#New Elder System
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you can ask him
"why cant bio elder"
you ping him
Nope im at 6.2% ASD after Eldering and theres beenno difference so far. tried 2 ticks so far with moon out
no im not XD
cus bio is cosmetic dragon and tier 1-2
who dares to ping jao
i would only if i have a juicy fat question that is worth it
wont do that to ask "is it survive 1 moo- no."
now i just wasted a jao ping
'pls rhino, god of all dragons, we honor you and would love another hint, we've grinded for hours and even days now.. please jao tell us atleast the first letter of the words in the 3rd step, we would appreciate that, thank you mr. rhino and have a wonderfull day our hero!'
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he be like A
nah i'd ask for real the whole word bro lmao
not for disrespect... but IM DONW WITH THIS BRO
i mean bro asking for the word is also not good
we now know the number of # matches letters
so we ask for a hint to the step its self, so we can guess both words
then whatd you ask him
'pls rhino, god of all dragons, we honor you and would love another hint, we've grinded for hours and even days now.. please jao tell us atleast tell us any hint regarding the 3rd step, we would appreciate that, thank you mr. rhino and have a wonderfull day our hero!'
imagine rhino wouldve read this randomly and started typing
possible cave entrance soon
How do you obtain such wonky stats on aline
im exploring with this ss
cuz its fr 1st gen on A stats
But. Rerolling-?
also rushed out didnt reroll for spowned good stats
Ah
its a fighter i just wanted the blood line lol
this guy is actually decent
im going sanctuary then C_C
Istg didnt someone say that jao confirmed it WASNT a map thing and a mechanic of its complete own
bro hear me out
its something done at a spot and effects all people around
its something that isnt actually - WAIT
what the
Idk
what does that mean
Only you can see it
whats client sided
who's spreading misinformaion
ah alr ty
so only ppl who were elder before can see it?
Its non campable stop thinking its a map thang
@stray notch I believe this is where you were
Prob
ah that place
okay so there is stuff that happens to the server that it does and it approves it there, there is stuff u ur self do it in ur pc
he was there
And this is the other half moonish spot
idk an example but take flight takeoff Dsynce, the server tryna match u so it just Dsynces
wait so
but eldering was confirmed to be client sided so u and u alone would ever notice it
we got 2 halfmoons?
what if travel those distances
When was it confirmed to be client
its for example dying/spowning/calling
vc?
I have been to these spots with Elder ASD and step 2 ASD
yes, look up right that ledge is my sus spot
Yall are COMPLETELY avoiding common sense
It is not campable
Therefore ESPECIALLY IN RIVER
ya aint finding it
but kiu
i had a theory that i personally almost fully believe it unless its proven wrong
it about how crater/ravine are high risk high reward and ppl would love to be there and risk going there (maybe changed to others spots that might be these two)
i don't know if a location can be considered campable or not I mean yes but what if you are able to sprint in and sprint out after doing something?
Its about trial and error
High risk=AI Such as sandslayers and irongrazers and or prob portals
which is, whatever you do to elder, its for example gonna give u 1% tick, when u do it at the spot it becomes higher lets say 5%
i dont think a large location is campable
In pvp it would be campable actually
It only takes ONE bio or ONE cloaked ss to scout through and bam
eeeeh true if you can keep people from running in and running out
Especially asd
Asd Cant run through ravine
in pvp it would be easily campable, even if its a whole biome lets say, for example if its only river, the whole ravine of river can be camped
YES.
So again, draws out locations š¤¦āāļø
800hours on pvp aint going in da void guys
bro who's replying with emojis the whole time they tryna make fun of us lmao
Veosk.
stop drinking pls
Heās probably trying to derail u guys
what?
we are only speculating it won't matter when they change it
he is gatekeeping elder system giving us wrong theories and advises
i just disagree with you thinking large locations are campable
Lol
havent even reacted to tamim
what bro
not really
Have you not played major pvp?
how are they campable
how often do u play PVP servers?
i ran into so many "clan run areas"
Bruh.
Ss and bio
Both can NEVER lose their target unless killed
Or its another ss
It takes ONE cloaked ss or ONE bio on guard
doesnt mean theyre campable, its just harder to actually get there, rhino wants it to be endgamelike
And its campable.
meh they are over rated when trying to chase asd's at the very least
Which proves your point wrong. Ravine is NOT endgame
you misunderstood me
i wonder if jao is on
Its quote āsomethiing dragonyā
Dew it
Ive been telling u guys that
Did he not recently say its actually partially campable? I think Rusty said that couple days ago
But veosk aint listening
wdym i aint listening? you aint listening
at this point there is no point in worrying about it so who cares?
Doesnt only HE knows about the system?
jao isn't going to tell us?
Its NON CAMPABLE
Stop saying it is
Probably not
and it is changing from whatever it is currently
Thats what Rusty was saying Jao said.
i argue a yes and no on location being campable yes because someone could try and kill you on pvp to prevent someone eldering
He was probably trying to again, offrail ppl as a joke
it is the clue
but no because they can't deny you if you are determined
Lore.
Where Jao said that im not sure could have been Patreon or other channel
its lore
i never said it is??
Youre acting like it
||im tryna make them confused stop||
actually i am the confused
you just said it bro
its dragony thats the elder system
what if u gotta gather up the gang yk
the council of elders
So getting kicked is dragony.
and do a meeting under the moon light
lmao
Its not a time based thing
MAYBE
We remember but he also mentione the MOON in the most recent clue
i said so many times its non campable and not a timebased thing and others keep saying it aswell
Dragony, in my take id guesss survive x days ir something
Yeah 1-2 months
Lol.
im joking
Its dod
I will make a dedicated front-facing frostfel emoji to this.
On the other chaotic hand, yall are goin nowhere tbh
ok gl fitting it in the #
The eldering system is gonna be changed.
Theres rlly no way yall gonna get it within a month
Oh ye of little faith
i can agree, i seem to be lost in the fog
Mate. Its been a hot second.
You think a entire community woulda found it by now
And if we DO get it
Id say a bit more than an FN second lol
It seems HEAVILY hard so maybe a change to be more active is good
Rather than a whole egg-hunt just to upstat and be āstrongerā
Well good news for me is i'll have an Elder SS by the end of the week. Currenty at 88.8%
nice, congrats
we wont get a hint without asking rhino
Another month i guess for FS an IR
is asking jao for a hint considered a random ping?
i think jao got pinged once or twice for hints and no mod said anything and rhino responded
im sorry but its so funny how we are grinding for MONTHS like idiots for passive elder ticks thats not healthy
Goodnight folks. Will continue search for maybe an hour tomorrow when log in for ticks
im probably gonna ask him man
Probably not wise to do
why is that
No..
