So yeah, you get a cash payout when you Exalt a dragon. It depends on how high level the dragon is. Here's a table showing the rough amounts, because there seems to be a bit of random slop as well. Sometimes you even get a couple of gems thrown in with the cash treasure. So having a combat team becomes really important, because you can put n00b dragons that you want to Exalt with them and go into high-level Coli venues and level the novices up pretty quickly, and then you can get more money on Exalt. I usually level mine to 7 nowadays before Exalt.
There are also daily Exalt bonuses for particular breeds, colors, genes, etc. Check the main page of the site. If you have space in your lair, you can hold onto a ready-to-Exalt dragon for a few days and get a bonus when one or more characteristics match the day's bonuses.
And yeah, each Exalt counts for your flight's Dominance for that week. So if your flight is having a Dominance Push (usually discussed beforehand in the flight's private Forum), where all members are encouraged to Exalt as many as possible, people will buy dragons at low prices and then level them up up recoup their expenses at Exalt. That's why you see cheap dragon prices referred to as "Exalt prices." And at such times, dragons of less than about 5000 T are really hard to find!
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So yeah, you get a cash payout when you Exalt a dragon. It depends on how high level the dragon is. Here's a table showing the rough amounts, because there seems to be a bit of random slop as well. Sometimes you even get a couple of gems thrown in with the cash treasure. So having a combat team becomes really important, because you can put n00b dragons that you want to Exalt with them and go into high-level Coli venues and level the novices up pretty quickly, and then you can get more money on Exalt. I usually level mine to 7 nowadays before Exalt.
There are also daily Exalt bonuses for particular breeds, colors, genes, etc. Check the main page of the site. If you have space in your lair, you can hold onto a ready-to-Exalt dragon for a few days and get a bonus when one or more characteristics match the day's bonuses.
And yeah, each Exalt counts for your flight's Dominance for that week. So if your flight is having a Dominance Push (usually discussed beforehand in the flight's private Forum), where all members are encouraged to Exalt as many as possible, people will buy dragons at low prices and then level them up up recoup their expenses at Exalt. That's why you see cheap dragon prices referred to as "Exalt prices." And at such times, dragons of less than about 5000 T are really hard to find!