Talk:Enchanted Breeding Cave/@comment-184.70.130.182-20120604202414

To quote Jurrasic Park... "Clever girl."

I upgraded both of my breeding areas and would like to share an epiphany I had this morning.

On the face of it, upgrading the Breeding Cave and Breeding Island seems like a good thing. By reducing your breeding times by 20%, you should be able to breed more dragons in less time, allowing you to conserve gems when chasing after rare and limited time dragons.

Wrong. Mostly.

Yes, my breeding times are reduced by 20%, allowing me to spend 20% fewer gems if I wish to hurry a dragon out of the breeding area to make way for another try. So far, so good.

The hatching time remains the same, so I either wait the usual hatching time to clear the egg out of the nursery or I pay the usual amount of gems to hurry it out of there. This was clearly understood before I upgraded my breeding areas.

Now, here's where Backflip got real clever...

During normal breeding, I would patiently breed dragons, put the egg in the nursery and breed another pair or the same pair. By the time the second pair was done, usually the egg from the first pair was ready to hatch (as a large percentage of the breeding/hatching times are 8 hours). This allowed for a smooth rotation out of the nursery.

NOW, with breeding times reduced by 20%, I either have to wait for the nursery eggs to hatch before clearing out my breeding area (nullifying the 20% breeding reductiion) OR I have to hurry the egg out of the nursery for the 20% remaining time, causing me to SPEND MORE GEMS THAN I OTHERWISE WOULD HAVE. ON ALL MY BREEDINGS.

Well played, Backflip... well played.