Storm Sphynx- 9-9-2014

[zenobia42]

I am still unhappy with this built in class stratification between the haves and the have nots. I am a lucky oddity, hanging by myself with my Air Force, somewhere between the two classes of players. Again, Sand you will need to help me out with this, but it seems to me that as this game matures, there will be an inevitable widening between the Haves and Have Nots because there doesn't seem to be a built in cost of living raise. In fact we have the opposite when wages were spread among 15 from 10 levels. It seems to me that as time passes, those who do eventually get their Gemstones, which I believe most will if they continue to try, but the gap between the affordability of items increases with each addition, in other words it costs more each time to expand, but those who are Haves will be able to make the income and keep up with the game, while the distance between those at the leading edge of the game and those who take a week or more to earn the million $ to expand a block seems like it would grow bigger with every new and more expensive addition to the game.

So, does anyone see this happening, or am I worrying about something that isn't going to happen? If it does though, does anyone have advice for those who feel they are being left behind? Because while now I am sort of hanging out here alone, all it will take is a requirement to breed anything with an Emerald Dragon to get the next new hybrids, and I will plummet back to the Have Nots overnight. My income is not guaranteed as that of the Emerald Dragon, because I can't breed my Air Force which takes up habitat space which will become more difficult to come by as we get a larger number of animals.

It probably goes without saying, since I've said it before, but yes, I have been worried about the widening of the income gap since the day they put up the Emerald blocker. As those with a gemstone army get those critters to level 15, the rest of us, even if we can expand to 31 large habitats and keep replacing a common/rare with a super once or twice a week... and start getting all ours to level 15 too, albiet much more slowly, the gap just keeps getting wider and wider. I just do not think it is possible for ANYONE, short of spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars, to EVER come close to the elite in the long run... the elite that the game made by making unicorns and emeralds very easy, then exceptionally difficult to get. The ONLY way this can change is if they a) make new animals with income in a tier that currently only the ultra rares make, and make them as easy for anyone to get as it was for the early lucky ones to get those multiple unicorns and emeralds [not gonna happen - the sphinx seems more difficult to get than any other super rare, and while better income than any other non-ultra, it only makes 35% the income of a unicorn, at level 15]; b) they make the unicorn and emerald easier to get again [not gonna happen]; or c) they seriously nerf the income from the ultra rares. The way they nerfed the income on ALL animals when they changed the level cap from 10 to 15. If none of those things happens, it's like, "why bother trying when you know you will never rise to the top of the FFS ladder without spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars, simply because you were not lucky early on?"

[redfoxytail]

Lee,

By no means are you a beginner or an under achiever. Despite having some ultra rares, when I visited your island I was super jealous of your Pegasus Airforce and Sphinx, which for the life of me I couldn't breed. (My latest attempt got me the much hated ferret lol).

I started playing this game when most people were already level 20+. I spent hrs on strategy, calculating habitat efficiency and creature earning rates. I fed my creatures to a good food to earning ratio, focused on increasing habitats then upgrading them for higher capacity ones.

You can either chose to focus your time on the haves vs have nots debate or you can see that your island is already doing exceptionally well and focus on being king of a number of areas: earning capacity, unique animals, expansion, higher evolutions, best island layout etc.

E.g. I've been focusing on increasing earning rates & upgrading habitat capacity. Now I'm shifting focus to get more unique animals.

Final thing, your Storm Sphinx is the highest earning super rare creature in the game at 1/3 the earning capability of a Uni/emerald and probably costs a lot less in food.

You are in a great position.

[kooky panda]

Hey guys, please keep your posts and comments on the topic of the Storm Sphynx. There are other threads where you can discuss the emerald dragon and other breeding topics.

Thanks!

[Crr008]

I'm still kind of new to the TL breeding thing so be patient with me... I'm confused. Crossing Eagle Beagle with another Eagle Beagle does not result in an Eagle Beagle? How is the Storm Sphinx derived from that?

[zenobia42]

I'm still kind of new to the TL breeding thing so be patient with me... I'm confused. Crossing Eagle Beagle with another Eagle Beagle does not result in an Eagle Beagle? How is the Storm Sphinx derived from that?

The way breeding in FFS works is this: it is like a melting pot. If you put in any 2-4 elements, it picks any 2 of them (no matter which animal they came from) and produces an animal with those 2 elements. That animal may be ANY animal with those two elements, though odds are very good it will be a common, and the odds are very low it will be a super rare. And if there are 4 elements in there, there is a teeny weeenie tiny chance you will get a unicorn.

ETA: Hope my attempt as actually being concise for once was understandable.

[Crr008]

Thanks, Zenobia. So breeding 2 Eagle Beagles could be any of those three Electric-Nature Combos; most likely the Thunderhawk but a small chance of Storm. Got it.

So far no luck on this super rare beauty. I'll take a short break from my long fail times and work on some others I don't have.

[Splashy81]

Woohoo for my first try of getting 21hrs in the den now, breeding using daredevil and planther.

I tried this combo with my L/15 Daredevil & L/10 Planther & got an Ox, not too bad! Thanks for the tip!

[zenobia42]

I tried this combo with my L/15 Daredevil & L/10 Planther & got an Ox, not too bad! Thanks for the tip!

Ooh, I'd love an ox - good for you!

[Zummat]

Got this one just staying with basics - Lightning Leopard/Pandaffodil. I got Storm Sphinx this way. No luck on Eagle Beagle so far.

Good luck everyone!

[cquinn32]

Can't believe I bred turtisle/fire glider trying for unicorn and got another 21hr timer!! How lucky is that... I'll take it!!