In order to make sure SP sees and reads our feedback from this latest Rescue, because yeah I have a lot to say, I thought it wise to create a topic just for this only. Please keep in mind this topic is ONLY for the feedback based on the Rescue or Summer Party story, anything else will be removed. I would like this to stay clean and concise so we can point them to this thread so they can make changes and improvements for future rescues.

With that said....

So now that I have calmed down a little here are my thoughts on this latest Rescue as well as the entire event:

1. This started out bad from the very beginning and in retrospect that was my first warning sign I should have walked away from this. The Summer Party dragons should have all be obtainable for everyone, not just those who paid. If you make it impossible for the majority of the community to participate from the very beginning you are alienating the bulk of your revenue base, this does not entice people to pay it does the opposite.
2. The quests, freebies and orbs in the race were helpful but once again the marketing was falsely misleading because even if you got them all you wouldn't have been able to empower them more than a couple of levels.
3. Having quests that required the SP dragons made it impossible to actually empower them without additional gem costs.
4. And now the Rescue though I find it pointless to say this because I've said it before yet nothing has changed but...Once again we have quests to get required keys but they are given out like they are food stamps at the beginning of the month. Either the keys need to be removed or the cool downs need to be removed. It is counter productive to have them both. Then you add in the fact that the quests are spaced out so that you have to speed them up or you will not have enough time since there was a 16 hour cool down on the hard path. A cool down which was unavoidable since the required dragons were on more than one node. Once again something that should not have been. You all promote a feature to entice the community to aim for it but then you set up the event to ensure the majority of the community fails. This was a very nice feature, something that would help many players but you set it up so that the majority of the people who get it are hackers, cheaters and high spenders. I have always considered myself a spender, though not a high spender but after this debacle I am either going to quit playing after 7 years or will become a f2p player. This super expensive, one time use item has turned me away from a game which I have loved for quite some time. But this was a deal breaker for me.

Now if I was setting up this event it would go like this, after all there is no benefit or harm to complete its on the first or last day, es0ecially since you set up the artifact not to work until after the Rescue ends.....

There would be keys but no cool downs on any levels. Or there would be no keys but the cool downs would be no more than 6 hours. There would also be the possibility to pay gems to end cool downs as they are in the arenas. The preliminary events would have a 3 or 4 day gap between them to allow for summoning/recalling/empowering. There would also be a week after the last preliminary event ended and the climatic event started to allow for summoning/recalling/empowering. All quests and freebies requiring the required dragons would be OVER before the last event started. And, most importantly if you market the event with the possibility of having 4 star dragons by the end, then enough opportunities should be given to get the orbs to reach 4 stars before the Rescue or last event begins.

This is or was my last rescue, from now on I will control myself and save myself the aggravation and stress and just skip them and keep my gems and money to myself.

To be continued....when I've calmed down more.

Here are my thoughts:-

1. The part 1 aka summer party island was impossible unless you pay money. The island was supposed to be 10 days but later changed to 7 days at last. If it is 10 days, we could have got all the dragons.

2. The race was fine but we get less orbs of summer party ,which makes it even more difficult to summon dragons.

3. The quests for nyxmare are useless unless you have the dragons required for quest. Also the orbs could be divided for every battle in quests instead of giving large amount of orbs at the end.

4. The freebies is also giving less orbs. For events like these, we need more orbs.

5. The rescue could be much better if we had only 2 types of keys:- one type is for progressing in a path and other for unlocking other paths.

6. Those dragons which are necessary for rescue, should be rechargeable with gems. Also, If you don't have a specific dragon, we can replace it with another specific dragon. Eg:- If you don't have happiness dragon, you can use high positivity dragon instead.

7. Last thing:- The dragons could be collected through decorations like those artifacts in relic of life instead of their orbs giving more chances to people.

These things would make better. I hope the developers will consider these tips and use it for future events.

