Coatls Tale

[chomiji]

So I was saving for Coatl scrolls. Holy crow, are those things expensive!

I had about 25% of the price of one scroll saved up. And I had more than 150 gems, mainly from familiars.

And I saw a perfect "Neon Wings" male Coatl baby in the AH for 100 gems.

So of course, I bought him.

Do you know, I can probably match him up with a mate AND expand my lair again for the treasure I've got saved plus my next several days' earnings?

The economy of this game makes no kind of sense ... .

Comments

[thistleingrey]

So far (granted, I'm not playing with nearly the intensity of others on this comm) I have bought only hatchlings, not scrolls. Works for me. :)

[chomiji]

I did end up buying scrolls to jazz up a number of my older dragons in the past few months, but mostly I've bought hatchlings. I get into trying to find beautiful little dragons at cheap prices!

But my lair was getting full again, so I thought I'd scroll up some of my existing dragons. But then ... .

[aris_tgd]

Nono, it's definitely true that scrolls cost waaaaay more than buying dragons with the genes/breeds you want. Like, no matter how much you're paying for a dragon, it costs 10x if you were to scroll it up yourself.

I pay for scrolls because I don't want to let go of the cheaper dragons I bought when I was starting out. They're precious to me. It's definitely not because it makes any kind of economic sense. ;)

[lea_hazel]

Absolutely, I'm the same. Not even just my progenitors, either. I exalted a lot of my first purchases, but there are too many dragons that I love too much and I want them gened to spec. It also makes it easier to get exactly the combination I want.

[chomiji]

I would have said I'm the same — I mostly gened up my older dragons so that they are all double-gened, for example. But I feel strange about the breed changes. I've only done that once. It's like they wouldn't still be the same dragons if I changed them that radically?

[chomiji]

To a large extent, I feel the same. But I also feel weird about changing breeds. I've only done that once (changed Khiananit from a Spiral to a Mirror when I decided I didn't really like Spirals after all).

Mostly my emotional picture of my dragons is really bound up with what shapes they are. Yarok should be imposing and a little ponderous, for example, and I really can't see her as a silly bubbly Coatl. Does that make any sense?

But I wanted to try having some Coatls. So ... .

I should probably just get rid of some of my newer dragons to which I don't have any firm attachment. But I bought most of them for various long-term breeding plans.

There sure are a lot of ways to play this game!

[telophase]

I've bought a few scrolls to change dragons I had and liked into something that was even prettier. I had a Wildclaw who was pretty, but as a Coatl, she's beautiful.

I tend to buy gems, but I do online surveys for small amounts of cash and have always followed the personal rule that I can blow survey income on online games if I want (or Amazon gift certificates, if I'm so inclined at payout time), so I don't feel guilty about it. :D