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I'm still pretty new to the whole online pet collecting thing but I still have to say, as far as the look of the dragons go, they're some of the best some of the best, which is what attracted me to the site in the first place.
But collecting and raising dragons is a lot more involved, which makes it both fascinating and hair-pulling.
You have to buy your dragons - not literally with real money but with something called garnets. Which I'm sure isn't anything new in that I'm sure there's quite a few virtual pet sites that involve pretend monetary exchange, but it's new to me who's used to sites like Dragoncave, where you click and hope you get the dragon you want before someone else takes it.
And this is both a plus and, for me, a minus for Dragonopia. You can have any dragon you want as long as it's in stock and you have enough garnets. But earning garnets is a long and arduous process that involves clicking on other people's dragons, and getting up to ten garnets alone can take its sweet time. Getting enough to buy a rare dragon is going to take forever (unless there's some way to beef up garnet numbers that I don't know about, yet).
Another plus is that the site offers numerous ways to ensure your dragon gets clicked, from its forums to the Click Exchange. The downside to the click exchange, however, is that in order to keep your dragon in the click exchange you have to have credits. For each dragon you click, you gain credits. For each time your own dragons are clicked, you lose credits. If your credits get down to zero, your dragons are removed from the click exchange. But it's not all hopeless if you find your credits getting low, because you can buy credits - one hundred for five garnets, not a bad deal.
But is Dragonopia a place I'd recommend for avid dragon collectors. Well, if you're an avid dragon collector willing to take a lot of time earning credits and garnets, then heck yes (it's really not that hard. I keep Dragonopia in a separate tag and flip back and forth between it and my other Internet activities). But if you're an obsessed virtual dragon collect who must have that expensive five hundred garnet dragon, then you may want to stay away from this one.
Adopt your own virtual Dragon today!
But collecting and raising dragons is a lot more involved, which makes it both fascinating and hair-pulling.
You have to buy your dragons - not literally with real money but with something called garnets. Which I'm sure isn't anything new in that I'm sure there's quite a few virtual pet sites that involve pretend monetary exchange, but it's new to me who's used to sites like Dragoncave, where you click and hope you get the dragon you want before someone else takes it.
And this is both a plus and, for me, a minus for Dragonopia. You can have any dragon you want as long as it's in stock and you have enough garnets. But earning garnets is a long and arduous process that involves clicking on other people's dragons, and getting up to ten garnets alone can take its sweet time. Getting enough to buy a rare dragon is going to take forever (unless there's some way to beef up garnet numbers that I don't know about, yet).
Another plus is that the site offers numerous ways to ensure your dragon gets clicked, from its forums to the Click Exchange. The downside to the click exchange, however, is that in order to keep your dragon in the click exchange you have to have credits. For each dragon you click, you gain credits. For each time your own dragons are clicked, you lose credits. If your credits get down to zero, your dragons are removed from the click exchange. But it's not all hopeless if you find your credits getting low, because you can buy credits - one hundred for five garnets, not a bad deal.
But is Dragonopia a place I'd recommend for avid dragon collectors. Well, if you're an avid dragon collector willing to take a lot of time earning credits and garnets, then heck yes (it's really not that hard. I keep Dragonopia in a separate tag and flip back and forth between it and my other Internet activities). But if you're an obsessed virtual dragon collect who must have that expensive five hundred garnet dragon, then you may want to stay away from this one.
Adopt your own virtual Dragon today!