Mods do intervene
Itās considered a random ping if its a hint
Well from what i hear this place can get quite ban happy lol
Thats like asking āwhens (dragon) comingā when its already being decided
Im what remains :D
but it also helped us A LOT ngl
ight then veosk does it š¤·āāļø
never said i wanna do it
How about we stop trying to figure it out so us pvpers can get a more active system š„
Cuz if we find it
anyhoo i'm off to bed early start in gale of wind tomorrow. Happy days. Night folks
And if its EXTREMELY LONG like it is now
Noones gonna have fun! And theyre gonna blame the bad eldering on jao when its rlly our faulttt~
nah man i enjoy fighting yes but we lost the feel of the game
i personally, tho im a pvp nerd
i just feel this doesnt fit the game
The eldering system fits its just too long and complex
As most pvpers are just people who follows people with common sense.
having a clan and fight bla bla bla... wouldnt be cool unlees u have a species per clan like a clan of IR/FS, clan of blitz SS
i know this wont happen, so i wannna take a break of this chaos and act more dragony
im worried its MUSHROOMS AGAIN
no i mean
In 2.0? Sure as a extra prob
if they change it again
i hope it doesnt get changed to that
Its 100% NOT
mushrooms would actually be good if they have random spawn places
bro u play on PVE server and yalls most aggressive fight is who gets the timer right and holds E the fastest on the mushroom
i dont wanna trash talk PVE servers more cuz i cant stop
well if we dont know where the mushrooms spawn we cant camp
what. did. you. do.
But we should just lay off eldering
bro is it that crazy
And unfun
the 3rd step has smth to do with the moon but can be done at anytime
think, guys, think
has anyone tried flying as high into the sky as possible as the third step? I figure someone has, but I've gotta ask.
didn't think that far
it k
I just dont get why we need to do the other 2 steps to elder if the first step is to just elder?..
to unlock active method
the first step is just passive a tick every 12 hrs
once you do that you can if you know how do it much faster then say in 20ish days as a asd who is the fastest atm to elder passively
So step 2 is essentially lose/kill that which you've become?
Just gonna say, after reading this a few times and thinking it over, hereās my theory:
- Become that which you seek.
- Kill/lose that which youāve become.
- Under the moon youāll find yourself again.
Perhaps the ghost of your past life shows up under moonlight? š¤·
I have been to the spot my elder ASD died and ate the corpse with new ASD. Happened to spawn in same area. And I've been to same spot during night as I thought the same thing. Nothing to be seen.
Iām referring to whether the spirit wanders and isnāt around the place of death
Yeah I'm still keeping an eye out as I wonder the map for any ghostly figures lol
Don't think they're that indepth
Have you tried growing to adult with out logging like we had to for mela after sacrificing an elder?
Ok, but what if point 3 wasnāt find, but grow. So adult would get another set of passive growth but faster at night. Like growing from juvie to adult?
I dont think step two is to kill your elder . The whole procces from my POV (3 steps) are supossed to be completed by an elder . So if you kill your elder at step two you have no elder to complete step 3 ?
Well Jao didnāt reply with that itās wrong but with āWhat did you do afterwards?ā not gonna to scroll up until i find it
So something which could be interpreted as such
Not wanna to decline your idea but dunno xD
I did exactly that with new ASD
I'm with you, but also don't want to discount that it's possible. I honestly think if we truly wanted to figure this out we should have two groups, folks that off their elders and try stuff then a group that keeps their elder and tries stuff on the off chance step 2 is not kill your elder. The problem is, if folks are wrong about step 2 and they kill off their elders, they have to start back at step 1 but you wouldn't even know because all of this is invisible in game with no messaging!! šµāš« agony
Hmmm what about "seek what you've become" ie find another elder?
But it's meant to be solo-able right? I'm a little out of the loop so I've seen Jao wants it to be social, but also that
its soloable also that was the very 1st theory
and its wrong
Yeah it's a bit confusing for sure. When I first saw it that's what I had thought since it's in line word for word with a previous clue. But I believe Veosk is correct, that had been a clue related to step 1 which has already been revealed š
yes
i mean it makes sense and it fits in the blanks
also jao kinda lowkey confirmed it
guys- hear me out
What we lookin at here. Its No Elder anyway. Not legit at least. Version hasnt been out long enough to Elder FS and IR.
well, i am 100%
u gotta deal with what ya got
can you show your whole genetics?
not anymore i reached adult XDDDD
that was a wierd juvi tick to 100%
not 0.0% adult
What could those #### be...š¤
Actually on a server with 2x speed and we have an elder IR. Spawn stats so it took them the entire time to get it. They exist just very annoying to wait that long
And elder Flame stalker
So they do technically exist
It just took them a month to get there really.. if I calculated it correctly
Even with 2x speed growth
When i said legit i meant official servers. As far as i know This Elder system we are trying to figure out is only on official servers. Someone do correct me if i'm wrong.
if it was officals only then that would be messed up to do. it should be available on any server
otherwise people on my server would have been doing all of this testing for nothing
Sorry but i think that is the case. Something about how Jao considered it cheating
no because there's a mechanic in that stops admin grows from skipping the progress
legit it must be grown natrually or else you'll never unlock the steps after passive elder growing
soooo yeah nah, it shouldnt be on officals only.. because there's methods in place for admin growths to affect the progress to stop people from gaining elder faster
I think thats actually it. Jao considered 2x speed servers as cheating for faster Elders. But will have to wait if anyone else can confirm this.
unless jao says himself otherwise its officals only.. then i honestly cannot trust your words
Its just somethiung i readhereat some point
i've seen nothing from him saying publicly 2x and 3x are cheating methods to elder.. so unless he says so himself then i'll continue to do my testing
all i know is we cannot admin grow ourselves to quickly reach elder. that's all.
Brainstorming ideas for step 2 is still helpful just to be clear š
At the time Jao had been referring to admin grows as cheating and not counting for step 1. He never confirmed nor denied growth boosted servers
its 3rd
bro that makes no sense and so unfair
Yeah there is no shot you can only active elder on officials
This method is for all servers, not just officials.
āBecome that which you seekā
āSeek that which youāve becomeā
āsomething the moon youāll feel yourself againā
''become that which you seek''
''lose/kill that which you've become''
''after/under one/the moon you'll find yourself again''
everyone who is elder and below a bld should kill their elders
or renest to a higher bld
bro its just 3 legit steps
nothing regarding bld
i know i just know some of the elders won't do it cause bld cause they chicken
i am only worrying about bld once I know how to elder active so honestly till I get my comp back on pause at a 25 asd
still in the repair shop but atleast they know what is wrong
we got to think chat think what is the 3rd step
Yeah dont think its fair either. Its honestly something i read from someone on this channel around when first joined the channel.
