Dragonvale: Strategies/Tips (NOT an add me thread)

[TIMELESS]

Originally Posted by TexasTed

After a few comments concerning the # of gems on the spinner and personal experience of landing on very few gems, normally 1 or 2 spaces away, I tracked the results for 50 spins on the Gold Wheel. Out of the 50 spins below is the # of gems spots on the wheel and my results:
12 out of 50 had no gems, only coins and treats (I am level 35)
15 of 50 had 1 gem space
13 of 50 had 2 gem spaces
7 of 50 had 3 gem spaces
2 of 50 had 4 gem spaces
1 of 50 had 5 gem spaces

From the 38 spins that had 1 or more gems,
12 of 38 times I was two spaces away from a gem
12 of 38 times I was next to the gem space
1 of 38 times the wheel stopped on the gem spot

Anyone else have similar results? Landing on gem spaces cannot be random. With 12 spaces on the wheel, more gems should be landed on especially compared to the # of times that it stopped next to or two spaces away. If the wheel stopped 12 times next to the gem space, the probability of landing on the gem space should be half of this result or over all 8.3% of time when 1 gem space, 16% of time when 2 gem spaces, 25% of spins with 3 gem spaces, 33% of time when 4 gem spaces, etc. I know 50 spins is a small sample size but the %s seem the same as what I have been experiencing the past couple days. 200-500 spins would be a better sample size but too much other things to take care of. C'mon BFS, tweak the server %s or get this bug fixed so that the wheel results are more statistically random.

Good luck all chasing the Oly dragons and Peridot - boo for Crystal fails!!

I agree with you on the wheel. I buy enough gems form them and I am sure so do others.

[eugekava]

Originally Posted by TIMELESS

I agree with you on the wheel. I buy enough gems form them and I am sure so do others.

Agreed! They are taking the "greed is good" philosophy too far.
I stopped racing now. Most of the time I get 2750 food. It's not like I was winning a huge number of gems before, but it was fun. It's no longer fun.

[TIMELESS]

I just know that there dragons get more expensive and we never get one for coins . I save my gems in case i can not get some dragons. I think all the freeduim games are greedy. I do love dragonvale sometimes I would like to see the dragons a little less so all could buy if they could not breed it.Maybe we could send if we get one they can not get.We have all ask for that. Good luck on breeding everyone.

[SticksHimself]

Originally Posted by TIMELESS

I just know that there dragons get more expensive and we never get one for coins . I save my gems in case i can not get some dragons. I think all the freeduim games are greedy. I do love dragonvale sometimes I would like to see the dragons a little less so all could buy if they could not breed it.Maybe we could send if we get one they can not get.We have all ask for that. Good luck on breeding everyone.

Remember "Gotta catch 'em all!" and gifting other players? Mayme I should search for my old Game Boy and the version with Groudon. My best time ever was making it from the start to the Final Four in under four hours game time. I used only Groudon, with no power-ups, in all Final Four matches.

[Lel0501]

These dragons are driving me demented again!!! Still no Olympics at all managed 2 rubies but no gold yet. 1 malachite but no scoria and now more crystal fails aaaaargh! time for Devs to give us all a break I think! End of rant, toys well and truly out of the pram

[ButterflyFan]

Originally Posted by eugekava

Agreed! They are taking the "greed is good" philosophy too far.
I stopped racing now. Most of the time I get 2750 food. It's not like I was winning a huge number of gems before, but it was fun. It's no longer fun.

The funny thing is that I was just talking about how only got one gem from races, but a while ago, I just raced and got another gem! I wonder how they set up the award system.

[girlpower]

Originally Posted by Lel0501

These dragons are driving me demented again!!! Still no Olympics at all managed 2 rubies but no gold yet. 1 malachite but no scoria and now more crystal fails aaaaargh! time for Devs to give us all a break I think! End of rant, toys well and truly out of the pram

Starting to get to me a bit now too.....(auto pilot is not kicking in but frustration is) maybe Ive had too much on my plate lately
Not as bad as your situation but no Gold for me either, thankful to have two oly bronzes, but no silver or gold. don't know whether to keep trying solely for the oly dragons before Peridot cos I am a bit worried I will miss out, but then I dont know how long it will take to get this months gem dragon either....decisions, decisions....

Thank you so much for the giggle though, not at you but the way you wrote your post.....really hit my funny bone spot......
I have spat the dummy but still have a few toys left (at this stage, but subject to change) haha
Good luck Lel

[Foxtail2010]

Originally Posted by Jazbodooley

I got both my Olympics with air and quake. Now i don't know whether to stop trying for bronze and concentrate on peridot? I've got a week until I go away so going to be frantically trying for next few days! Have to go to work in this time as well unfortunately!

My iPad is def coming on holiday with me and then I'll be on the look out for wifi cafe/ bars! MUST GET 3 peridot's! . How sad am I?

Lol. Glad you're packin' it! IMHO go for the Peridot. I think since you have olysilver and gold it's possible to breed them later for a bronze, the more common of the three.

[Foxtail2010]

Oh .. I gave the Butterfly/Tree a try. Rainbow cooking. Sigh.

I hear ya, GP, it's a lot harder lately to shift into auto-pilot.

[eugekava]

Originally Posted by girlpower

Starting to get to me a bit now too.....(auto pilot is not kicking in but frustration is) maybe Ive had too much on my plate lately
Not as bad as your situation but no Gold for me either, thankful to have two oly bronzes, but no silver or gold. don't know whether to keep trying solely for the oly dragons before Peridot cos I am a bit worried I will miss out, but then I dont know how long it will take to get this months gem dragon either....decisions, decisions....

Thank you so much for the giggle though, not at you but the way you wrote your post.....really hit my funny bone spot......
I have spat the dummy but still have a few toys left (at this stage, but subject to change) haha
Good luck Lel

Yeah! Frustrating.

Bloody crystals. Feels like devs try to screw with us to get more gem purchases to make EOM reporting look better. I keep getting crystals. At least other fails are 30min - 12 hrs.

Dunno, the fact that they have reduced significantly the chance of getting gems on a spinning wheel really turned me off. When it was first introduced I actually felt good about BS for a little while.

oh well, back to the grind.