Posts by MiaSkywalker

You're welcome. You must have it hidden, because I can't see the lineage anymore. I just wanted to compare it with yours to see how similar they were, but they do look like they would be good mates. Hopefully it will gender right for you!

Is anyone interested in a gold shimmer fail?

This is the lineage; I think it's pretty.

Well, eight eggs would indicate the dimorphism of both the parents and the hatchlings, right? Isn't that the way he usually does it? Well, that is, four eggs would be dimorphism of both; since we have alts AND dimorphism of the alts, that makes eight.

Or at least, I'm presuming that's what he's talking about. Breed-only wouldn't be too bad; at least we'd be guaranteed that we could get some!

I'm irritated with her because she INSISTED that everyone was wrong for claiming they were rares. I find that sort of insistence irritating and stupid. This is despite evidence that in fact the dragons don't appear in the biomes that they're supposed to appear in. She got hers from the start, so therefore she doesn't consider them rare.

Yeah, TJ making them rare (and not telling her) was irritating as well. TJ really doesn't care if people have trouble finding eggs that they want; he can get whatever he wants whenever he wants, so really has no clue how the people who actually play the game deal with things. I've never seen him actually try to figure out how the mechanics work for the player, or ask the public at large what they think. He seems to isolate himself and not care. He's made himself unavailable for PMs, and he doesn't let anyone see his scroll. I'm sure he's concerned about scroll bombing, but he already has it fixed that his eggs and hatchlings will never die, so I don't really see the big deal anyway. I don't personally care if I can see his scroll or not, I just find that sort of distancing disturbing.

It's like if I were writing a computer program, and I didn't care what the users were actually going to do with it. If I just wrote it and said, "It's what I wrote, deal with it," I wouldn't be a very good programmer. A programmer has to be very aware of his users; TJ doesn't even try to be, other than to his favored few.

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i think part of the reason why coppers are so inflated from their supposed rarity is that they were released in the middle of a week of releases. everyone was already locked by then, and the next releases after that made them difficult to find for those who preferred to avoid the release-day rush.

It's more than that. I see some of the more recent releases - even many from that week of releases - in the cave all the time. I have NEVER - and I mean NEVER - seen a copper in the cave. Not once. I have seen silvers and golds, but never once a copper, not even to not be able to catch it. I mean I've never even SEEN one. That's why I think they're rare. I would have seen one at least once, if it was merely uncommon. But not ONCE have I seen a copper. That means they're not artificially rare, but are truly rare, despite the stupid remark of the spriter. (And yes, I will use that harsh of a word, because I think she's a moron if she continues to insist that they are not rare.)

Ah, that could be! If that's so, that makes things a little easier. Everyone assumed the mountain type would be different from the forest ones, but that may not be so.

We'll see, eventually. And you're right, in a month or two the furor will die down and they'll be at least somewhat easier to find. (Unless they ARE rare, like the coppers, despite what their moronic spriter claims.)

They're mostly gone very fast (right now) because people are assuming there are numerous alts. (There probably are.) I have seen a couple in the mountains but none in the forest, although I'm presuming they're just taken very fast right now.

Hopefully with all these alts TJ didn't make the decision to make them uncommon or rare. That would suck mightily.

Ironic - I did more in the mountains, because when I was catching them, that's where there was the fewest people.

But hopefully they're commons, like the last several new types, so it won't be a problem getting the rest. I *constantly* see eggs from the last five or six releases, so I'm just hoping this release will be similar, since we have so many variants.

Yeah, but I figure the reason he has eight on his scroll is that four will be hatchlings and four will be adults, and it will be multimorphism like the nebulas. I have no intention of freezing any, so I gendered mine and I'm hoping.

Or, if the mountain ones are one alt form and the forest ones are a different form, I'm covered. Presuming my influencing is successful. (It isn't always.)

You're right that seven is a silly number for those who like pairs, and most of us OCD types do.

I didn't get online until now, and I haven't had trouble catching any. (Other than the fact that they disappear from the biome so fast.) Every one that I clicked on I caught, I mean. I just only could click on two or three before the eggs disappeared for that drop.

I wonder what the eight eggs in his signature means. Probably something like the Nebula dragons, but just in case the differences have to do with the different biomes, I caught some from each.

I ran Google Translator on what Nephele said, so I could understand it; although they're not the best, I think I understand the gist of it.

"(too warm for another language ... with whom it is cool enough for a translation -?)

On Wednesday I was here all day meetings for different orders (with a little luck is a part of it even paid, yeah) and so had a head full, but the hands free. So I started casually scribbling something and when evening came was the little Pixie finished. It was sort of a Überraschungspixie, hence no announcement - he stumbled almost into the next door."

I'm glad you had some time to kill - he's very cute!

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Is this a new plant? I never saw it before:

Cocktailtomate/Cocktailtomato (Lycopersicon esculentum)

Very happy to get more "kitchen garden" plants!

I can't wait to see if there's more than one variant of this! And to see the sprout - the one for the chili pepper was so cute, I can't wait to see what this one is like.

Probably has to do with the translation.

I hadn't seen dustpuppy's post about the new pixie when I made this thread. I hope I didn't step on her toes.

Yes, someone found it; it's a tomato plant (I think?).

idril: Yes, I think he's very cute too!

We have a new pixie!

"A hungry pixie invites you to follow him."

Yes, that IS new! Yay, a new plant!

I took it, thank you.

Since it was sitting so long in one person's garden, I took it again to help it along. Where will it go next?

Just curious, Shelybear - does your compendium show the seed and the seedling, or just the flowers? I've never had a plant before without also having raised one, so I'm curious how that works.

Well, many of them made some pretty drastic changes! Which means they thought she needed improvement, and that's what I disagree with. Idril's comment about the ear clipping, for instance; does a small flaw like that in a person make her un-beautiful? It's the flaws that make the person!

The ones who made minor changes, things that could be done with a little makeup instead, those are the ones I have no objection to. They were basically telling her that she was pretty as she was, and that she could do her own enhancements to herself.

Maybe it's the psychologist in me that makes me feel this way. I just think that the way society is today (particularly the U.S., but I think other places as well), we are telling girls that they are not good enough as they are, but that they need external changes to be beautiful. And that's just wrong.