Will be logging in shortly and ATTEMPT to stay logged in for a full ingame day. See if that makes a differenc. He did say like SWG rewarded for playing. If i remember right there were skills that leveled by time. Similarto EVE Online but had to be logged in.
Oh just incase anyones interested this the map ive been using. as far as i can tell its the most accurate ive seen and with coords. https://www.worldanvil.com/w/day-of-dragons-semi-realism-xnocturnalis/map/abb7c431-4b64-4a58-b02d-bae79e3d72b7
pretty sure this is the most accurate map
Aye could be. But think i prefer one with coords lol
My puny brain requires numbers
But yeah that map certainly looks more accurate for landmark placement compared to the one im using. Coords are correct also.
Thats me done for the day and possibly just done. Just gonna carry on with 12 hour passive ticks. Been running around the map non stop except for food and water and the odd rest from fall damage since about 7:30 this morning. NOTHING has happened. Unless theres a bonus of sorts on next tick. we shall see later tonight.
Hey you little stinkers. I've not been in here for a while- how's it going?
we know the first 2 steps but still trynna figure out the 3rd
Well we have a strong suspicion that the 2nd step is "kill your elder", but there's no confirmation on that yet, at least 2 ppl have done it and have found nothing with the new dragon. š
it MOST LIKELY is ''lose/kill that which you've become'' for the 2nd step
These are the latest hints š
It's changing soon anyways so I'm not really that interested in the current method any longer š
wont it change with 1.0.1?
so in around 1-3months
we still got time
Kind of a little salty that the whole thing in the dev news was referred to as players "not liking" something difficult vs us not enjoying passively aging dragons for months (especially when we were told it would be an active eldering method) bc it didn't encourage or reward interactive gameplay (ie person that can log on for 2 minutes twice a day for a total of barely half an hour of "play" a week has an advantage over someone playing for 6-10 hours on a weekend), and on top of that being given no real hints until he already pretty much decided he was changing it š¤£
Rubs me the wrong way lmao
It really is just a slap in the face for those who have been actively searching only to find out itās passive.
And passive in a really odd way too š© cos again, someone can log on twice a day and not do anything yet still come out ahead of people who are actually active for hours at a time
in a sense
theyre on even ground
no matter the time spent they elder at the same pace
Nah, currently you can get 1 tick every 12 hours but you have to be online as they don't accrue
Person 1 plays 5 hours on Saturday and 4 hours on Sunday - Depending on when they log on, they may get 4 ticks.
9 hours total. 4 ticks.
Person 2 logs in at 8am and 8pm every day for 2-3 minutes, Mon-Sun. They get 42 ticks.
42 minutes. 14 ticks.
See the problem? š
well
it takes nothing to log out to get the tick if you play more than 12 hours
same as it takes nothing to log in for your tic
if both have a timer set up
I mean, sure. If that's feasible for your schedule. And if that is then I guess congrats?
they both can get all tics
a person not playing all the time to log in and just get tics may also have a busy shcedule and only get one a day
Unless they have a job in the medical field and are out of the house 16 hours a day šļøššļø
or more lmao
All I'm saying is, it's very backwards that someone can do absolutely nothing in the game yet still come out ahead
more fair than shrooming where its heavly unbalanced imo
here all it takes is good scheduling
i do get that its a lil dumb
If I was into PvP it would also definitely actually encourage me to play less, because if I could level up without putting a dragon that's close to eldering at risk, why wouldn't I?
i have alts so its not a concern
and in pvp not playing means not getting stats up means getting a whole clan behind if nobody plays kinda
im lucky enough that i have people that loves nesting im my clan so thats not a big concern
but i can see how it sucks in general
we all hate it lol
not everyone has alts and all
and between you and me
i loved shrooming cx
yeah it's a crappy mechanism š© It'd be way better imo if it just worked like regular aging with cumulative hours via play, cos at least then you have to be engaging with the game
I'd still just prefer a neat quest system tho but I doubt the game will include something that neat by the time the next update comes
yeah that would be nice i agree but its probs going to take a while cx
Oh well. Best we can hope for is that whatever's done is an improvement and actually active beyond more than just... existing š¤£
I agree, but also disagree. Cumulative hours with regular play would really impact players with limited hours from job or schooling. They'd lose playerbase when those people fall behind in a system like that.
A questing system would have been awesome, but I think that it is really far out.
that's the one problem beast of bermuda is having
Im a operations manager and Iām out for hours and I was the first elder asd š
Marsin had you beat actually š¤£
Love that for you lol doesn't mean others can make it work as easily š
And like, I'm glad that the setup worked for you. I still think it was a very questionable decision because it enables people to elder while putting in extremely little effort as long as their schedule allows, but like I've been saying and like Toodles reiterated: Plenty of people just can't.
yall just complaining. Its gonna get locked.
hushhh⦠let him change the systemmā¦
Yall want this overly complex system or a more active one??
Folks can still brainstorm if they want, the update could still be several weeks out. Don't take my fun lol
If yall accidentally unlock it and he keeps this current one, weāre all gonna be livid
Obvs there is not going to be a system that's convenient for everybody, that's just plain impossible. Something that's great for one person won't be great for someone else. But I still think it's silly that someone playing for half an hour a week doing nothing but logging on can have an advantage š
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I don't think they would do that š¤
Do wt? Login ticks?
Don't get me wrong, I want and welcome the change, but I also like having something to do. Otherwise I wouldn't be playing š®āšØ
Its not an advantage if theyre clanless.. (pvp wise)
pvp?
Huh? No I'm talking about the eldering system š¤£
There's more to life than PvP anyhow
He's already said it's changing lmao
#development-news this is the whole reason I started my word vomit lol
I read that wrong at first. If I find out I'm definitely sharing 𤣠there are too many people that would want to know, I can't do them dirty like that
So many people have dumped time/effort into it, it's the least I could do if I did š
yeah it'd be pretty gross to gatekeep core game mechanics šļøššļø
Well itd be good if they kept the current method in the game but also add the new method, so that we have 2 ways to actively elder and itd be cool if server owners get to choose which one they want in their server settings
Mm, honestly I wouldn't mind both an active and a passive method
Right now though the current method isn't active as far as anyone can tell and completely hinges on passively eldering š Maybe the second/third steps of this system are more interesting, but them being timelocked behind first needing to elder completely passively via ticks makes this system very uninteresting to me
tbh there will always be the passive ticks you get from the 12-24 hr log in ticks i bet
Yea i didn't mean the passive ticks, i was talking about the active method we have to unlock and the new eldering system coming in 1.0.1
I was NOT talking about the passive ticks
I can't pass judgement on whether or not it should be kept when I don't even know what it is š
That's true lol
I just wanna know the whole 3 step process and WHAT it unlocks. Cuz if it unlocks a better eldering method for all dragon species per server, I think it's worth it, even with the passive elder tick claiming. I seriously do not mind the first step being getting passive ticks for playing the game (even if atm I don't play much due to upstating being a bit TOO challenging, and no Fantasy servers yet). I don't mind it because if I only have to do it once per server, it's no big deal, since elders after that can use the 'unlocked' method.
