Some questions. Will anything special happen if all of a dragon's equipment are its dream ones? Hoard space is precious, and I want to know if its going to be worth to keep some 'dream' items even if they're just common ones. How many dragons are there? I also want if know if I wont get the same dragon twice? Egg prices are climbing steadily, so I'm keen to know if, with a reasonable amount of persistence, I can 'collect them all'. Lastly, I just want to thanks the devs for their hard work. Am enjoying the game so far.
I've only been playing for less than a week, but so far, IAP isn't a critical requirement to enjoy the game. And, as an added bonus, the game rewards you (via quests or the guild gifts) with the gems.
I've been playing a lot and so far I have 15 dragons. In total I was told there are 25 dragons to collect at the minute but they did mention working on more. IAP is not needed at all I never speed things up, upgraded my horde to full and my lift has 1 upgrade left to get. But I get enough gems for free from visitors and equipping dream items ect
Hey Shakey! Nothing special will happen if you have all dream items, except a much larger final potential in hearts since (I think) each item maxes out a lvl ten. Jim mentioned that they were working on implementing more functionality with dream items like a money multiplier. But as it stands, it'll take 512 lvl 1 items to get it to lvl ten. Very impractical! There's 25 dragons, including the 8-bit. And there's no chance of getting duplicates!
I hope you stick with it a little longer! We call our genre "Indie Freemium" and lump ourselves in with games like Tiny Tower, Happy Street, and Pixel People that are more generous with premium currency, don't have pay walls, and interact with the players. Also our appeal went through! So the next update will be live soon! The biggest change is that we added video ads as a way to get more premium currency for free and we fixed some tutorial bugs. Let us know how the ads are performing and especially the frequency (too many or too few). The ads show up when the merchant visits your roost as a special visitor. The guild flow bugs are fixed, but they will be in the next submission!
Nothing yet, but according to Flurry 7% of our sessions come from iPod touch 4, which is way bigger than we thought, so I'm fighting for some developer time to optimize!
Ad frequency is pretty good, though I haven't played too long. One thing that isn't clear is how to get more gems from it. When I try and exit it ask me if Im sure I dont want anymore gems. Im gueasing if I download the game then Ill get more, but that should be made clear! Edit - Upon playing more, it seems like the merchant comes once every three visitors? Which I think is a lot. Unless his frequency goes down after watching a few per day. I cant tell though because there's one video that won't load. Another thing is all the guilds got deleted? I wasnt in a guild, and I had to remake my user. And when I click on guilds it takes me straight to Facebook... So I remade TA Dragons for those who got kicked out.
The guild stuff is still wonky, but I think if you shut down the process and come back it should put you back in your guild. We're submitting a new build with the fix in tomorrow! Yeah, the ads are showing up too much... The assumption we had was that these ads would be branded (ie for Oreos or other products) and would have very limited stock and would give us a couple of cents per view. But it seems to be showing ads for other apps, which have a TON of stock and don't pay out nearly as well. So we're going to turn those down and make them feel more special when you get one.
Actually this looks like a new problem with the backend, but we should be able to resolve it without an update. Stay tuned!
Fixed! Just restart your process (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3593897?start=0&tstart=0) and it will restore your guild and username!
Whoa everything is back! But Im still unable to send gifts to about 5 people for some reason. And one of them still says that they have 0 dragons.
Good to hear they came back with no problems! The 0 dragons bug should be fixed when our next update goes live. Just digging into more Valhalla design as we implement, and I know you were cold on the idea of sending your treasures with your dragon, but we came with an idea where to send a dragon it must be level 10 and rather than 100 hearts, have 3 dream treasures. The dream treasures would go with the dragon to Valhalla, but would feed into a collection aspect where you can fill each dragon in valhalla with their dream treasures to make them produce more coins. You could also send treasures to valhalla after the fact for the dragons that have 4 dream treasures. What are your guys' thoughts on that?
Oh no, I was ok with the treasures going into Valhalla with them, I just didn't want them to be used as a sacrifice to go to Valhalla. I suggested that 100 hearts is required to send them, and a normal item would net 100 coins per heart per hour, while dream items will give a 1.3x boost. Having 3 dream items might be better because it'll be too easy to swap around and get dragons to 100 hearts - but at the same time, the grind to lvl 10 is really the hardest. One issue I do have with dream items being so prominent is the fusion system, which we already talked about it taking 512 lvl 1s to max it out. Since that was such a big grind I opted to only have one dream item on each dragon, except the pixel dragon because the pixel items were so cool. Another thing would be how do dragons get more dream items once in Valhalla? Do we just hope another dragon randomly pukes it out? But then what happens if we theoretically max out and have all dragons in Valhalla?
I noticed that sometimes when the wifi I'm connected to is too slow, the game does not start but crashes. This time I could disconnect and use 3G instead and the game run fine after it (same ok, when there's no connection at all). Maybe some other people's crashes are also related to this issue.
TA Dragons is full so I recreated TA1 DRAGONS someone mentioned above, join up if u can't get into the other!
