Riddle me this. If you had a choice between no events or a break between them, one event that you could reasonably complete or several events at once but a low chance of completing one or more which choice would you pick?

Personally I would choose one at a time first, a small break between them second and our current bombardment of events with low success rates...not at all.

I'm with you. I am tired of the constant stream of events. I have so many dragons that need to be either hatched, empowered, fed to a useful level, powered up for fighting & whatever else that I can't keep up with them. It's hard when so many events require breeding, hatching, feeding that I can't get the dragons I already have taken care of. I really would like a break between events.

Hi, I prefer the current sequence of events. A player who cannot do all the events because they were busy is their choice. But for other people such as me who actually likes to be engaged a lot - multiple events, back-to-back events is a preference.

A player cannot complete the events because most of them are not using money (which I am doing the past few times) or they don't use the free resources adequately.

To each his/her own preference, but I am guessing that if SP put a blank or rest time between events, other players will start playing another game and they might choose the new game over DC (maybe because DC is more expensive or becoming repetitive).

And like Dragonista says - if you have many pending things to do in your game (hatching, organizing your island) you can choose to concentrate on those and miss out the events. (is one option)

@nynaevelan We need to go back to a time where there's no back-to-back events just like the beginnings of Dragon City.
One event at a time, too.

My first reaction was to go with one-event-at-a-time with some breaks. But GemSpender makes a good point that we could take our own breaks... except for the factor that taking a break means missing out on new dragons for an unknown amount of time.

So what about a 6-day-on + 1-day-off or 12-days-on + 2-days-off schedule for events which encompass most of the new legendary or higher dragons, with additional events mixed in to feature older dragons that aren't widely available anymore?

Those who want a chance to slow down get it, and those who want to go hard all the time still get something out of that too.

same as @Nynaevelan ...

1. one at a time
2. a small break between them ... just 1 day would be fine ... there's still hatching and feeding and upgrading islands and things to do during a break
3. full scale bombardment of events

... especially during an Heroic Race it is tough ... with other events mixed in, it is extremely difficult to strategically time things for the Race and the event i.e. collect gold for the event or wait to collect when it is needed for the Race ... ugh! ... then there's also work and sleep and kids, etc. to factor in ...

I don’t mind cross events if they are “doable”, which they haven’t been. The pickaxes event was ridiculously BAD, putting it mildly.

The shooting star event was ok. The cross event dragon rescue was ok, again because it was doable, although hard. I pride myself in finding tricks into efficiently doing things, but the january events were obvious crap cash grab. Im sure SP is already making money forcing us to watch random ads that pops up in the middle of our session.

Anyhoo....yeah, one doable event at a time right now would be nice cause i need a break from these trashy events.....i see we have 2 puzzle events again this month. I dread to imagine how they messed up thar up this time round.

I really miss the time when I had time to watch what animations dragons have or rearange or decorate islands. Now I am just rushing through hatching, breeding, feeding, collecting food and so on. I have no time (and I am spending a lot on the game) to enjoy my dragons. If I want to have progress I have to spend most of my free time just to do events. That is too much. I am extremly addicted. I dont know when I have to stop playing because it really takes too much time from my real life.

@gemspender said in Player Survey about Events:

To each his/her own preference, but I am guessing that if SP put a blank or rest time between events, other players will start playing another game and they might choose the new game over DC (maybe because DC is more expensive or becoming repetitive).

Players are doing that atm. So that can not be the reason to do less events or having breaks between events.

@bettina-löffler said in Player Survey about Events:

@gemspender said in Player Survey about Events:

To each his/her own preference, but I am guessing that if SP put a blank or rest time between events, other players will start playing another game and they might choose the new game over DC (maybe because DC is more expensive or becoming repetitive).

Players are doing that atm. So that can not be the reason to do less events or having breaks between events.

agreed ... the wait periods during Heroic Races are sometimes ridiculous ... or not providing enough Quests to complete a task is just bad planning; during long wait periods, I play other games so that amounts to the same thing as a blank or rest time between events.

Hi all,

1. Limited quests during races - SP must be intentionally doing these so that we spend gems to progress.

2. Two Puzzle/Miss dragons if not playing event to concentrate on other aspects of game - I think a player should realize that at some point we have to stop getting new dragons and concentrate on getting food, tokens, and RnE.

I need 250+ dragons to be considered as completing all dragons, but with duplicates, low level habitats I am running out of space.

Plus, frankly speaking, I think that I should concentrate on life and retirement savings. He he

I wish the game would slow down.
I don't like the time-overlapping events where a new one starts while the previous one is still ongoing.
I especially dislike having events tied together so that you need to play both to progress in either. Rescues are awful.
Dragons are being churned out at an increasing rate, more new ones in every event. I have about 900 now and will soon run out of habitats and space. Tokens come too slowly now to help with this.
Heroic dragons are no longer special, the races are too frequent, every six or eight weeks would be better than every four, I have said this before.
And I have also said before, the game needs to slow down a bit for people to enjoy it more.
I would prefer back-to-back events with no break between.
I would like to see the big reward dragon actually be achievable more often.
And to be able to bypass the lesser dragons more easily, why should I have to travel nearly to the end of the path of old dragons I already have just to get a key to the path of the dragon I want? Put the keys up earlier!

I do like having an event to do all the time though, but I do think some events could do with changes.

Grid- Ok as of now, but I liked it more when you could skip a dragon if you wanted to. Now the maps are basically the same, the Oni Island and this new one have a nearly identical map.

Fog- I like these especially when 250 gems are offered. I do think the prices for the final piece are a little too high.

Maze- My personal favourite. You can still kind of pick and choose which dragons you want here, and limited time paths were a good idea. You can mostly get the new legendary here too.