Multiple hiccups for such a huge event that actually could have created a positive buzz. They shortened the first event and made it pay to play immediately. They also forced the majority into paying 450 gems for each of the legendary pool party dragons because they weren’t offered together in the triple offer and they gave small orbs out in trickles without any clue as to wether or not they would give out anymore. They kicked off the Rescue by forcing players to purchase 5 golden keys to get a head start. If anyone was having fun after all of that, in the middle of the weekend they delayed everyone with a green key shortage. And if the 3 star heroic versus your lowly Pool party Dragons wasn’t enough to make you mad. They slap you in the face with Tharos and Sorath for the second Rescue in a row. At least they added a cool flag graphic at the completion of each rescue. And they encouraged us to use most of our food on some dragons We normally wouldn’t use as fighters. Just forcing us to use resources from every angle and giving us rewards we earned last time.

I agree with most of what Nynaeve says above. I knew when the first maze island only allowed ONE dragon for free, and I wouldn't get any of the other three, that this whole summer event was a no-go for me. I play for the enjoyment of collecting the dragons, and for the challenge involved in some of the events. I actually like the rescues for the challenge of matching up opponents for the battles, but the collecting of KEYS is tedious enough to sour the event for me.
I am mainly a ftp player, playing for over 2 years. This series of events was much too complicated for my liking. Even with all the available ways to get them these last weeks, I STILL don't have enough orbs to summon joy, happiness or pool party.
Lastly, I hope the devs do take our comments on board, because this is an important point: this is just a game! It should be an enjoyable way to spend our free time, a few minutes at lunch and a half hour before bedtime sort of pastime. But what they are doing lately with this event and the other stories, and with having a heroic race every five weeks, is turn the game into a grind, a CHORE devoid of enjoyment, and I suspect for some players it can be very stressful altogether. The fact that it took about 5 years to produce the first 650 dragons, but only about 2 years for the last 500 or so is a clear indicator that the pace of this game has revved up massively. Consider taking the pace back a notch or two. Please. It might please some hardcore big spenders to play this hard, but you risk losing many casual players with so many events geared against them.

@nynaevelan I agree with Nynaevelan completely. I spent quite a bit of money on summer island because it was impossible to get the dragons i needed for the artifact at the end. I struggled through a heroic race with the gems i didnt have time to regenerate, just to have a lockdown on green keys keep me from having enouh time to finish the dragon rescue because of some rediculous 16 hr cooldown. I spent quite a bit of money to be absolutely helpless right at the end. Couldnt we at least speed up the cooldown with gems or do away with the keys. I dont think ill be spending money on this game again, i feel like u have to be a hacker or be rich to get anything descent on it now. I have played this game for probably 6 years and hate that something ive enjoyed so much all this time is stressin me out like this.

This is it first big event I decided to play, I have only been playing the game for a couple of months.

At the begging I was really looking forward to the event. Once I realised the summer party dragons were more expensive than I realised I had to buy fog tokens twice - the orbs that were at the back were misleading - I read it as they would be able to empower the dragon - this wasn’t enough.

The hero race again was very expensive at this time I was committed as I had already spent a lot.

To get to the event I bought the keys and used gems to open the doors and didn’t know that you shouldn’t use the keys to complete the easy path so for three days I had to sit out. This is really unacceptable especially as I used gems to open all the keys and paid for the golden keys in the first 10 mins of the quest opening.

I bought the orbs of the dragons in the offer as well

I then at the last battle after reading everyone’s feed back I ended up spending a further £140 for food.

This is nearly £350 for the whole event in 1 month.

There is a Principle called buyers remorse and by putting people in a buying frenzy might have made you short term cash but you have now lost the goodwill of the majority of your player base that took part and risked their long term spending which would give you more in the long run.

I think as good customer service and a good will gesture the gift of a significant item would be appreciated and help reduce the frustration that so many of your loyal customers seem to have - such as a complimentary hero dragon to all those that got to the 18th step or - 1000 gems etc...

