We are now a Mighty Lair!  I upgraded to a 50 slot lair just a couple days ago... and I already wish I could do it again! x__x  Oh well, I will just have to keep setting goals and working toward them.  Let me look back at the goal list I made a couple weeks ago...

• Expand Lair to 50 (DONE)
• Buy a 4th Nest  (DONE)
• Get more Non-Starters... hopefully Neon Wing stock (Done, but not DONE)
• Get more Neon Wing stock... hopefully with Advanced Genes... ie: Shimmer (Done, but not DONE)
• Get some Breed Change Scrolls for my Progens & their Mates! 
• Get some Gene Scrolls for my Progens & their Mates!
• Do something about Delilah... Scatterscroll?  New Mate?  Both?

Ok, some very good progress made.  No I haven't gotten Breed change scrolls for anyone yet... I feel that my purchases during last weeks Dominance were more helpful than buying only a single breed change.  And the gene scrolls I bought for Delilah & Samson, turned out to not be what I wanted.  So I sold the two Freckle genes for gems & pooled my other gems enough to buy Iridescent for Haiiro, the other half of my PC breeding pair.... Midori was born with Iri and given Seraph, so they are a set breeding pair.  Nice to have at least one pair that doesn't need major changes...

I have since acquired a few more Spirals, some with Shimmer wings and all in colors that will make nice Neon Wing babies.  Once they are no longer babies themselves I will post them on the Breeders Pages. For someone who doesn't exactly love the color pink... I seem to have gotten a lot of it in my lair.  I am going to renew my search and quest for dragons with Green colors... at least in Secondary.  

So last week Nature Flight won Dominance!  If it hadn't been for that I would have expanded the lair again... but instead I spent the 250K Treasure I had saved up on a few things from the Marketplace!  And another impulse buy of a Ridgeback breeding pair.  I couldn't resist his colors or genes... so I bought him... then I had to find him a mate...

Anyway... Im broke again.  But a new opportunity has presented itself!  Graphics!  A few people have noticed my Siggy Banner and asked for me to make them one.  Then one of them pointed me to a larger request for some Breeding Composite shots, these show the breeding pair together with a nest and their color predict chart... in a pleasing nice looking layout.  Ive done 2 of these so far and as the rest of their dragons reach breeding age I will do more.  So I have added a Graphics page here so people can see some of the work I have done... and maybe hire me to do some for them!

So now its back to saving for that Lair Expansion.  That is now my priority for the next couple of weeks.  It also seems that since we won Dominance we are taking a break from trying for it again too soon...  makes sense because Im sure a LOT of Nature Flight used up precious savings last week.  So I will probably be revamping my breeding schedule and might ev

So if you are following this ramble... my last update mentioned my wish to unlock a 4th nest.  This has been done!   I will have to do some serious saving and considering before unlocking any more.   Im sure I don't need to right now... but possibly in the future if I really do some lair expanding and get into nest rentals and stuff...

Not a huge update... content wise, but a big step for the Sanctuary!

So its been a while since I posted any updates here in my Journal.  Most of the time spent has gone to grinding the coliseum, shuffling breeding pairs, expanding my lair and trying to acquire non-starter & gened Dragons.

It has finally happened!  I got my first non-starter dragon 2 days ago.  A Spiral!  He was a good deal on the AH and on a whim I bought him... and he is double gened too!!!   Then I won a raffle and got a pretty little double gened Pearlcatcher girl.  Luckily their colors are compatible enough so they will be a breeding pair... when they both grow up.  He is one day older than her so I get to wait 18 more days before they can breed.  I think since I got her from a raffle I might donate one of their first clutch as a raffle prize... maybe to the dominance raffle or set up one of my own for newbies or something.   Must think on it... of course it depends on the size of their nest too.  I need to recover some of the cost of buying him...  Oh and did I mention that these two have the potential to produce Neon Wings!?!  Their color range can produce both Brights & Darks... and she has Shimmer so there could be ADVANCED Neon Wings from them too!!!  He qualifies as a Dark or Regular Neon Wing with his Shadow Tiger/Charcoal Eyespots/ Maize colors... She just misses being an Advance Bright herself with her Maize Tiger/Slate Shimmer/Aqua colors.  Wanna see them... ok...

As for expanding my lair, its at a capacity of 45 dragons right now.  Ill have to do some big-time saving to get the next expansion... plus I really want a 4th nest too.  So that would be 300K treasure just for those to get done... I don't even have 100K right now... too much splurging lol. 

I have 2 breeding pairs of single gened starters and I have 1 breeding pair of double gened starters.  The rest are my Progens, their mates, Neon Wing breeders... and my exalt breeders!  Right now 24 dragons in my lair are permanent or semi-permanent... Exalt breeders have a tendency to come & go after a few clutches... That leaves 21 active slots to hold exalts and hatchlings.  Once my lair is at 50 I think 26 spare slots should be enough to process a decent number of exalts and hatchlings... maybe.... for a while.... :D

After the last few attempts our flight has made at Dominance I'm changing my selling policy concerning my hatchlings...   No hatchling from my lair will be sold on the AH for less than 10K ... EVER!!!   If it doesn't sell, it can stay in my lair to be leveled and exalted to the Gladekeeper.  I will not price my hatchlings for purposeful exalt prices, just to assist another flight in reaching dominance.  If I choose to sell a dragon to another flight as a show of good inter-flight relations that's another matter, but my dragons will not go on the AH for low prices.  If someone wants to spend 10K just to exalt then I'm not out anything since I don't exalt any dragon at less than Level 6 if not higher (except during my own flights exalt week...I have been known to exalt my own underage hatchlings on a last minute Saturday push) Just putting it in writing... So its known and not a surprise to anyone when I decline to lower my hatchling prices.  

So... new goals for the next month or three:

• Expand Lair to 50
• Buy a 4th Nest  (DONE)
  
• Get more Non-Starters... hopefully Neon Wing stock
• Get more Neon Wing stock... hopefully with Advanced Genes... ie: Shimmer
• Get some Breed Change Scrolls for my Progens & their Mates! 
• Get some Gene Scrolls for my Progens & their Mates!
• Do something about Delilah... Scatterscroll?  New Mate?  Both?

I will try to keep updates more often.  Thanks for reading and comments are always welcome!