Tower- Again, I think prices get too high as you reach the top, and there isn’t enough time for these. 3 days is not long enough for a Tower.

Progressive- Although these types of events can be considered gone, as we’ve not had one for a year now, I thought they were ok. However they do need work like a heroic Race.

Heroic Race- Everything That everyone else has said is exactly how I feel too.

Puzzle- I’m in the middle here. You can get a good load of prizes here, and the event coin prizes are nice. Some of the missions are a little extreme like breeding 5 Pure hybrids, which can’t even be done in a 7 day event without speeding up with gems.

Runner- Second favourite- It is a nice touch that it is based on not only collecting items, but also skill, letting talented players get far, and not restricting everyone to a certain max amount of points.

Rescues- in need of desperate improvement. I’m not going to rant about this right now, and this post is ling enough already.

As new player (well less than 4 months) I think there are too much events. I have currently 143 different dragons, 5 (4L + 1H) in hatchery and still 21 eggs in storage. I cannot breed from breeding island as I'm full with eggs.
I'm still not familiar with all kin of events but my favorite is the heroic race. It is possible to win an heroic dragon without doing so much efforts. Reaching lap 15 is okay. But hatching / breeding is so tedious and prickly that apart I have nothing to do during next event I won't go for Lap 21. Between hacthing / breeding I have done more than 700 attempts between Lap 14 and 21.
Regarding puzzle, quests for 50 coins are hard, time dragons can't be completed without real money. Also dragons with counted moves can't be completed in the limited move amount. 10 gems and 15 gems (25) are the prices I accept to pay to get a new dragon. I won't repeat this on next event.
Tower is a no go event for me. I collect daily coins and on last day I collect only food. I have not been able to complete a dragon is this kind of event but rare kind.
Path event is now a no go event too. I spend 30/40 euros on my first one (Christmas) to get 2 legendary dragons of same element.

I like DC because of dragon designs that are pretty cool. When I try it I was thinking that maybe it could be an alternative to the game I am playing for 3 years now (a P4N game, for sure one the most expensive game on the market, there was F2P, P2W and C2P but they create P4N, pay for nothing, you pay and don't get nothing in return) but no. I'm fine to spend less than 10 euros a month in a game but spending 30/40 euros for a single dragon is a no go for me.

I would like:

Fewer races. Every 2 months instead of every month. The races as they've been are good though. Not too hard, don't feel like I have to spend money to win them.

Every other race should be an Alliance race, but re-work them so they're not ridiculously hard.

More things to do with your alliance, like raid-type events where you all contribute dragons to try to get through a Dragon Rescue together.

Let me give the extra dragons I have lying around to my alliance friends.

This last Dragon Rescue with no keys was great, but it seems like there was no way for DC to make money on it at all. I don't care if they have a way to monetize, just don't make me spend $$ to advance toward keys that I still can't get without spending more. Make it a permanent feature, you can always do a dragon rescue on the side for some benefits...

Puzzles are fun, they should make it a permanent feature though, where you can always do the puzzle to get food or gold, introduce dragons and better stuff on a rotating basis.

I would be fine if they never do another maze/fog/grid type event again. They take no effort or thought. The only thing I have to do is see which of the dragons I can afford and just tediously work my way to them. I poke the icon and it moves a little ways down and then I get a little bit of food and poke it again. There's no mystery or challenge just a straight math equation if I'm going to make it or not.

Towers are fine, but it's annoying that you sometimes have to pay to get to the top. It's pretending to be random when it's not. You should have to fight on the way up, for more potential success. Give it something other than poke... wait to see if I got lucky... poke...

I agree with most of the above players.

1. Fewer heroic races would be nice, every 8 weeks seems appropriate. I like the recent changes to provide joker orbs instead of more tokens, and also like the speed laps to earn orbs for the legendary dragon awarded in the race. This is a nice way to obtain a 2 star category 9 dragon without spending too many gems (usually requires a few extra spins on the wheel to succeed in completing lap 20 for 200 orbs, but compared to the orbs shop, this is a relatively good value).

2. The new dragon rescue format without keys was great, and the large amount of food awarded was extremely helpful. I hope rescues continue in this format at least periodically. I do think some version of an “alliance dragon rescue” would be very fun as well.

3. I like frequent events, but it is nice to provide some time in between races and puzzle events, as they both keep breeding grounds and hatcheries occupied and make it a lot more difficult to breed and hatch as players normally would. For this reason I am in favor of keeping maze, fog, and grid type events because they simply require collection. The fog islands are also very nice when a large chest of gems is available.

4. The ability to “donate” dragon eggs to alliance members would be a neat feature. I have numerous duplicates in storage that I will struggle to ever hatch, unless they are a specific dragon I am trying to empower and could use the recall for more orbs. It seems wasteful to simply sell all these extra VR, E, and L eggs for modest amounts of gold, and so they will just continue to clutter up my storage unless I can give them away in the future.

5. Runner islands should return to a longer time period, with the legendary dragon orbs randomly available on the course. This is one of the few “skill based events,” where players had the ability to gain large numbers of orbs for particular dragons. For example, during the celestial wind event, it was possible to gather enough orbs to empower melted and celestial wind to 3 stars and also to reach the mythical egg chest without spending (and maybe some players did even more). If the towers, maze, fog, and grid events are going to usually require cash to complete, it is nice to balance the game with events where substantial rewards can be gained without spending lots of dollars or gems (races, puzzles, and runner islands).

6. I will say that although it is not possible to fully complete a maze event with the available free coins, it is always possible to complete several paths and so players at least have a nice choice in how to proceed. I like that a category 9 with orbs for empowerment seems to always become available near the end of the maze event, so players can gather a good dragon for fighting if desired, or they can focus on collection.