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Topic Started: Oct 4 2013, 08:32 PM (13,333 Views)
wapatango
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Anyone care to speculate on this new Facebook post? What do you think is coming? When do you think it will arrive? I know many people were disappointed when the new type of seasonal dragons were released. Do you think this will be another disappointment? Do you have any other thoughts about it?
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wapatango
Oct 11 2013, 02:35 PM
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Oct 11 2013, 02:30 PM
wapatango
Oct 11 2013, 08:38 AM
You should now have a light and dark habitat with an egg in each.
Wonderful, I don't. >.< And the payments are on my card statement, so it's not like the payments didn't go through. *sigh*
Sounds like you need to e-mail backflip.
How does one go about doing that? I've never had to before.
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email support@backflipstudios.com
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wapatango
Oct 11 2013, 02:45 PM
email support@backflipstudios.com
Thanks!
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I know I'm being incredibly dense but I have no idea how this new magic works, am i supposed to wait until I have 1500 magic before choosing light or dark? How do I get the eggs? Also, son and I both were on max 45 level. Did ungrade and he shot straight to level 50 where he remains. I'm crawling up 45 on way to 46 so i assume a glitch of some sort!! Please help!
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@Windborn, I got a reaction back from BackFlip:

The first mail I got was this:

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Neff (BACKFLIP STUDIOS)
Oct 11 11:10 (CDT)

Hello there,

Thank you for your email. We often get reports of slow connection time, crashes and difficult gameplay from older devices. They have much less RAM Memory than the newer devices so as we continue to expand DragonVale with awesome new Dragons, decorations and effects, more RAM Memory is used. We are constantly working toward optimizing our game for older devices but unfortunately this is not a guaranteed 'fix' or solution. Uninstalling other Apps can sometimes free up some active RAM Memory or doing a hard reboot of the device. Only try this if you are certain your park is associated to a username (Game Center). Here are instructions on how to Force Quit other applications to free up more space for DragonVale to run.

1. Press the home button
2. Press the home button twice (you'll see the tray at the bottom of the screen)
3. Tap and long hold an App until it starts shaking and a white minus sign in a red bubble will appear.
4. Tap the minus button on the App
5. Repeat steps 3 & 4 for as many Apps as necessary
6. Relaunch DragonVale


Best,
Craig


That didn't work so I mailed back and got this reply:

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Neff (BACKFLIP STUDIOS)
Oct 11 12:58 (CDT)

Hello,

As DragonVale the game grows in size along side your park growing in size the game becomes extremely difficult for your device to handle. Unfortunately, I believe your device has reached the point of being unable to support the performances needs required by DragonVale. I apologize for this news.

Best,
Craig


Guess I need to buy a new iPad... just before getting this reply I was already considering it... now I am more considering it.
Edited by essiw, Oct 11 2013, 03:48 PM.
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You can cast magic at any point. Many people wait until they get close to the limit so they can tell how much magic they've earned that day. We can only earn up to 3,000 per day, but generally you won't reach that unless you kill a lot of time planting shrubs, raising dragons to high levels, and clicking small plant habitats.

As for the leveling to 50, I have no idea why your son would instantly shoot up. That seems impossible, unless he had billions of food stashed that he used to raise lots of dragons to level 20 as soon as he updated, or else he used tons of gems to speed things along that gave him tons of xp. Was his leveling to 50 immediate, or did he do stuff first that helped him level quickly?
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Someone posted the link to this picture on the BFS website. I noticed that there is a dragon that I have never seen before. (I even double checked all the pictures against my excel spreadsheet to make sure.) I wonder what this little guy will become...

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wapatango
Oct 11 2013, 11:45 AM
You better believe I love this change. Cheaters never win. ;)

Seriously, though, I think that what makes this game fun is the challenge of it. So many people have started to get bored with the game because it became somewhat easy to avoid part of the challenge. I think even though people fume about the change, that in the long run they will enjoy the game more because they had to work and plan for all that they acheive. I really do believe this change is better for the game. I am sorry if it makes any of you unhappy, but I will be honest and say I like it.
Yes, but I don't consider breeding for cash to be a form of cheating, so in that respect this change is super sucky. Magpac is right now we have to go back to breeding Air dragons for extra cash. This was a method I employed in order to have money for growing food.

