Talk:Jade Dragon/@comment-70.58.10.225-20130519071130/@comment-89.67.128.50-20130519074223

It was great fun and exactly what makes Dragonvale awesome. I'm glad the combo wasn't handed down too quickly and I would have been happy for the community to have to search even longer till we got it.

I would say though that a lot of people were working (playing) pretty hard for the combo. We just need to play smarter. This means the leaders shouldn't be trying to do all the testing themselves. The leaders should be getting the whole community to do the testing. That's what leadership is about. These people should be directing the efforts of individuals in productive ways by suggesting what to test in what order.

Another important lesson to be drawn from this is being scientific. Scientists never claim to know anything for sure (i.e. a scientist would NEVER say "it doesn't have metal" or "there are no opposites, limiteds or epics".   A scientist might conclude that these things are unlikely, but that just means you push them lower down the testing order until you've checked the more likely options.  So lets be scientists and keep an open mind.

These two points should be valuable lessons for people outside of dragonvale and in your lives generally.