Also a way for the game ot tell us we are on the right direction would just be very good in general, so we KNOW when we did something right.
we just dont know enough about the elder system to fully being able to judge it, BUT the few part we know (passive eldering) just sucks and no it does not encourage or reward active players since you definetly dont wanna risk the progress you made in a time span of months. So the only "gameplay" this part of the system encourages is log in and log out again and buying more accounts so you have accounts ta actualy play on and others only for eldering and this can hardly be fun for anyone playing.
Which is why i realy dont like how it is worded to make it look like we dont a system that rewards players who invest much time into the game to gain elders, because that is not at all what any here was saying from what i have read so far, but the system that is now in with PASSIVE eldering is not ACTIVE (kinda funny how even in the words on its own you can see that they are the absolute opposite) gameplay which we want in order to gain an elder dragon.
I would agree so long as the method ended up being one dragon unlocks it for all of them on the server š I could be content with having to passive elder an asd first but not for each dragon
I honestly dont think it will be a one time thing since he realy wants the elders to be rare and by make it an unlock once they are rare in the beginning and then not anymore
It wouldn't make sense for it to be much else though. We unlock SOMETHING after the 3 steps...so if it's not some sort of grindable way to elder like the mushrooms were in legacy, then it better dang well be something just as good or better. It's just I don't know what else there IS to unlock.
The elder mushroom method was actually good, it just had flaws that were never corrected. But it could for sure be fixed ot be a TON better and make it near close to un-campable.
I still worry that we have been lied to and there is no way this whole time to unlock a active way
i hope I am wrong mind you
Keep those worries away because Jao said it unlocks something. He wouldn't lie about that
He's not that sort of person.
i am mostly bitter about not being open with how to do something that is a mechanic of the game
Well let's be fair here. We knew we could elder via passives form the beginning, so it wasn't like eldering was locked behind anything.
passive eldering not fun either way
And regardless, we don't even know what the 3 steps unlock. It SHOULD be a better way to elder, but for all we know it isn't even elder related at all, thus not hiding any vital mechanic
i am pretty sure it is tied to eldering
No it's not, but at least it did it's intended job of making elders harder to get while it being solo-able and non-campable.
and really sucky
I hope what we unlock is a better eldering method yeah. Though I feel ike if it is, we should just have this eldering method straight away without an unlock method.
i'd be fine with whatever this method was if we even knew what the method was
Putting it behind a 3 step method means casual players are more likely to fall behind.
I play PVE so go figure a lot of these issues are because they need ot balance it for PVP, because elders in that are massively good I hear.
Which I get. And it should be balanced. But I think what Jao said in the announcements is needed. If you make it 'easy' or faster to elder, then it gives a lot more equal a chance for ALL types of players.
also true
casual players will always fall behind the players who have more time to dedicate to a grind, the only want to make something like elder "equal" for everyone is that it just unlocks at the same rate of growth as though growing from juvie to adult.
Yeah. Hence why I was like 'oh gosh I hope they never add Ancient as a player growth. We do NOT need that'
The problem is the game as it is rn is so full of bugs that if yo see something beeing different you cant say for sure if its wanted bc its for example conected to the new eldering or just a new bug again and this together with not even giveing hints until this late and only now were its already planned to be done different anyways doesnt help the frustration at all
and if we'd never had elder from the shrooms before (passive only) literally no one would be so pressed about it
At this point I'm just gonna wait till 1.0.1. I can't even passive elder another dragon anyway, the next update will most likely be here before I finish XD
i'm not even concerned with eldering right now, we have growth off on our server to focus on upstatting. we need elders for nests too much to do it with growth on
Which is okay. I suppose I don't NEED to know the current method entirely, but I DO wish we did, just to pass full judgement on it and give suggestions oh how it could be improved. But I suppose Jao already has an idea of what to do for the revamp anyway.
My clan isn't bothering with upstating too much yet (very casual about it atm). We want a official fantasy server to call home before we go hard on anything.
And that easier upstating Jao mentioned sounds nice.
i mostly avoid officials, i prefer our private one lol
That's fine. we want official purely for the better chance it'll stick around for a long time.
We still need ot wait for Fantasy server types to be added ragardless
my only issue with easier eldering and upstatting is then there is no reason to play. once everyone gets the stats they want and on an elder, unless they're heavy into PvP they don't have much to do.
i can't wait for the fantasy option so i can check it out
But by makeing it harder to get eapecialy with upstating you only give the clanless people and smal clans a disadvantage because the big clans will get the stats some day no matter how hard it is made and smaler clans then will not have a chance to get then even in the point of them haveing not enough accounts to upstat
In pvp
So while i do agree with the make elders not so easy to get i think it would be best to make it easier to upstat to a flat A and then it will still be hard to progress since so need elders to get any better then a which will be hard to get so same for the A+ stats
i don't want an easy game....i know a lot of people do tho. but the challenges Jao added with upstatting and eldering actually peaked my interest a lot. yea sure, eldering fast and getting all A's is cool, i guess. but then if there's no work to it what did i really achieve? nothing. same thing as everyone else.
poorly
people are ansty about the fact they are changing the method to elder or just now adding it people are abit divided on this
we aint gonna figure it out ourselves
yea very most likely is
So far killing my Elder has just felt like a heartbreaking waste of time. Not killing anymore until I know what to do. I may consider killing SS which will Elder in A few days.
Just because having a step 2 dragon that can fly will make searching much easier, but if it DOES turn out that passive is the only way? I am not gonna be happy.
At this point I am unsure if it is worth it thanks to them changing it
Tbh if they planned on changing it all soon anyway i dont understand why they did this whole big secret thing anyway
Jao said the elder method would be changed if nobody guesses the current method correctly
which was exactly what happened
What if you died on your elder you go back to it on a different body and eat the corpse. But that wouldn't make sense with the moon very much.
Dragon* not body
I did that
Like instead of asd elder kill that off and go in an adult fs
Ih
Oh
Have you tried turning the elder system off and on?
Me right now
Yes. When I ate its liver with some fava beans and nice qianti
imo if an entire server full of people can't figure it out, it's not us. it's bad design.
