So guys, i was pretty hyped because i like these races, but it seems like SP have put a lot more of the epic breeding quests back in, unlike last race.
Looks like SP werent getting enough gems out of us last race :)

@Lassem Highly disappointed in SP over this, I thought they had learned a lesson, guess not. Last race was much better but in the 2nd lap we get "First member to breed 7 Epic monsters" quest, please fork over 110 gems to continue........

Yeah man. We are on lap 4 right now and already had 4-5 quests involving epic breeding, whester solo or joint effort, still must be gemmed :x

It's almost as if SP is TRYING to take the fun out of the game. Our team is once again stuck in an unwinnable group, so matchmaking didn't get fixed. Even so, we would have enjoyed competing with the same tasks as last race - but, no, it's back to being only for spenders. The community gave them so many ideas and options to make it better for everyone, and what did they do? Revert it back to the way that NO ONE BUT BIG SPENDERS WANT.

Edit: please watch your language per forum rules.

@Lassem I agree with you guys, there should be no epic or legend breeding in the races, neither team or solo. But these races are nothing but gems hoggers no matter how you slice it.

@Nynaevelan said in Team Race [epic breeding]:

@Lassem I agree with you guys, there should be no epic or legend breeding in the races, neither team or solo. But these races are nothing but gems hoggers no matter how you slice it.

Btw how is your team group ? are you into it ? it is your name on it ;)

Well it earns a lot of money from people in top teams like BOA who reached 118 laps or los cracks who reached 120 laps. imaging how much people spend to get that amount of laps, probably a ton. SP earns a ton from using gems to skip nodes, so they will never remove quests like epic breeding and we will probably be seeing more epic breeding in more races and probably legendary breeding.

How are people ever gonna get fairness in the races, everyone wants the monster as well, you can't just have teams go up against spenders, how are we supposed to win or even want to try to win? I just honestly find it unfair for f2players (like myself) since gems are scarce resources and no way i'll be spending it on a monster that isn't as good as what a 249 gems monster bring. I want to collect the monster but SP just keeps making things harder and harder

but what i'd really love to see (but SP would only do this if they actually care about the players and not just money) is a team race where you can't spend gems, and stupid rules such as epic breeding is removed.

Our team has only 10 members (out of 30) of level 60 or higher, and 3 more members between 50 and 60.
We are matched with a team that has only one member under level 70 and 29 members with higher level.

How is that fair in any way?

Well I guess I was lucky enough to join a good team and now we are on 14th lap. But spenders don't do all the job. I already have reached 5m food in individual rewards but only spent gems for things such as farming and rune crafting.

What do I need to breed an epic the quickest?

I have Firesaur and Pegasus, which gives either Greenasaur (UC) or Pandaken (R) in 30 seconds, so that is awesome for individual rewards, but for an Epic I would be stumped.

Tarzape + Thundenix gives Dragonian Beast (2hours)...but Rhynex, Rabidex & Griffex (Griffin?) are in the mix too...

@ss13 Oh thanks, but I don't have either of them anymore. :(

@Clackers tarzape= Treezard + Rockilla; Thundenix = Thunder eagle + Firesaur...Thundenix is the longer breed (2 hours, I think)...

The Epic breeding nodes were/are much earlier in the race than previous ones this time it seemed.

May just have been completely random, or it was designed to pose an early road block against F2P and paying teams.

@MarshallTheBeef Well I have already got 4.1m food rewards from this event - but my team doesn't bother playing, so we haven't even completed a lap yet :o

I'll start off by saying that I too very much dislike all these epic breeding quests! Seems like every lap starting with the 2nd one has had at least 1 quest involving breeding epics. And let's be honest, the only way to pass those is by spending gems.
Either you pay the quest cost, or you gamble breeding and hatching over and over again (not recommended).

That being said, I'd like to shine some light on why the race isn't as "bad" as it's constantly portrayed to be...at least for the winning team

In order to get a rank 3 monster, you need 640 cells + a copy of a monster.
Thus you would need 7 copies of a monster you want to get to rank 3.

In terms of food you would need a total of 16,486,340 food to get 1 monster to rank 3.
(~2.2mil food * 6 monsters you'll feed to lv 100 to extract)
(3,559,020 food needed to level up a monster all the way to 115)

Now assuming a monster goes on sale for 249 gems, you would have to spend 1,743 gems to purchase that monster.
(249* 7 copies of the monster you need)

And how about all that hatchery time and extracting time (more gems if you want to rent extra pods).

So, for just 1 player to get a rank 3 monster, the player would need:
1,743 gems.
16.5 million food.
~ 1 week of hatching/extracting

If you win the race, your WHOLE team gets a rank 3, plus a legendary monster, plus 60 elementium, plus all those wonderful individual rewards.
If as a team you collectively spent less than 52,470 gems (1,749*30), then you got a really amazing deal!

Now of course there are those team that spend a lot 100+ laps, but I imagine those teams are in the minority, whereas the teams that win with 20-30 laps or less are in the majority.

Furthermore, a team can just not participate in the race. Just get their 4 laps in and enjoy their free legendary monster, 5 elemetium, and 500k food. I think they get individual rewards too, up tp 5 mil food?

I think what they should do is to just take out all epic breeding tasks (other than maybe the 4 members must breed one epic) and just say one member must spend 100 gems and all members must contribute as much as they can to spend 120 gems (in 10 gem increments).

That way there is no pretense that they are presenting us with an actually achievable tasks. Basically just call it what it is!!!

Alternatively, they could reduce epic breeding time during the race to 6 hours or something like that. At least you can then work on some epic ranking at the same time and get something else out of it!

They way it is now is just dishonest and stupid!!!

@David-ML Agreed. I haven't seen the PvP tasks... must've swapped them out for epic breeds...epic harrumph! I'll settle for Erebus, thank you.