Dragon Adopters Guide

Here guide for dragon adopters taken from www.dragonadopters.com

The dragon growth is influenced by 3 things:

• how much you visit your dragon
• how much other people visit your dragon
• items equipped on your dragon

If you don’t visit your Dragonpage for some time, the dragons will slowly grow less and eventualy stop growing. Be sure to always visit your dragons so they don’t get lonely. There is a LIMIT on how much your own page visits affect your dragon, so refreshing your Dragonpage WILL NOT make your dragons grow any faster after you exceeded the set daily limit.

Of course, other people will visit your dragon as well and that will make your dragon grow a bit faster. Though there’s a DAILY LIMIT of how much other peoples visits influence dragon growth. This means that after your pageviews passed this limit, they won’t contribute to your dragons growth at all. Please don’t ask others to visit your dragon.

We set these limits so that if you refresh your Dragonpage or someone else refreshes your Dragonpage all the time, it WON’T make your dragon grow faster after it exceeds the set limit. This is to prevent people from exploiting the system with refreshing.

Here are instructions on how to advertise your dragons.

DRAGON STAGES	LEVELS
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Egg :	levels 0-4
Hatchling :	levels 5-12
Child :	levels 13-24
Teenager :	levels 25-39
Adult :	levels 40-69
Ancient :	levels 70-110
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All dragons stop growing at level 110.

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As your dragons grow in level, which is displayed as a percentage on your Dragonpage, they produce more resources. The production of resources is displayed per day and it rises as your dragon level rises.

The production of your dragon is influenced by one thing, how much you feed your dragon. If you don’t feed him/her, the production will reduce and eventually the dragon will stop producing resources, it will reach zero.

RESOURCES such as Aura, Fur, and Scales are currency here on DragonAdopters. Each dragon produces two resources, aura and a secondary resource. The aura produced is based upon the dragon element and the type of scales or fur produced is based upon the dragon species. Resources are used to purchase food and materials, create items and exchange them on the Item Market or trade for other resources on the Resource Market.

All dragon eggs produce

. When your dragon hatches you may choose his/her element. Once your dragon’s element is chosen your dragon will start to produce the aura corresponding to that element.

• primary resource – Aura – depends on your dragon’s element
• secondary resource – Dragon Fur, Dragon Scales, Reptile Scales – depends on which dragon species

• Dragon Scales

  - Western dragons and Wyverns

• Reptile Scales

  - Lizardus, Dino dragons and Pterodragons

• Dragon Fur

  - Eastern dragons and Furdragons

ELEMENT	COLOR	AURA
———–	———–	———–
Earth	Green	Green Aura
Water	Blue	Blue Aura
Fire	Red	Red Aura
Air	White/Purple	White Aura
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Now let us proceed onto your Dragonpage. When you login, you’ll see your avatar image to the left with your username right above it. Next to your username will be the Adopt button so you can get your own dragon. Once you click on it, follow the instructions and adopt a dragon egg.

Your dragons are displayed on the tab right above the resources images. When you click on the dragon name in that tab, you’ll be guided to that dragons Dragonpage. The Dragonpage has all the information about your dragon, items equipped, status messages and item effects.

On the left you’ll see the main menu of the game and on the right are polls and news tabs. Our main focus will be on the game main menu which we’ll go through in the following game guide sections.

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In the STATUS section of the main menu you’ll see buttons regarding your account. My Account button enables you to upload your own Avatar and change your password. Also you’ll see on the top the permissions you have.

The Game Messages button is for ingame status messages, for example when your market offer has been accepted you’ll get a message. Sending Personal Messages is also available ingame, but please DO NOT spam other users asking to visit your Dragonpage.

You are also able to have your own Friends list ingame where you can see when your friends were last online and send them PMs.

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The first button in the main menu is the Dragon Care. This is where you feed your dragons. On the left you can see how much Dragon Food you have. You’re able to buy the food from the Buy Materials tab. You can use any resource to buy food. Next to the dragon food icon you can see all your dragons, their levels, status and how much food they’re consuming.

To feed the dragon you just need to enter the number of food (units) you want to give your dragon and click Feed Dragons. You can feed several dragons at once by giving each some food. In the Amount tab you’ll see how much food your dragons are consuming. Each dragon has a maximum amount of food it can carry, which depends on the dragon level. Older dragons can carry more food and they eat more too.