I feel like since the elder system is already being changed again, then we should get the rest of the steps instead of going "####" stuff
I've said it before and I'll say it again. This just feels like a punishment rather than Jao refreshing the method to something new.
It most certainly does feel like a punishment. If the method is indeed passive to elder for months just to kill it.
Yes but jao might never tell us, and we cant ping him for a hint because then the mods would be warning us again
Which sucks
Yeah. I don't mind the fact that it's changing. Kinda.
Just with the entire reason it's changing yk? I'm sure it's not meant as a "You didn't figure it out. Too bad I'm changing it!", and more of a, "So elders are a bit rarer, I'm going to change the method so that it gives you another chance to work it out"
Itās not changing his just adding the actual system in because we never had one lol š
Think about it he announce that is changing and yet he wonāt tell us what it is ā¦and I the end when he does change it he can just lie and make some bs up on what it was
The riddles are just a front to buy some time for the actual system . Then dude has the audacity to air quote (because itās to hard for people ā like nahhhhhhhh everyone since the update released as been trying to figure it out and nothing so itās not super hard itās just that itās only through passive means can. You reach elder
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Plus if this current method still exist like he claims why not tell us and not change it . He will get what he wants still less elders and it well be rare but once you unlock the method itās little bit easier ⦠but since there is no method he canāt tell us lol š
My concern is that we were told that we had an active system to elder just last month on the 19th, but on the 28th Jao's wording makes the current system sound like it's completely passive ("it will be an active system again instead of the current system")
directly contradicting information š why
Why not just tell us then?
Then it doesn't have to be entirely re-worked, it can still be done, it's just simply we don't know how? That's the only odd thing to me. I don't mind a grind, but why the mystery? Could save time & actively test the system before scrapping it entirely, and focus that energy on other matters
The secrecy with it confuses me. It'd be one thing if learning about eldering was like... part of gameplay, ie a story/plot that unfolds as we go along and progress, and discovering it through knowledge from NPCs was something gained along the way or pieced together from bits of lore throughout
but we're lacking anything of the sort other than "yeah there's an active method go do stuff and discover it"
but it might not even be an active method at all??
Holy
Your right
He says in active system again hints the current system is just passive
Bro lol š
Your still me I spend 4 hours of my life howling at the moon for nothing
You know the worse part is ā¦. The people that give bad reviews the people that critique. The game actually care more about the game then sheep š that just mindlessly take everything he says with joy .. thatās the sad part I love this game the idea of it and everything else with it but man the confidence sometimes makes me wonder ..if they just kept it a buck with us like it would be fine like it sucks to wait on stuff but I rather be told listen this how it is then lie too
If you guys donāt see me on this chat probably means I got kicked so GG lol š
I'm also kinda confused with him saying that it's supposed to be "like SWG" currently and that it'll change TO an active method, but uh
a quick google search is all I needed in order to learn about how active the SWG method is 𤣠There's some parts where you're stuck waiting around but the vast majority is actively visiting locations and doing quests, which DoD lacks
https://www.swginfinity.com/guides/jedi-unlock/
The game also kinda failed miserably lol taking a page out of the book of a failed game isn't a great idea imo lol
big doggie >:D
I think I'm going to hold off on killing my future elders for now, the recent information has been kinda contradicting/confusing and I don't want to throw out my ASD if the system is based on waiting around. Maybe after the system gets changed into something that is for SURE active, I'll be more willing tho š
Ok folks my SS will be Elder about this time tomorrow. Thoughts on if i should kill it for a step 2 flier for searching or let it live until people come back online for nesting?
Donāt lol š kill it I learn the hard way
My vote is for nesting
Donāt
Think about this all front
Only way to elder is passive
I been doing everything I can after losing my asd and iv just wasted countless time
And still only think Iām getting is ticks
Save your elder so when the server populates
Yeah i'm leaning that way too. Seeing as an Elder is needed for best stats. But does the Elder need good stats to? Like B or A stats to get A++. Does anyone know?
I think thats what it is to to be fair
My ASD ended up having 2E recessive genes, but it does have A BL, I'd be willing to test to see what the eggs turn out like as soon as I hit elder
In legacy they made to were the only way to get + or ++ was to have in elder
But since you get your 4th point at 25 maybe you just need dom to do it
I put all my EP onto Speed and Survival
On ss?
Wasnt thinking of nesting at the time
That's what my guess would be tbh. Could be a neat experiment to have a pair of full elders and a pair of similar 25% elders and see if there's a difference, but that'd be rough getting comparable stats across both pairs
Iām not to bigg on nesting but Iām pretty sure 2 doms is a guaranteed grade upstate so E turns into D and so far and stuff but your guaranteed in upgrade on the letter
Yeah same. From what ive read though i dont think it matters much. 2 E's will get a D, 2 D's will get a C and so on until A A+
The dominance thing really seems to more about Skins
Current nesting system is all RNG, you have about 50% chance to keep current stat and 40% for the stat to become one of the recessives, about 10% to get upgrade and that is for each individual stat
So nesting in a dragon with stats worth keeping is about 1 and 6 eggs and that doesn't mean it is good just means you didn't get screwed
1-20 is about what it takes to get a good egg with 3 upgraded stats
Sheesh. Would an Elder make a difference then if its just RNG?
Well if theres anyone willing to grow a female SS on the same server to test it let me know
All dominant does is give slightly better crit and that doesnt roll over on next nests so not worth
Yeah just reading the ingame info for it just seems like a waste of points
It very much is JAO doesn't like breeders
lol why?
IDK but the current upstat system has made almost all of them quite, no joke
Thatās why his making it easier which should of done it the first place lol
I can only assume that part of the rationale between making upstatting difficult is to create a demand for the brood watcher once it's implemented
Yes which is fine when it is in the game, not before but its w/e those peeps gone and may be they will come back who knows
The problem with that would be that there's a good chance with the current speed development is going that if stat breeding hadn't been changed, broods would be obsolete by the time they were released with everyone already having killer stats š
Doesn't make it less frustrating but I can see why it was changed early
If brood watchers are going to give mutation boosts like it has been said in the past, they will never be useless.
why have a stat increase system if you are not going to let people get stats upgraded is kind of the problem though. PVE you everyone has inf time to upstat but on PVP servers, well lets just say no one has stats worthy of being legacy D bloodline yet.
