Talk:Breeding/@comment-4826230-20120208101550

So I'd been trying to breed a rainbow (and any other rare dragon for that matter) for about a month without any luck, trying the different combinations people have posted on here, and two nights ago I think I may have stumbled upon something. I upped my number of visitors, bought certain decorations, and tried the same combinations but with different dragons. It resulted in three consecutive rare dragons (if 36 hour breeding time counts as rare). Now I have a Panlong egg incubating (Lv4 Fog x Lv4 Blazing) and two 48 hour breeding times going in my cave (Lv 4 Sonic x Lv4 Mud) and island (Lv4 Storm x Lv7? Fire). I don't know if I'm just stupendously lucky or what, but here are my guesses on breeding rare dragons (sorry if they've been posted somewhere else, I didn't see these anywhere):

1. The number of visitors in your park may increase your chances of breeding a rare dragon. There HAS to be another purpose to the visitors number other than indicating how much you spent on decorations and paths, right?? That was my thinking when I decided to buy one each of the decorations I could afford (everything except the stuff that cost more than 1,000,000) and fill up my park with paths, raising my number of visitors from low 30s to 110. To me, it doesn't make sense for the developers to have that number be such a prominent part of the interface but barely serve any purpose at all.

2. Breeding the newest generation dragons may increase your chances of getting a rare one. What I mean by this: suppose you breed a Seaweed and Firefly in an attempt to get a Rainbow, and suppose you fail and get another Firefly (we'll call this Gen 2 Firefly). I believe that using Gen 2 Firefly to breed a Rainbow will have a higher chance than using the original Firefly in the same combination, and my guess is that using a Gen 3 or Gen 4 dragon will increase your chances even further. In my case I had a crapload of "fail" dragons, so after I upped my visitors number I decided to breed a couple of them together. I had a Mud (Gen 3 fail from attempt at Panlong) and Sonic (I think Gen 2 fail from attempt at Sandstorm) lying around in hibernation so I upped them real quick to level 4 and bred them, thinking I'll get Sandstorm if I'm lucky or Quake/Crystal which I could use...and got 48 hours instead.

Hope this helps someone. Comments and criticism welcome as long as they're constructive.