It is neccesary to feed your dragons, otherwise after 24 hours of no feeding they will become hungry and start to produce less resources than normal. After a longer period of time with no food, they will STOP producing resources completely. It would be a good idea for your dragons to always carry some food. The best thing you can do it stockpile your dragons with as much food as they can carry.

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The My Inventory has 20 slots. Items, Gems and special items go into these slots. Be careful not to make your inventory full, otherwise you will be unable to create new items or buy new items from the Item Market.
If your inventory is full and the 5 days limit on the Item Market has expired and your item needs to be returned to your inventory, it will be unable to return to the inventory because it is full. Instead the Item Market will send your item to the Factory and sell it for white aura.

You can see 4 icons on the top: Dragon Food, Metal, Silk and Leather. The amount of food and materials you have are displayed under the image.

After you create or buy an item, it will go into My Inventory. This doesn’t mean your dragon has the items nor gets bonus effects. You need to give your items to any of your dragons by just selecting the dragon you want to equip that item to. After you do that, the dragon will gain bonus effects from the items, which is described in detail on the Item Effects tab, just below the Status Messages on your Dragonpage.

The Dragon Inventory is displayed with 6 boxes around your dragon picture on your Dragonpage. Each dragon has their species specific items and universal items. Every dragon can carry maximum 6 items. More about species specific items you can find later in this guide.

When you equip the items to your dragon, it will gain a boost as described in the item details. The item effect boost only affects the dragon they’re equiped to. If you want your other dragons getting a boost, you’ll need to equip items on them too.

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There are four Materials: Gem Stones, Metal, Leather and Silk. You can buy materials and dragon food via the Buy Materials tab.

MATERIALS	COST
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Gem Stones	Aura
Metal	Dragon/Reptile Scales or Dragon Fur
Leather/Silk	Dragon Fur
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There are different Gem Stones which you need to create items with a specific level. You can buy Gem Stones via the Buy Gems tab.

Gems represent which level item you’re trying to create and the color of the Gem Stones is determined by which colored aura you bought the gem with. An item created from a Gem Stone will have the same color as the Gem Stone. Items that don’t require Gem Stones to create them, do require aura in the creation process and those items will have the same color as the aura you used to create them.

GEM STONE	LEVEL
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Pearl	lvl 10
Ruby	lvl 20
Diamond	lvl 30
Sapphire	lvl 40
Emerald	lvl 50
Topaz	lvl 60
Opal	lvl 70
Obsidian	lvl 80
Amethyst	lvl 90
Aquamarine	lvl 100
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ITEM	CAN BE WORN BY
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Ring	All Dragon Types (Each Dragon can wear 2 Rings)
Necklace	All Dragon Types
Dragon Scales Hand/Leg/Tail Bracelet	Western Dragons and Wyvern
Reptile Scales Hand/Leg/Tail Bracelet	Lizardus, Dino and Pterodragon
Ribbon/Scarf/Armband	Furdragon and Eastern Dragon
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Species specific items are items that can be worn only be a certain dragon species, which are listed above. For example, a Furdragon cannot wear the bracelets, just like the Western dragon cannot wear a scarf, etc.

A dragon can only wear the item if the level of the dragon is same or higher than the level of the item. Example: A level 15 dragon can’t wear a level 20 item, but the same dragon can wear a level 10 item. High level dragons can normaly wear lower level items than the dragon’s level.

Unique items are available when you have more than 20,000 rankpoints. Buy Unique Items tab will appear at this point.

6 Dragon Powders will be available to you. These items can be used only once and only on one dragon. They can change your dragon’s element and because they’re unique items they cost a lot.

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Creating items is one of the most important parts and goals of this game. In order to create items you will need materials which you can buy from the appropriate tabs on your Dragonpage. First thing you do is select the item you want to create and the level. After that click Next Step. In the next menu you can see what materials and how much resources are needed to create certain items. Of course, the higher the level of the item, the more expensive and hard it is to create it.

ITEM	PRICE
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Ring	metal + gem
Necklace	metal + gem
Dragon Scales Hand Bracelet	gem + dragon scales
Dragon Scales Leg Bracelet	gem + dragon scales
Dragon Scales Tail Bracelet	gem + dragon scales
Reptile Scales Hand Bracelet	gem + reptile scales
Reptile Scales Leg Bracelet	gem + reptile scales
Reptile Scales Tail Bracelet	gem + reptile scales
Ribbon	leather(lvl 10-50) or silk(lvl 60-100) + aura
Scarf	leather(lvl 10-50) or silk(lvl 60-100) + aura
Armband	leather(lvl 10-50) or silk(lvl 60-100) + aura
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• normal item – gives resource boosts
• special item – gives various special effects

Special items are much harder to get than normal items obviously. There’s a random chance in the creation process that you’ll get a normal or special item and also what kind of boost you’ll get and how much % it’s gonna be.