100% sure JAO is laughing at us breeders that are actually trying to use his system. I am very glad he is going to improve it though even if that is only 1% better its something.
what the point of playing this game when Jao wants to lie to us and put us in wild goose chase. Like how am I suppose to even believe what Jao even says anymore its very degrading and really upseting
The intention was iirc to make it harder to clans to get good stats, but in doing so, made it wholly that only large clans can indeed, get good stats.
not true i upstated on my own with sandboxie and 6 accounts
I'll always be torn, because it's a hard balance for a small, let alone first time game developer to strike a balance between fun & challenging in a way that satisifies the majoriy, but in doing so, it wouldn't be the first time the devs have been observed lying for player engagement, which is the worst thing they could do.
I want to believe it's not a lie, but the contradictions and the history has me more than a little skeptical at this point also.
Yes, but it's still lengthy process, it's significantly quicker with multiple people who have time/accounts, your average person will likely never see a good stat unless they work repeatedly with someone or a clan, and large clans means more people, which means faster upstat times
So basically either have a massive clan, or $100+ worth of day of dragon accounts o n l y for upstatting š
massive clan? 100% worths of DoD? it only takes 6 people what do you mean?
actually, 8 is a safe bet
i've been able to get 13b asd's with only 4 accounts so 
That's still $100+ to upstat to 13b on accounts alone
Assuming said 6 people are active enough to upstat. Even after all this time, we still dont have a clue how to effectively elder a dragon, and the stats not being good enough to be worth eldering
We dont need to know cuz if we know it will be useless once 1.0.1 Drops...
Eldering^
13b is great progress, like RNG must love you. I am on like 2B with 6 accounts and a lot of extra help.
Problem with upstatting is not that it's hard, it is that it completely RNG+time based not skill. You have to spend an obscene amounts of hours almost AFK. Growing, nesting, dying and that is for 1-2 stats going up from E to D-.
Also is this on PvE or PVP?
'cause a busy pvp server is going to run the risk of losing those lines hella easy during raids
I have done it on PVP but most are on PVE that have good lines.
i mean its also the fact of playing safe when to nest... dont nest when to many people are on or theres a fight going on
Fair. We dont necessarily need to know, but I also feel like putting a half done eldering system that literally is just "passive elder to be elder" is... redundant
So now that my SS is now Elder and i'm the only one on server i thought id open a second account for nesting tests. Got Sandboxie and can open game twice no prob. Issue i'm having is the second game shows no servers the first one does. Anyone got any advice? Or has JAO done something to prevent us doing such a thing?
Oh and im running on a 3090, i9 10900k, Raid0, 96GB Ram incase anyone might think its PC issue. Also have Fastest internet available currently in my area which is 75mbps
Sandboxie works well for DoD, just need to have -QueryPort=7778 7777 in launch options for one account
Ahh ok thank you
No problemo!
Oh dear. I just noticed something. So i started growing a female earlier today before getting Sandboxie. Just logged in with Elder. Poor lassie is TINY in comparison 
Can some of you let up on the accusations of Jao lying? You have no proof that he is. Please don't spread such terrible rumors in his own discord =\ All it's doing is making the mood in this channel insanely drama-filled and gloomy when it doesn't need to be.
stuff like this makes it seem like we have been misslead at the very least
12 eggs with an Elder and the Stats were worse. Both Dragons had E's and D's, 3-5 D+'s. Eggs produced nothing but E's and a couple of D's 
@tardy perch You have a fair point. Counter point, lying or not he attacked every single end game mechanic harder than any villain in DC history and should get some push back on that.
That's not a point, that's an opinion.
which endgame mechanic did not get butchered?
Both are getting improved so it's not like he's ignoring it
sucking up to devs doesnt give you brownie points when people have doubt its going to happen
Excuse me? Sucking up? The MOOD in this channel is what's getting sucked up by things not even proven.
Stuff is getting improved. They heard you guys loud and clear. And until those can prove that he lied provide the proof, all they are doing is propagating a really terribly unnecessary mood here.
They were doing emergency patches and quick fixes to problems. Both eldering and nesting could get those to allow people to have a reason to keep playing. Instead we wait for 1.0.1 which may take anywhere from 2 weeks to 4 months, there is a reason people are upset.
we'll probably have to wait a lot longer too for the skin crafting stuff
I didn't say people couldn't be upset. I said people need ot stop trying to say things that are not proven true
Also yes they could 'hot-fix' eldering and nesting, but those two mechanics are lot more complex, especially breeding. Things take time. They always take time. Patience.
Passive eldering was from legacy so it's not like he spent extra time coding that. And without knowing the whole 3 steps and what it unlocks, it's kinda moot to judge it entirely. I wish he's tell us too, but honestly it's obvious why he doesn't. It's not like saves are getting wiped. He doesn't want elders coming out of the wood-work still.
Elders will not be coming out of the wood work anyway if passive is the first step. Theres not many people that would spend 1-2 months to Elder. As for possible proof he was lying about a current active elder mechanic? JAO's comment about making it active AGAIN is evidence enough for me. Not to mention how much time i myself have spent searching the map with an Elder and then with what i call a step 2 Elder. His hint about the moon? At this stage in development what exactly can we do with the moon right now but search at night and call sign at it which i have done so so many time in multiple locations and at different times of the night. There is nothing. I now have an Elder SS and spent a fair bit of the day today flying around everywhere and still nothing.
Jao said it's in the game entirely. I beleive him. whether you don't or not is fine. But the fact you haven't foudn naything doesn't PROVE he's lying.
The elder shroom method is what he was tlaking about. That WAS an active method.
But no one liked that one either.
So he changed it to what it was now. Which people STILL aren't liking (I don't mind it but I'm rare).
So now he's changing it AGAIN to an active method once more.
Oh i can handle the passive Elder too. Not far off having FS and IR Elder. But the fact he keeps changing his words on the steps to unlock active Eldering is bit odd. And none of it makes sense when put into practice.
He's not changed his words? What are you on about?
Become that which you seek (I get that part), Seek that which you become? Makes no sense to me that. Now we hear its something to do with the moon. From what ive read from some here he said its not campable and at some point he said its partially campable? Now where he said that i'm not sure. Possibly Patreon but i'm not subscribed.
Does anyone have the tick chart for ASD?
Oh and apparently its Supposed to similar to SWG, a game i'm VERY familiar with and i can tell you its nothing like that. Rewarded for playing is what he said. In SWG you got badges for exploring locations. Which took a hell of a long time to do to unlock Force sensitive. But there is no reward here for playing and exploring.
or any other dragon really, except for FS
ASD ticks, 2.1% most of the time. 25, 50, 75, and 100 are all there own ticks and you don't get the extra point until the tick after them.
Oh I mean like, every tick % everyday
FS/IR are both .9% everytime.
Not quite at say 4.5 it will go to 5.5 and where im at right now with FS its 74.5-75.5
@tardy perch I do agree changing full mechanics takes time, he doesn't need to do that with eldering or nesting though.