In business it is easy to make assumptions and mistakes - it’s how you handle them that allows you continue to grow. I really hope you listen to this feedback as you actually do have a great game.

I agree with everything that has been said on this thread. I am one of the few who only spent $10 on the yellow keys and managed to finish the rescue on hard just barely.

Over the past several months I have enjoyed playing this game. I still like getting new dragons and such. Recently though I have noticed a trend. No matter how hard I try to play and get the dragons during an event, I only get one or two out of four or five. With this event, I only got one for free. I spent gems to get the rest. SP has started to increase the difficulty on these events and it isn't helping casual players.

I would have this-
For the Rescue
1- Keys but shorter than 6 hour cooldowns Which you can spend gems to speed up.
2- No Requirements.
3- Have Key Quests for individual keys, not a combined quest.
4- Offer all keys randomly in the Dragon Cinema
For the Summer Party
1- Give out items like the LoD Orbs or the RoL Relics to get the Dragons. This could have been better.
2- Orbs would be given on quests that require the dragon, mainly to give a little challenge, which was that you needed the dragon to get the orbs to empower. Life is no fun without some challenge.
3- There would be card packs for each individual member of the SP Dragons, but they would be unlikely to get.

@nynaevelan said in Nyxonite Dragon Rescue/Story Feedback for the SP Developers:

make changes and improvements for future rescues.

Dear community,

Loving your initiative @Nynaevelan, thank you.

I'm reading all your comments, your feedback, constructive criticism and suggestions for future events. It is really important to me and I'll work on it so the DC team hear your voice, receives your feedback and takes it into account for the future.

So, please, keep sharing your experiences with the community and keep your feedback and suggestions coming!

As you all know, an almost month-long event has come to an end. 3 exciting but challenging phases that guided us through a new storytelling event in Dragon City.

We finally revealed the mysterious identity of "N" and, this time, Deus itself was in danger as Nyx and charmed Deus! At the end of the event, we were asked to face the ultimate challenge and defeat Nyx's minions to claim the Nyxonite Artifact.

Can you please give me some feedback or comments also about the story? How did you guys like this Story? Did you watch and enjoy the videos we made?

Once again, let me insist, keep your feedback and suggestions coming!

Thank you all in advance.

Have a great day and see you back on the island.

In summary, I would say the event is not even ok to make us happy, it is very difficult. I shared my opinion above

@pounawea said in Nyxonite Dragon Rescue/Story Feedback for the SP Developers:

@nynaevelan said in Nyxonite Dragon Rescue/Story Feedback for the SP Developers:

make changes and improvements for future rescues.

Dear community,

Loving your initiative @Nynaevelan, thank you.

I'm reading all your comments, your feedback, constructive criticism and suggestions for future events. It is really important to me and I'll work on it so the DC team hear your voice, receives your feedback and takes it into account for the future.

So, please, keep sharing your experiences with the community and keep your feedback and suggestions coming!

As you all know, an almost month-long event has come to an end. 3 exciting but challenging phases that guided us through a new storytelling event in Dragon City.

We finally revealed the mysterious identity of "N" and, this time, Deus itself was in danger as Nyx and charmed Deus! At the end of the event, we were asked to face the ultimate challenge and defeat Nyx's minions to claim the Nyxonite Artifact.

Can you please give me some feedback or comments also about the story? How did you guys like this Story? Did you watch and enjoy the videos we made?

Once again, let me insist, keep your feedback and suggestions coming!

Thank you all in advance.

Have a great day and see you back on the island.