There are also SUCCESS RATES involved in creating items. They will be displayed in the menu before you create the item. These rates are the chance you have to create the item successfully. This means that sometimes you will succeed in creating an item and sometimes you will fail. In either case you will lose the resources and materials you spent into the creation process.

You can either equip your dragon with the items you created or sell them on the Item Market. If you just can’t seem to sell your items on the Item Market because nobody bought them, then you can always sell your item to the Factory via the Sell to Factory tab on the left.

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Each item has certain effects which boost dragon production or other special attributes. The level of the item determines how powerful the boost will be and the type of the item (normal or special) determines what kind of effect it will be. The higher the level, the more % the item will have.

Each item affects only the dragon it is equipped to. Only some special items affect the player in general, for example special necklaces.

ITEM	EFFECT
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Ring	normal – % Aura
	special – % pageview OR % growth
Necklace	normal – % Aura & Sec.Res.
	special – % success rate OR % rank
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Dragon Hand/Leg/Tail Bracelet	normal – % Dragon Scales
Dragon Hand Bracelet	special – % less hungry
Dragon Leg Bracelet	special – % growth
Dragon Tail Bracelet	special – % more happy
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Reptile Hand/Leg/Tail Bracelet	normal – % Reptile Scales
Reptile Hand Bracelet	special – % less hungry
Reptile Leg Bracelet	special – % growth
Reptile Tail Bracelet	special – % more happy
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Ribbon	normal – % Dragon Fur
	special – % more happy
Scarf	normal – % Dragon Fur
	special – % growth
Armband	normal – % Dragon Fur
	special – % less hungry
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Since special items give such powerful boosts, there are certain LIMITERS for the player dragons.

• only 1 out of all adopted dragons can wear a % rank special necklace
• only 1 out of all adopted dragons can wear a % success rate special necklace
• each dragon can wear only one % growth special ring
• each dragon can wear only one % pageview special ring

For example, one dragon can’t wear two % growth rings, but can still use % growth scarf and % growth ring. And if one of your dragons is wearing % rank necklace, all other dragons cannot wear a % rank necklace, but can wear other necklaces. Same applies for other limiters.

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You can add maximum 5 offers on the Resource Market at one time. You can set the amount of resource you offer and want by simply typing in a number in the indicated box. After you’re satisfied with the numbers, click Add Offer. Below that you can see all the currently placed offers on the market, the player who put it, how much he/she offers and wants in return and how long the offer has been on the market. The Status tabs displays if you have enough resources to accept the offer.

You can add maximum 10 items on the Item Market. In the indicated dropdown menu Select Item you’re able to see all your items in your inventory. You select an item you want to auction on the market and set the price and resource you want for it. When you’re ready, just click Add Item and the item will be transfered from the My Inventory to the Item Market. Below that you can see all the currently placed items on the market, the seller, item descriptions and how much resources the seller wants for the item. The Status tab displays if you have enough resources to buy the item and if you have enough room in your General Inventory.

Offers on both markets last for 5 days. After that your resources and items are returned to you. Remember, your inventory must not be full when the offer on the Item Market expires.

In order to prevent people from taking too much advantage of the markets, there are limiters in place on both markets. The daily limit is 50 offers on the Item Market and 30 offers on the Resource Market.

Each offer you add on any market and each offer you accept from any market is counted as 1. So every time you add an offer on the market it’s counted as 1, whether it expires or it was accepted by another player or you removed it. If another player accepts your offer, his/her counter is raised by 1, not yours. But if YOU accept another players offer, your own counter goes up by 1.

Be careful when you put up your offers. Making a mistake and then deleting the offer only to make a new one, will lead to both offers being counted.

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You are able to buy materials and dragon food from the factory via the Buy Gems and Buy Materials tabs. You cannot buy items this way. However you’re able to sell items to the factory via the Sell to factory tab.

The Sell to Factory tab enables you to sell your items when you aren’t able to sell it on the Item Market. You just select the item you want to sell and which resource you want for it.

