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[quote name="Nenya" date="2014-10-02 09:55:20"]No. What we need is encouragement to exalt, to take dragons OUT of the pool rather than trying to restrict how many dragons go IN.[/quote] [b][u]This.[/u][/b]

No support for reducing nest size the weighted clutch average is 2.7 eggs (mixed breed) or 2.54 eggs (same breed), which is quite reasonable. Reducing clutch sizes impact would be minimal however it would make breeding projects extremely frustrating. For players breeding a relatively narrow range for a project dragon, it can currently take several breedings to reach the goal and reducing the nest size would it even more difficult for players. I say the reason why it wouldn't have much of an effect is because the dragon population has already passed its saturation point.

Making all the current dragons in the AH go away will upset a lot of players, and if they pay exalt payouts, it would result in a huge influx of treasure which would cause economic troubles.

Even combining exalting of dragons for sale with cutting nest size would only have a temporary effect because most players have reached the saturation point in their lairs. They aren't buying enough dragons to compensate the numbers coming in. As such prices will drop quite quickly to current levels because the supply will still outstrip demand.

Prices are set by supply and demand. The reason why dragon prices are so slow is because the supply far outstrips the demand. Dragons do not die and do not have to be replaced, they also can produce other dragons indefinitely; thus by their inherent design they aren't worth much. They were never intended to be a major source of profit. It is quite possible to make a living breeding dragons, although this generally involves finding a niche and being good at marketing.

One of the best ways to 'fix the tanking dragon prices' is to encourage exalting (without increasing treasure payouts) as it removes excess dragons from the game. Its already been shown that doing so improves prices as is evident by how prices rise during a dominance battle. Ways to do this include Fayd's Overhaul or an exalt shop.

It's also possible to reduce the supply by voluntarily having players take dragons out of the breeding population by encouraging eternal youth dragons or adding a new life stage like 'elder' where breeding is disabled (or only possible via an item) but give a benefits such as increased stats or benefits in upcoming features for having a player choose to have a dragon become an elder. Another way to reduce the supply is by having new features that reset the cooldown so that there are options beyond breeding. (Yes you can coli and breed at the same time, but adding new things that requrie a cooldown means players will choose between breeding that dragon this time or using it in the new feature)

Generally its best to use positive encouragement to have an effect rather than have negatives such as fees or taking things away and changing them to that they are less likely which feel like punishment for playing the game.

ORRRR rather than just tossing people a carrot you can use the stick AND the carrot drop the max amount of eggs increase exalting maybe also add in elders


instead of just being negative about the idea presented perhaps give critical advice and present your thoughts on how it can be improved
i think dropping how many eggs are in a nest would be a good thing. most of the time having a 5 egg nest WASN'T a good thing for me when i was still breeding i never had enough room and i was participating in the mass exalting of dom pushes

i think it's very strange how the same people stressing exalting JUST stated that mass exalting doesn't work lowering how MANY dragons needed to be exalted would assist in the removal of more dragons rather than leaving the eggs at the same and expecting people to play the way you want them to by exalting MORE the suggestion of lowering how many dragons come into the site AT A TIME would assist in exalting dragons would be valued more if you had to work a little at getting hat you wanted and didn't just have massive amount of dragons handed to you for extremely little actual effort that's why prices are so little now people care more about that space than the dragons if that's not seen as an issue then what is?