Well if you ask about the story....its not bad. Imo connecting 2 or more events by a good plotted story is entertaining but it should be doable. Also if you mean to do more events like this you need to give a clear idea about each and every aspect of the events. For example we f2p did not know how many orbs were going to be on sale and how much they would cost until it came into sale and we didn't know if we buy some orbs now, whether more will be available in the future and it's details.if we knew the amount of orbs and it's cost before hand it would have helped us in calculating and thinking whether we need to buy it or is there a chance to get them. From the races we could get happiness orbs only at lap23+. If sp thought statistically they would know that very very few f2p only would get there. The frustrating thing mainly was that there were many ways for P2P to get those dragons while very few ways for f2p to get them. And those ways to get orbs were not even enough to summon them ️.

But the way sp has made this event miserable to each and every player is dissatisfactory and sad. Hopefully you come up with more ideas that are way wayy better than this.( By idea I mean the toughness to get those dragons without spending, giving out keys in quests at wrong times, and making it really hard to complete the rescue because of irrational cooldown times and a beast of a heroic boss to defeat)

I agree with everything everyone has been saying. Make the event possible for f2p players to complete if they do everything perfectly, and allow those who don't have the time or make some mistakes along the way to catch up by spending.

One thing I would like to add is that we still have no good way to level dragons up to A+ with the social features being disabled. This meant that even if I did empower and level up my summer party dragons to say 30, they were still basically useless in the rescue. I managed to get Happiness to A- by using him in all the quests, but he was still easily killed in one hit, and the other 3 were still C grade.

@notme said in Nyxonite Dragon Rescue/Story Feedback for the SP Developers:

I agree with everything everyone has been saying. Make the event possible for f2p players to complete if they do everything perfectly, and allow those who don't have the time or make some mistakes along the way to catch up by spending.

One thing I would like to add is that we still have no good way to level dragons up to A+ with the social features being disabled. This meant that even if I did empower and level up my summer party dragons to say 30, they were still basically useless in the rescue. I managed to get Happiness to A- by using him in all the quests, but he was still easily killed in one hit, and the other 3 were still C grade.

You do realize that friend challenges has been turned back on right?

@pounawea said in Nyxonite Dragon Rescue/Story Feedback for the SP Developers:

As you all know, an almost month-long event has come to an end. 3 exciting but challenging phases that guided us through a new storytelling event in Dragon City.

Well, to be honest, this story wasn't exciting nor challenging. Challenging is related to dedication and this event was a money catcher.
Starting with the story - very poor background, just 15 second teasers.
It doesn't seem like the conclusion of the previous ones. I was expecting something bigger, N was introduced 1 year ago and she's just a witch who charmed Deus... again, it just seems like an excuse to grab money.

The race related to the event was awfull too. Rewards reduced - once again - long waits between battles, low expectation of success. The heroic race has become a terrible duty. We have lives beyond DC, time we spend at these events is unbelievable and the return on rewards such as tokens, food and especially ORBS is far below expectations.

And now going to the Rescue Event... I think everyone has already pointed out the problems. Enemies very strong, rest times are very long. The keys are inaccessible without speeding up missions. I understand the hard path needs to be hard, but when you need to buy the keys to TRY to defeat the enemies in time, there is no challenge, just money again.

In short, the whole event was like a big slot machine. From the beginning, it was a gamble for me. At least all my investment in racing, quests and triple offers was worth something.

I really hope SP re-thinks about how heroic races, rescue missions and especially DC stories work, both in terms of time and value. As an example, tower events and puzzles were the events I least liked. After SP has changed them, they are my favorites. Not because they are easy, but because I know that with some dedication and small expenses I can reach my goals at the event. I believe it's better for the company to have many players constantly spending small amounts than a dozen who spend fortunes only once.

@pounawea The story worked well, however I still think Relic of Life had the best story. It was great seeing the identity of N and now N is defeated, the next story will have a new villain, or, Will N come back? We don’t know!

I was not impressed or affected at all by the story. TBH I am not a fan of these tiny few seconds of teasers in videos so I do not bother watching them.

@nynaevelan said in Nyxonite Dragon Rescue/Story Feedback for the SP Developers:

I was not impressed or affected at all by the story. TBH I am not a fan of these tiny few seconds of teasers in videos so I do not bother watching them.