He could add mushrooms back to eldering, some people may not like it but it does add endgame and people would have to find new locations. Easy fix until he makes a working good system outside of passive ticks.
He could hotfix improve numbers for nesting, doesn't matter if they are perfect just need to not take 2 hours of nesting for 1-2 stats to go up 1 lvl. There are literally no breeders who like the new system, none which kind of means it needs a hotfix.
Tis life though at least we will get 1.0.1 before the end of the year.
And with a little bit of testing i did with nesting with an Elder it made zero difference to stats. In fact it was worse 
Those are him hinting at the 3 steps. Each one of those is a step. It's not one is overriding the other.
Elder doesn't matter just Dominant, and it does slightly more than 3rd point. Only real reason to get it is to see recessives, but that takes to long so not worth the time if you are a serious breeder.
Hint is a stretch for what his hints are
Breeding inheritance is not only partially bugged, but overly complicated. But they know that now, so they are changing it
The part about the steps wasnt me saying he was chnging his words. The part about it being campable then partially was though
More of vague words put together
I don't know where you heard it was PARTIALLY campable..?
Because none of it is?
Or at least of the discovered stuff.
Like i told you read it here on this channel from others. you will have to scroll up about 2 weeks ago to find it lol
I don't think you can camp anything to do with the moon. And the second 2 'hint' is still not confirmed, so that 'seek that which you become' is speculation from players still
I don't care what players said. I care wha tthe DEVS said. And he's not said it's partially campable. He said it was Non-campable. At least the first step is confirmed such.
People only are not sure if the other steps aren't because he's not said so. But I don't go off player guesses and assumptions.
Only first step is confirmed two months after release, and the rest don't matter because it is changing since everyone agrees it is not fun to passive elder for 3 months instead of play the game
Right
But apparently people are mad he's not just revealing the last 2 steps and what it unlocks now, even if it's changing. People need ot relax. XD It's just a game
I would honestly be a lot less upset if i didn't want to like the game and just can't.
We are getting elders via the passives anyway.
So yeah why not just let us know at this point?
Likei said not many are gonna spend that time onthe first step
Not my place to say. I'm guessing he's just too busy trying to fix what people don't like instead of poking his nose into a channel that seems to be really HATING him right now. Like, barely anyone in here has been kind lately. If I was him, I'd purposely never look in this channel
Agree Ulta
It's why I'm wishing people would be nicer. He only showed himself in here when people were nicer
If i was a fighter/elder player I would probably be nicer, but as a primary breeder I find being nice really hard ATM..
Im Personally almost at the point of muting this chat. Wouldnāt surprise me if jao already did so š
i'm not HATING anyone. If thats how it seems your wrong. Just bored running around looking for nothing lol
It is not just that the system is bad its that responses to assure us it will get better are well... not good.
Recessive Skins are one of the coolest things in the game, adds a lot of fun things to play with. Recessive stats has literally ruined most breeders fun because now you have to upstat 36 stats instead of 18 and the chances for upstat have actively become worse.
Skins are meaningless to me....i'm colour blind 
Jao honestly made a mistake comparing the system to SWG's FS unlock. Anyone familiar would've started visiting locations and doing all sorts in an attempt to do things adjacent to badges/themepark content. Finding out that the process start was to literally elder first passively really took a lot of wind out of peoples' sails because it ends up boiling down to logging in to claim a tick and then leaving because its not engaging.
That was the first thing i started doing going to every location
Yeah same 
Spent about 2 hours ever evening when i logged in for ticks going to every location over and over
I combed the map for hours every day looking at all of the locations and stuff.
I'd get more progress inciting in SWG Resto 
Funny because its true
This chat is literally more fun than the game
It was hillarious once you became a Jedi. THE WHOLE DAM SERVER CAME AFTER YOU š¤£
Careless Jedi on resto leads to Vader showing up and slaughtering everyone. Mos Eisley was in ruins a couple weeks back 
Aye show ANY sign you were a Jedi and that was it game over
BHs can still go for em of course but Vader poppin in for a casual aliven't is very funny.
Now that i think about it. I dont think i came across Vader. I cant remember seeing himin the game. Mind you it was VERY long time ago played. Havent played on the servers kept alive by fans. Played when it originally came out. Should still have the DVD rom hiding somewher.
Oh wait it was CD rom wasnt it?
Its for Restoration emu server specifically. They added Vader as the final vis level if you somehow hit full vis and avoid player bounties.
But we should go back to talking about eldering or something 
Yeah back to talking about eldering. Doesn't really matter to have that talk anymore though.
Ah that would explain. Now any thoughts on step 2 and 3 for Elder?
Because i am at a complete loss
You have to find the invisible stairs to the moon, place a nest on the moon, hatch/grow from the next with 18A++ stats, mate that with a 18E, hatch/grow, than you will see lights to follow called willow whisps at that point you are ready to elder another dragon.
Prove me wrong
i have a confession. I tried using Chatgpt help look for words to fill in the blanks for the hint about the moon...it didnt help 
Nah needs to be 18F. Possitive about that. Wait arent thos "willow whisps" flying jellyfish?
Yes
Tbh I think he is laying about the system when almost 100-200 players search for something every day with elders and without there is literally no way that noon found any kind of proof that speak for jao rather I could try to play lottery and would be rewarded with the same end result . But tbh with 100 people there would be st least someone who was able to get the small price .
So yeah I guess there is nothing than only passive elder š
That isn't proof. Please do not say he is lying just because people haven't found it
He's not lying.. He just made it way too hard, it's his first game, give the man a break!
It's not rumours when Jao has lied in the past, there is reasonable assumptions that can be made he'll do it again, he lied about the sandworm in the initial place-holder concept having AI, when it was just him controlling it, I was actively there, and I vividly recall this and how much people were chattering about it, and how misleading that whole ordeal was to alot of people.
It is again reasonable concern for people to voice their thoughts on him possibly lying to retain engagement. It's not us being malicious, and I'm happy you still have faith, because due to his history, and current contradictions, we feel lied to, and voicing those feelings is just a refelection on the current state of things.
It's a common tactic companies do use, it's just Jao is not very well versed in it, and the cracks are frustrating alot of people, and instead of just telling us, and maybe testing it out, then retrialing it in the future, it's just: Oh I'm going to rework it entirely.
That's actively drawing time away that can be focused on more aspects to be more engaging, and again gives littler faith that it's actively in the game.
People expressing their feelings/concerns on him lying, isn't us saying it's fact, alot of people are expressly stating things like: "I feel-" "I think-" along with piling on why they think/feel that way.
