Talk:Emerald Dragon/@comment-108.72.245.78-20120529011427

I finally just got the 31 hour breeding time after SO MANY failed attempts that I was about to say f' it and give up. I wonder if they pushed an update after realizing it was too hard and they were about to shoot themselves in the foot with all their dedicated players who were unable to get one despite constant attempts in two caves.

Here's the realization I had I was going to post, right before I decided to give it one more try and it worked; I guess it's still valid though hopefully they made it where it's easier for everyone who like me made a ton of attempts and were frustrated by not getting it:

I started playing this game in Dec, and after many many tries I hadn't gotten a rainbow dragon. But during my many attempts to get an Emerald, I actually got my first Rainbow (not that I'm complaining!) and a couple Suns when I only had 1 Sun before and a ton of Moons. So while it had seemed like the Emerald should be reasonably attainable with enough tries (not dozens), as hard as the Rainbow is to get, apparently they had made the Emerald even harder! Seemed a little misleading and unfair- you get this beautiful empty island taunting you, and you already know you can't breed them with each other and put them all over your islands- and in the grand scheme of things you get as many gems from one in a year, as you can from Collaseum in a 2 week span- there's no reason to expect this should be harder to get than a Rainbow. But so many people, like me, got a Rainbow while trying unsuccessfully for Emerald.

So that told me they made odds WAY too low, and I should give up on being frustrated at losing what seemed to be like a rigged carnival game where you keep spending gems (and for some people, real $) to win something where the odds are against you in a much bigger way than reason would dictate. And people will only fall for that so many times before they get turned off and quit.

That may be cynical that's what everything led me to believe. So either I got really lucky amd finally beat the odds, or maybe they changed them. Perhaps they get better closer to expiration date and based on number of failed tried- no way for those of us outside the company to know.