Same here. She stole yggdrasil energie, winter energie and for what? To create the Nyxonite? To empower Raven dragon? I think we will never know! Why she wants to defeat Deus? N was revealed but we don't know nothing about her.
I think she will be dragged into oblivion as the Deus brother.

@_thespacebeing_ I agree that both relic of life and legend of deus first stories are great. But they are not featuring the legends of deus these days. I want to see them again

@amogh-sai said in Nyxonite Dragon Rescue/Story Feedback for the SP Developers:

@_thespacebeing_ I agree that both relic of life and legend of deus first stories are great. But they are not featuring the legends of deus these days. I want to see them again

Same here and the LoD was the best and my favorite story, these last few ones have not been as engaging nor have the events around them been as good. It was not the story I was interested in with this one, it was only the artifact so that my teams can survive more battles.

So now that is is over, yay! will most be empowering Happiness over Positivity, if we ever get this thing turned on? I was going to empower Positivity but after all the work and money spent on it I will be empowering Happiness because he will be able to be used in both the Leagues and the Arenas as opposed to just the Leagues if I selected Positivity.

How do we activate the nyxonite artifact

Also, as I didn’t get the Artefact... I’m going to have to suffer 4 star Positivities in the leagues...

@_thespacebeing_ we are going to suffer both in leagues against 4 star high positivity and in arenas against 4 or 5 star happiness dragons

@amogh-sai said in Nyxonite Dragon Rescue/Story Feedback for the SP Developers:

@_thespacebeing_ we are going to suffer both in leagues against 4 star high positivity and in arenas against 4 or 5 star happiness dragons

Yeah well I have been suffering from 4 and 5 star legendaries in both...hence my obsession to get me one too. I have a few 3 star legendaries and 3 or 4 star epics but sadly none are fed up past level 40 because I just do not have the food...again hence my obsession to throw away 1800 of my earned gems to buy the food to level up this one to 65 but I had to use half of it just to get the thing.

@nynaevelan looks like I have to buy food as well to max my dragon roost. Currently doing a task which offers 1800 gems. If I get them, I'll buy food when 400% bonus shows up and a caged dragon. The rest will be for expanding my islands

@jimmbo-slice said in Nyxonite Dragon Rescue/Story Feedback for the SP Developers:

How do we activate the nyxonite artifact

I answered in the Rescue tips post.

I also agree with all what has been said and even as a player who doesn't mind spending a small amount of money, this was simply too much. I wont be doing one of these again if the format remains the same.

Also on rescues Cool down times at just way to long, max 8 to 10 hours on hard so you can at least use twice a day.

I like stories that go over a few events, but as many have said the first event at least must be doable without money or you just lose most the players.

My alliance has had at least 2 players quit the game over this event, do you want a game still in the future.

I am glad that I didnt jump on that train. The setup was like I thought when I saw how much money would be needed to get all dragons from the first event. We were told that we could get orbs for these dragons later to empower them. So I thought lets see if we can get enough to summon them later. But no way. There were not enough in the videos and I spent gems for the race but not enough to get to the laps that gave that orbs. And the quests were only for players that got the dragons already.
Oh. And there was a triple offer. We could choose to buy one of the dragons needed for 475 gems. But only one of them....
I just went for gold, food, tokens and what else I could get from the rescue. The dragons on easy and medium path were not important for me because I got them from the rescue in May already.
Now to the poor players who jumped on the train.
First they spent money to get them all from Summer Party Island.
Trap 1: There was an offer for yellow keys. If they had bought that they could have done only the hard path and would have had enough time to get green keys and for cool downs during the fights.
But we saw that there are yellow keys on the easy and medium path. Most of the players started with speeding up hatchings. They spent a lot of food for the four dragons needed and sped up quests to have enough keys to do easy and medium path to start the hard path early.
Trap 2: After spending all that time and money they stuck at the last door on medium path because there were no green keys available.
When the second key quest started they had not enough time to wait. They had to speed up these also because of the cool down times and required dragons on the hard path.
This was the worst setup ever. Not fun at all.
I love this game but I dont like many of the events. I feel with everyone who started to spend money and couldnt stop going on.
And about the story. I like this little videos but they wont help to make this attractive.

