yknow what? i cant technically support any dragon becoming a gen 1, but i’m actually going to do this, because its fun and i like poking fun at snobby jerks who pay for things and then pretend they beat the rng themselves.
so, how to get the gen 1 dragon color scheme of your dreams, since it’s the only thin you can’t do for a gen 1 anymore, and why not make pretty gen 1s more accessible for players that aren’t filthy rich:
each time you hatch an egg, you are given 2 potential dragons. you can choose to keep one of them, a nice cool gen 1 right off the bat, or you can “preserve” one. preserved eggs/dragons cannot be traded or sold, to prevent rich players from simply buying the preserved dragons they want.
the egg gets marked as a preserved egg, and while technically it has the information of the random gen 1 dragon you chose, it can never possibly be hatched. do this with two eggs, and make sure that the dragons that get preserved are compatible to breed with each other.
now that you’ve done that, get a third egg. it cannot be breed-specific to a breed that is not one of the first two dragons, but any flight-specific egg is allowed. when one of your nests opens up, you go to your hoard, and select “use” on one of your preserved eggs. you are then given a choice, like the breeding menu, except with the other preserved eggs in your lair instead of dragons. after you confirm your choice, you are given a second page, where you pick one of your unhatched eggs.
these nests take ten days to incubate, since if i make it five people will complain. also, there is a cooldown of 15 days before you can do this again, and you cannot hatch (or start hatching) any other eggs while the nest is incubating. regular dragon breeding is unaffected by this.
at the end of the ten days, the egg is available to be hatched. you cannot preserve this egg (unless your account is under 2 years old jkjk im not going to be that petty) and it is generated as if the two eggs were simply the parent dragons, taking into account the breed/flight of the egg it came from. the only real difference from regular breeding is that this hatchling is marked as a gen 1.
there is no way to tell the difference between a regular gen 1 and an engineered gen 1 once they have hatched.
a sincere “fuck you” to everyone who likes to say they beat the rng while simply buying other’s winnings. there is no way to tell a vial primal from a natural primal. there would be no way to tell a engineered gen 1 from a natural gen 1. there is no way to tell if a dragon was gened, or scatterscrolled, or renamed.
criticisms welcome, as it’s very fun to try and write up a whole new mechanic. the only unwelcome ones are “but the economy” (fuck you, play the stocks and lose), “too hard to code” (this is a fake suggestion) and “but the rng” (explained that in my last post. go there.)
specifically welcome criticisms are ways to make this easier and more accessible for new players without making it easily exploitable by rich ones, and ways to piss off snobby elites even more. (i might even make it so you can choose from the preserved dragons’ eye types! who knows, it might be fun.)
