Talk:Eggs/@comment-24.32.167.83-20120529155446/@comment-4756055-20120530010600

People...the time of day you breed a moon or sun does not matter. The belief that the time is important is just a superstition. Here's how it works: You breed at night and get a moon. You breed during the day and get a sun. Other attempts don't pan out. But rather than being a causal relationship, it's just a coincidence. Consider this: each time you breed a sun or moon you have a 50/50 chance that the time will match the dragon (day for sun and night for moon), and a 50/50 chance that it won't.

The only way to determine whether time determines the type of dragon is to breed many of them and to record when the breeding occurred. After you've bred 1000 or more of each, then you might be able to make a generalization from the data. But most of us have only bred a few, and that's nowhere near enough to draw any conclusions.

The old researcher's mantra: "correlation does not imply causation."