AND, the breeding rule change they announced was for EPIC dragons. The fact that it affects any dragon apparently is just I dunno a very bad word that I can't use.
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My park instantly went to level 50 without me doing anything. My son's is still at 45. I play on a kindle fire, my son on android phone. Kindle delays releasing updates and I actually went to level 50 before I could get the upgrade....weird but true.
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Oct 11 2013, 04:23 PM
Someone posted the link to this picture on the BFS website. I noticed that there is a dragon that I have never seen before. (I even double checked all the pictures against my excel spreadsheet to make sure.) I wonder what this little guy will become...

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Looks like a zombie.
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@essiw

Huh, that's unfortunate... I did get a couple responses - same guy, too, looks like - but he seemed very confused by my problem. I don't think it's a RAM issue, for me. Not that much stuff on this thing. My last email got no response yet, but I still have my fingers crossed.

Really sorry to hear they couldn't get yours going, though. That would be really obnoxious.
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RuffianRules
Oct 11 2013, 05:38 PM
wapatango
Oct 11 2013, 11:45 AM
You better believe I love this change. Cheaters never win. ;)

Seriously, though, I think that what makes this game fun is the challenge of it. So many people have started to get bored with the game because it became somewhat easy to avoid part of the challenge. I think even though people fume about the change, that in the long run they will enjoy the game more because they had to work and plan for all that they acheive. I really do believe this change is better for the game. I am sorry if it makes any of you unhappy, but I will be honest and say I like it.
Yes, but I don't consider breeding for cash to be a form of cheating, so in that respect this change is super sucky. Magpac is right now we have to go back to breeding Air dragons for extra cash. This was a method I employed in order to have money for growing food.

AND, the breeding rule change they announced was for EPIC dragons. The fact that it affects any dragon apparently is just I dunno a very bad word that I can't use.
Wait, so there is now no more point to having two of each dragon? I can stop trying to get pairs then?

I have to say I'm not pleased about the dragon earning rate changes btw, I have one and a half islands of Panlongs. Who's to say they won't do some weird rate changes in the future, I'm never restructuring my islands for cash rates again. Now there is no trust. Since they did it once, they may do it again. Who knows, maybe they'll change the habitat cap numbers too, which would be much more upsetting because I have to rearrange my islands for those. At least with dragons I can just swap them out and move on. Except I guess it's now hard to breed specific dragons now if same species + same species = different dragon!

All that time invested into breeding pairs of dragons when I could've turned the extra one into an egg is now gone, cause I assumed I could breed a pair for the egg eventually but that assumption is now false. There were so many dragons I needed, so I didn't get a lull in breeding for making extras to turn into eggs, but my false assumption that core game mechanics wouldn't be changed is now baseless.

...Yeah, not thrilled.
Edited by Sylvandyr, Oct 11 2013, 08:16 PM.
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magpac

There might be enough uproar to revert or modify the rule change, so I wouldn't give up just yet. It doesn't affect me immediately as I have 2 of everything except Amber.
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The fact that they did this at all is what bothers me. It means that my false sense of security trusting in core game mechanics was exactly that, false. So now I can't make any assumptions based on how I think the game works anymore. I can't believe in anything in the game. Even if they revert or modify it, I just can't trust what's currently true to be the truth rather than a capricious illusion.

...I may stop playing soon. It's too much stress to play a casual game that I can't trust. I fully expect balancing in competitive games like DotA, and I'm perfectly happy with that, but DragonVale is not the kind of game where I'd want to randomly guess whether a two-year-old core game mechanic that had a significant effect on the metagame is real or not.

I'm just glad I read this before I sold off some Panlongs or something.

I was feeling all happy about the update, thinking this magic stuff and the element of surprise for the kind of dragon we choose to summon is kinda cool, and I was considering giving another donation to Backflip (not cause I need gems, just to donate), but now I don't think I will. I'm really grateful that there are forums to be made aware of big rules changes because I didn't see this in the game or my update news.
Edited by Sylvandyr, Oct 11 2013, 08:28 PM.
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You can still breed two expired limited together and still get said expired limited as a result. It's just not 100% anymore and I have an inkling after running some tests that it's a low chance. But it's possible.

On a side note, you can get Apocalypse from breeding Ouroboros + Apocalypse now. Who knew?
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