I often read the forum but did not write anything for the last seven months. This event was enough to force me to log in and give my opinion.

Event like this can be compare to having your hand caught in gears : you have to pull out or go through. Either way it’s no fun.

I really like what Susan and Aleweck wrote.

I'm a recently returned player after a long break.

I am perfectly willing to spend money, and in truth have spent WAY too much (I am by all definitions a whale)

And yet after I missed the first gold key offer (Had other financial priorities). I had absolutely no recourse to make up those lost keys. Since you had the 16 hour cooldown, it just pushed me way too close to the end of the event, with absolutely zero possibility of pushing further.

Again, I don't mind spending. But I couldn't speed up my cooldowns, I couldn't buy the keys to push through.

Even doing all the quests asap, and having all the dragons. That one missed purchase completely bottlenecked me.

That to me was the big mistake. I'm in that deep. Give me some actual way of pushing through it. But those cooldowns were killer.

I agree the story with several above that story wasn’t particularly engaging.

Apart from the general frustration of wait times, I was out of this “story” in the first round so it was just tedious and a good excuse not to spend money.

It was also badly run. The day after the rescue ended I was getting pop ups to buy keys. A pop up that didn’t appear during the rescue.

Regarding the story line - I am new to dragon city so having missed previous story lines - it didn’t make much sense as I didn’t even really know who deus was.

If you are going to tell a story - please make it more compelling. The story also feels unfinished - I guess that’s what you want us to feel - ready for the next time?

On the other hand - I guess we wrote the end of the story with the final battle.

I am feeling so bad seeing many people get those orbs in fb, not because they got it just because I didn't even have a chance at getting them. If only I had a chance ......

@vikas-nambiar many of us didn't get either and if they say that legends of deus memorial can empower any of the legends. There will horrible scenarios.
I have the memorial but if they do so, I'm dead

As someone who usually does not comment into general feedback of most events on the forum, I find that this entire event, in particular, is one of the most anti-climatic Dragon City story conceived. I'll break this down into 5 major points on the issues and positives of the event.

1. Lack of Continuation
   I'm surprised that the story managed to not mention other previous dragons from other stories such as Dracon or even Kenny. These characters were already established sufficient enough to have their stories continued on. The lack of any of these characters including Yggdrasil is seriously questionable when the dragons needed for the entire event could have easily been replaced by those dragons. Nyx also proved to have little to no explanation on to what she tried to do since the 15 seconds videos fail to explain what Nyx did. It would have been an amazing chance to bring older story dragons back to stop Nyx as it would have made the Rescue event feel more serious. It's never even explained what happened to them while this event occurred which felt disappointing.

2. The 4 Summer dragons
   Although these designs were well designed it didn't feel worthy to get them and more as artificial progressing. It only got worse when the first event could only give you 1st dragon for free while the others would be obtained far more difficult to get. Sadly it became so much of annoyance to get them that even now I still can't remember their names correctly as they were. Even the heroic become time grinding and somewhat forgettable by the end of the story.

3. Quests
   Half the quests were not obtainable for me as I wasn't able to get all the dragons needed which got me infuriated as the Rescue event proved no empowerment was needed even though it was advertised that would be a significant requirement to complete. If it had no requirements I probably would have more care into these Quests to summon the dragons needed for the Rescue and could have separated the orb rewards more.

4. Rescue
   As other users pointed out already Rescue events have far too many issues that ended happening. The keys could have been removed altogether to make it more fun but instead became an artificial difficulty for what to do. It's either the cooldowns or keys that really need to be changed to make it better. I even had seen people angerly complaining they couldn't get the final reward because of the cooldown in the Raven battle.

