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This went from changing a dragons element to hatching dragons into different elements. I figure that is a good place for this conversation to go. There are many problems with renting a nest from another player, like the staff can't help you if they steal your dragon or if they lose access to their account. Waiting for the exact dragon you are looking for in the exact element on the AH is always a shot in the dark. I bet there are players risking ban by using an alternate account to bypass this problem, which makes a lot of problems for the site too.The problem with renting a nest is that you have no control over what happens to your dragon next. The other player can lose access to their account either by breaking the rules and becoming locked out, forgetting their password, or their internet goes out. They can even steal your dragon for their own breeding projects, exalting, etc. Staff also discourage these actions.
Changing your own account's element every time you need one or more dragons of another element is tedious. It takes a year to change element again, along with a huge amount of gems if it's not your first time changing elements. Holding off on breeding projects until the time is up can wane on the overall playing experience.
With no alternatives, players may risk ban by creating another account entirely for the sole purpose of having another element to rent nests in. This is a bannable offense for several reasons. It's really easy to abuse two accounts and make a lot of trouble.
A few players have pointed out some awesome alternatives to this. Like a new NPC that has nests you can hatch a dragon with an alternative element in, a new trading system between players so they can rent a nest safely, or an item to temporarily change the element of your nest. These are some amazing ideas that can solve several problems at once.
Players don't need to lose dragons to other accounts, you don't have to wait for a dragon that might never come, and players who are risking ban with alternate accounts don't need to. What do you think?
vvOriginal post for anyone wonderingvv
I keep running into this issue where I have the perfect dragon, but it's not the element I need for it. Unfortunately for me, friends that want to stay on the site are hard to come by. So I don't have someone in the flight I need to make the dragon I want. I have not heard of any ways to change the element of a dragon, so I have been brainstorming ways that that would work with the site.
There are 11 elemental holidays, what if every elemental holiday we could change a specific number of dragons to the element of the holiday? It could be a special scroll, or maybe a creation of each deity comes by once a year to change an element.
There could be restrictions. Dragons with elemental ability stones can't have their element changed, or their ability stones change with their element. They can only change a low number of dragons at a time, maybe they can't change their element for another year or ever. It could cost treasure, or items, or both in order to for the change to take place.
What do you think?