Items sold in the factory will be pretty cheap, thus won’t earn you much resources. That’s why it is recommended you put your item on auction on the Item Market so that other players can buy it for your own set price.

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You’ll see this feature right below the dragon inventory on other players Dragonpages. You can only see Dragon Lottery on other players dragons, NOT your own dragons.

This feature motivates players to visit other peoples dragons in order to play the lottery. You can play it only 5 times in 24 hours and each time you’ll be offered with a reward based on your Ranking. After someone plays the lottery on another players dragon, it will be disabled for 12 hours. After that period the lottery will be enabled again.

There are two types of Dragon Lottery. One is throwing a coin, heads or tails. One will get you a prize, one will get you nothing. And second type is throwing a dice. Some numbers will get you various prizes and some numbers will get you nothing.

Good luck with the lottery!

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If you want more information about this feature, frequently asked questions about it and a guide, go here: www.dragonadoptersforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=36554.0

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Where to go to buy a background
You can buy backgrounds by going to the “Buy Backgrounds” tab. You have many different sorting options available to browse for the backgrounds you might wish to buy, these include sorting by the user name that created them (see “Uploading your own backgrounds”)

How to buy a background
You will have the option to join in an already existing auction, or if there isn’t one already started you can start a new auction on a background of your choice. Each auction will last 6 hours.

The starting auction prices
The price of a background starts at 100 of a randomly chosen resource set by the game. Each time an auction is completed the background starting price is increased by 10. The price decreases by 10 every 48 hours without an auction.

What happens once you have placed a bid
Once you have placed your bid you will be kept updated on your auction bid via the “Game Messages” tab. If someone makes a higher bid than yourself your aura will be returned to you and a message will be sent to your “Game Messages” box. You will then have the option to make a higher bid should you wish. Once the auction finishes, and if your bid has won, you will be sent a “Game message” advising you that your background is now available in your background inventory (see “Customize your dragon background”)

Reporting a background
If you see a background that appears to be breaking any of the background image rules, has copyrighted material used in its creation, stolen art, any sexual content, violence or any kind of offensive content, please report it. You can report the background by clicking on the “start auction” button and you will see “Report this background”. Please remember to give your reasons and any links to evidence to your report.

Where to find your new background
Once you have bought a background you can add it to any of your dragons by going to the “Customize Dragonpage” tab. Here you will see all the dragon/item backgrounds you have bought and be able to add them to any of your dragons. You even have the option to change the colour of your Dragon sheet! Your background inventory can hold up to 25 item, and 25 dragon backgrounds.

Adding a background to your dragon/s
Under SETTINGS you will see each of your dragons’ names and be able to select a background from the drop down list as well as set the colour for their Dragon sheet. Once you have finished changing all the settings click on “Update backgrounds”.

Deleting backgrounds
If you find you do not like a background and wish to delete it you can use the “Deleted selected background”. But be warned, once you delete a background from your profile you cannot get it back unless you buy another one.

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Uploading backgrounds is now available!
Once approved for uploading privileges(please go here to get approved) you can now upload your own background creations. Once uploaded, they are added to the background auctions and members are able to bid on your background. Although you will not receive the aura proceeds made by sales of your background, you will get your background free after a total of 10 successful auctions.

Background sizes
File size for background images are as follows:

• Dragon background
  Only jpg, png with the exact size of 183×122 Pixels.
  File size no larger than 50 KB!
• Items background
  Only jpg, png with the exact size of 127×386 Pixels.
  File size no larger than 100 KB!

How to upload your background designs
To upload your own designs go to the “Upload Backgrounds” tab. You can select which type of background you wish to upload with the option to upload a full item/background set in one go if you wish, this option is best if you have the full set. Once you have selected the images from your files you can see a preview of your background/s by using the “Preview” button. If you do decide to preview your backgrounds you will need to reselect your images from your files to proceed with the actual upload. Remember to give your backgrounds a name and confirm you have read the agreement for uploading images before you finally get to upload your background/s. Your background/s will now be available to buy in the background auctions.

Upload limit
You will only be able to make one upload per image and will have to wait 24 hours between image uploads. This is to help prevent people spamming the background market.

Dragonadopters 2.0 Backgrounds Game Guide v1.0 written by Wayvern

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For completing certain tasks in the game, golden achievment stars will be added to your game profile.

• Item Checklist Achievement – when you’ve filled your Item Checklist with all items.

More achievements are planned for the future.

Game Guide v4.0 written by Draconis