5. Transparency
   As a person working for nearly an entire year on a project about Heroic dragons, I was highly excited to release what I had long spent time analyzing heroics in a report around last month ago. That did not occur however since the release of High Positivity made my efforts halted as now I have to account such a big reward. This felt like a huge slap in the face of my work and I felt this could have been more alert in advance of such a big change. Alerts of the cooldowns on the Rescue could have been given on all the Paths along with important tips instead of leaving twists up in the air far longer than they should.

Positives

After all the issues I will admit at the very least the designs of the dragons were well made along with the reward being highly worthy if you were able to get it. However, making it only possible for people spending significant amounts of money on this event should have not been the focus. There's not much I can exactly say as the number of rewards was limited all around. Hopefully, you can improve the next Story event and make it relevant to other dragons from the previous stories and give more context to what is happening.

@nynaevelan these comments are telling me that it was the right decision to stop playing DC. Or not exactly stop, but rather to confine myself to the low-hanging fruits, i.e. easy-to-get free dragons. I lost interest, even didn't participate in the last Heroic Race for the first time in 2 years!
Too many interconnected events, bad timing which requires you to speed up breeding/hatching/empowering etc. with gems, way too ambitious for 95% of the player base...
SP, this strategy will not work out! You will lose many long-time players if you continue like that.
The mess started at about the time when Yggdrasil was introduced. The way they set up this whole empowering/orb collection feature is turning people away from the game.
Just my humble opinion.

@notme To cut a long story short: If an event contains 3 ways: easy, medium, and hard, I expect that the easy way can be completed by every f2p player, the medium way can still be completed f2p, but only if your strategy is perfect. And the hard way can be completed only for paying players.
This is how it should be. Everything else doesn't make sense.

@tom13 why exactly should the hard difficulty be for P2P players? Imo easy,medium, and hard should be for different types of players. Like easy should be for players who have just started playing/ newbies or players who have weak dragons and hard should be for veteran players who have strong dragons to push through. The advantage for P2P would be to speed through the rescues and get the rewards whereas f2p should wait for all keys/quests to get the rewards. If the hard were really for P2P then it would be better if sp just calculated the amount of money required for the P2P to get those rewards and tell them to buy it rather than making them work hard after spending money.

@vikas-nambiar said in Nyxonite Dragon Rescue/Story Feedback for the SP Developers:

@tom13 why exactly should the hard difficulty be for P2P players? Imo easy,medium, and hard should be for different types of players. Like easy should be for players who have just started playing/ newbies or players who have weak dragons and hard should be for veteran players who have strong dragons to push through. The advantage for P2P would be to speed through the rescues and get the rewards whereas f2p should wait for all keys/quests to get the rewards. If the hard were really for P2P then it would be better if sp just calculated the amount of money required for the P2P to get those rewards and tell them to buy it rather than making them work hard after spending money.

Personally I think it should be:

Easy - newbies or those without enough dragons to fight through the nodes
Medium - low to mid level players, again success is based on number and strength of dragons
Hard - advanced or veteran players with numerous or strong dragons

All should be possible for everyone, paying should only be if you choose to gem quests or buy keys, it should not be required for anyone on any path.

@nynaevelan said in Nyxonite Dragon Rescue/Story Feedback for the SP Developers:

@vikas-nambiar said in Nyxonite Dragon Rescue/Story Feedback for the SP Developers:

@tom13 why exactly should the hard difficulty be for P2P players? Imo easy,medium, and hard should be for different types of players. Like easy should be for players who have just started playing/ newbies or players who have weak dragons and hard should be for veteran players who have strong dragons to push through. The advantage for P2P would be to speed through the rescues and get the rewards whereas f2p should wait for all keys/quests to get the rewards. If the hard were really for P2P then it would be better if sp just calculated the amount of money required for the P2P to get those rewards and tell them to buy it rather than making them work hard after spending money.

