th I don't have to worry about any more of the limiteds for now while trying to get the Garnet.
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Fletch_smf
Jan 7 2013, 12:07 AM
^^ You'll all be happy to have these stored away in the HC when they release the Sun and Moon shrines, imo.
Guess I should start storing my epic fails instead of turning them into pedestals :P

Actually, epic fails wouldn't be so bad for me right now. Still have plenty of habitat space thanks to those capacity upgrades.
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