Talk:Game Updates/@comment-210.187.180.91-20120724025653/@comment-5312616-20120724220323

To anon about education and fun...those thoughts did enter my mind as I wrote that sentence but remained unwritten. The kids and I have actually learned a lot looking up the composition of gemstones and trying to figure out which dragons BFS might use for each gem. Is a pearl a gemstone? How do you make steel? What dragons could you make with water and fire? Mostly our predictions get way too academic for the game but we have scored a few points. I grew up across the Ohio River from several Bessemer furnaces and frequently watched the "fireworks" when the furnaces were blowing and when slag was dumped onto the riverbank. Many parents worked in the mills, it was steel that fed, clothed, and sheltered us. We all knew how steel was made; so I was aghast at the combos for many of the metal dragons...they were just wrong....but we do have fun learning.