Personally I think it should be:

Easy - newbies or those without enough dragons to fight through the nodes
Medium - low to mid level players, again success is based on number and strength of dragons
Hard - advanced or veteran players with numerous or strong dragons

All should be possible for everyone, paying should only be if you choose to gem quests or buy keys, it should not be required for anyone on any path.

That's exactly what I said....

After about 5 years of DC playing and level 101, i have now uninstalled it. This 'event' was the last straw. I love the community but the gameplay got too demanding and unfair on players looking to spend moderate amounts on it.
Good luck all, i'll miss the community!

@drpetrea said in Nyxonite Dragon Rescue/Story Feedback for the SP Developers:

After about 5 years of DC playing and level 101, i have now uninstalled it. This 'event' was the last straw. I love the community but the gameplay got too demanding and unfair on players looking to spend moderate amounts on it.
Good luck all, i'll miss the community!

Miss you too. If you have your account connected to Facebook, then install the game again if you want to breed some VIPS

@drpetrea said in Nyxonite Dragon Rescue/Story Feedback for the SP Developers:

After about 5 years of DC playing and level 101, i have now uninstalled it. This 'event' was the last straw. I love the community but the gameplay got too demanding and unfair on players looking to spend moderate amounts on it.
Good luck all, i'll miss the community!

will miss you @drpetrea ... sorry to see you go

For me the dragon rescue crashed fighting the boss on the medium path which cost me the Dark Sorath dragon!

Because of the cool down times and it being the last night I wasn't able to try again, even though I would have won the battle!!! The dragon I was fighting had basically no health left when it crashed. (Edit: it crashed and the dragons I used to fight it had the cool down but it didn't save any damage they had done to it)

I spent a bunch of gems on quests to get the keys to get to that point. And tons of food leveling up dragons for fighting! But when I reported it they said they can't do anything about it
I'm a pretty religious player, seems like the least that could be done was to give me the dragon I would've won?

And yes I pretty frequently clear my cache, but the game crashes a lot for me and I've tried all the guides to stop it.

In addition I was unhappy with the first part of the summer race. Considering you couldn't even get half the summer dragons without paying I felt very discouraged for the rest of the event.

I figured there was no way I'd be able to get the artifact for free, I know you have to pay for some stuff or they don't make money but this event was no fun for me.

I didn't even attempt the Hard path because after the previous Dragon Rescue where we needed specific dragons to progress. On those I spent gems rushing the last few key quests to get myself the needed keys, and then couldn't proceed because of the cooldown on the one specific dragon I needed. I wasn't going to do that again so I skipped it.

The annoying part of an event like this is that it pulls gems/money out of you early to get one thing, thinking that's all you'll need to get. Then you learn progressively about the other things you need. It takes advantage of the sunk cost fallacy to make players keep pushing out gems/money to get the next piece of it. Since they already spent 900 gems on the dragons they needed and 500 to get the orbs to empower them, because it's not clear if they need to be empowered or not, and then 250 more rushing all the quests to get the keys. If the game had just said it's 1650 gems to get the keys and all the dragons at the beginning, nobody would have done it.

@arti - the game also crashes for me usually only during rescue events or battles - they said it was my internet connect, it doesn’t happen on other games though.

@random_s said in Nyxonite Dragon Rescue/Story Feedback for the SP Developers:

@arti - the game also crashes for me usually only during rescue events or battles - they said it was my internet connect, it doesn’t happen on other games though.

Does this happen on mobile or facebook/pc, there are issues with the rescues on pc?

@nynaevelan

For me it happens on mobile during rescues, quest battles, and occasionally during the heroic race after I've gotten items. Each time it happens it ends up costing me time or gems.

It's never cost me a whole dragon before though. After being a non stop player I can't believe they won't credit me the dragon I lost because of the bugs

Makes me want to stop playing. I was already discouraged after the nyxonite event in general