Talk:Emerald Dragon/@comment-4778395-20120531173948/@comment-60.240.68.239-20120531185533

How do we know the time frame for Emerald is unfair? Backflip probably thought of that, and they may have done something about it, too. There is one very obvious way they could have levelled the playing field...

Maybe Backflip intended to release the update at the beginning of May, but they had to delay it because of bugs or other problems. If so, they may have compensated for the shortage of time by doubling the chance of breeding an Emerald dragon. Half the time, twice the odds of success.

That possibility occurred to me as soon as I saw the stats. The chance of getting Emerald from Crystal+Lichen is about double the chance of getting a Rainbow from any four-element combo, and I can see Backflip Studios making the two dragons equally rare.

We won't know for sure until we find out what the odds of success are for the Pearl dragon. Don't count on it being easier to get than the Emerald dragon,