From what I can see, no one is being toxic about it, and are simply offering criticism/concern, but still continuing on about it to figure it out. But what has seemed to 'cause a bit more ire in the channel, is actively dismissing peoples worries/concerns, and pointing the finger at them for expressing their feelings and making accusations on them ruining the mood.
What ruined the mood, is the complex system & uncertainetny on honesty over the matter, that lead to people being worried about these things.
Because it's not helpful, keep it to figuring out the process, and complain in general or something
People are expressing how they feel about it, whether it's true or not is another matter entirely, but people are allowed to express their fears/concerns
Why take the conversaton to general, when this is the topic at hand confined to one channel?
It's better imho it's contained as long as people remain civil on the subject
Go complain in suggestions or message a mod or whatever, but let's keep this focused on finding the system, instead of flooding it with "I think/feel he is lying because x, y and z"
Figuring this out is the whole reason for this chat to begin with
Not to flood it with "I feel he is lying"
And people have been, a lot, and thus the trickle of how they feel about all the work they have put in, spills here, it's natural it arises.
Every time i open discord, there's a new post (or several) pushing the idea that he is lying
Then ignore it, and keep on about the theories, because people are going to complain about it, but you can simply redirect it instead of continuing in an argument spiral.
It's been said, and every new reason is a rehash of old reasons as to why he is lying, so why continue?
Anyways, im out
And people are going to vent/express their emotions, so why dwell on it? Idk what to tell you, just that it won't stop, so don't let it affect you if you can no point fighting a brick wall, it's something that can't be helped as much as you may try, negative opinons will come out everywhere when peole invest this much time, it's about how you move forward on it. Best bet, ignore it, or acknowledge how they feel, and encourage they keep trying if they want to or ar e still interested. You can keep it light and moving, with out invalidating anyone, or shutting them down kinda thing. Rediret it. Shutting it down just makes people feel more frustrated in the long run.
This is not the channel to be accusing the devs of lying. Anyway, I've stopped bothering with figuring out the elder system since it's gonna be changed anyway, and I have more fun games to play atm while I wait for the game to be in a more fun state. But I know how to not be rude about it, or spread rumors that no one seems to be actually PROVING. So yeah, let's move on.
There's only so much one can do with the moon, so I suspect step 2 is where most people are hitting a roadblock.
remain on topic here please, the topic is finding the eldering system
for feedback regarding the current active/passive eldering, head over to #1067202526878896248. this is not the channel to express it
it was never said that eldering is not in the game, there is no proof to say that developers lied regarding it. please do not spread misinformation and make sure to follow the rules in #readme
please also remain respectful to all members of the community
Altho I agree that spreading rumors and accusations isn't the correct Way to do things, this is what you get If you let something simmer for too long without checking on IT...Jao's reputation with all the delays and postponed mechanics isn't the Best unfortunately so people don't blindly believe his words anymore.
A riddle gets frustrating if IT can't be figured out within a reasonable Time, and eldering already reached that point (IT being a crucial gameplay mechanic only makes IT worse). The problem isn't that it's not 100% solved within a few days, but that we have no clue if we made any progress in it. For all we know there's already some who fulfilled step2 they just don't know IT yet or didn't stumble upon step 3 yet for IT to show. Even if someone unlocks the method they won't know HOW they did it because they won't know what triggeres step 2 and if a lot of Time passed between step 1 and 3 chances are they did a lot of things in between which makes the narrowing down hard.
I think saying that we dislike the New method is false, since we don't know what the New method is, we dislike that it's so hard to figure out in the first place. Expecting people to figure out a 3 step method without getting any visual or audible cues if a step is fulfilled is like searching 3 needles in a haystack.
Before changing the whole System he should maybe try to implement some indication of the steps you're on... something As simple as the coloring of the Elder progress bar would do... Like
No steps taken: red
1st step fulfilled: orange
2nd step fulfilled: yellow
3rd step fulfilled: green
Actively eldering: blue
Anyway i'm on my Way to Elder my SS on a 2X server and upon reaching IT i'll try to kill IT and eat the corpse with a Other adult to see what happens, because that idea doesn't let me rest XD (i'm playing on a PVE private server with barely anyone on and awesome admins, so I don't have to be afraid of my corpse being stolen)
Don't know if you found our pinned doc already, but there's explanation and link to my google sheet with all the ticks š
And Hazriel, I think Mac did that already, but go right ahead and tell us if something changed :p
My thoughts on it are, I don't think the 3rd line with the moon is "the" the is a weirdly specific word to censor out, so it's possible it's a number, or something else, but I agree, it's hard to confirm if the second step is killing your elder because there's no indiciation (that we've found at the very least).
What if you have to hold your elder for a set amount of time, like not lose it? Though Jao's interest in suddenly asking what did you do next is defenitely hard to ignore
I just can't think of anything that fits with the current night dynamic, and if it's semi-campable, but has to work on every map, could it be water based? There's a few textured water sources around the map, perhaps any of those?
I'm beginning to wonder if the person with the bug theories was onto something as well, because it's one thing bios can't do anything about that needs to be attacked
Also I have to question code-bugs as well, because the melanistic unlock isn't always consistent either, so what if there's issues with the elder that we've simply over looked.
Anyway i'm on my Way to Elder my SS on a 2X server and upon reaching IT i'll try to kill IT and eat the corpse with a Other adult to see what happens, because that idea doesn't let me rest XD (i'm playing on a PVE private server with barely anyone on and awesome admins, so I don't have to be afraid of my corpse being stolen)
I don't think you'll need to do that, the game actively disables your ability to kill your own dragons, so I don't think it's that, it'd be counter productive, but if you still wanna try it, but we could likely think of some better ideas for it
Thats a very good point. What if one of the steps is bugged, but without knowledge of what we are supposed to do we cant report any possible bugs with it.
The admins on my server are cool and willing to give restores so I won't lose anything, unless getting restored prevents you from eldering As well...
From what i understand Admin interference does negate the unlock process. I mean you can Elder but you cant do the 3 steps to unlock active Eldering
Killing your Elder as part of the process makes a bit of sense to be honest. Cant really active Elder if your already an Elder. So youd have to start over to know if you've unlocked it.
Mmh it makes the most sense to me too personally, but killing it just to eat the body isn't worth it imho
You can kill it either way, but maybe not for that end goal
Well i can tell you eating my Elders corpse did nothing i'm aware of, New growth has seen no change in ticks so far. That was an ASD
Right now i doing a few laps around the map with my Elder SS trying to come to a decision whether to kill it or not. If that is indeed step 2 it will be alot esier with a flier.
searching for the next step that is
Theres 2 things i would really like to know then id be more than happy to figure the rest out myself. What are we looking for? and do we get any kind of indication that we've done something, like a popup message or a music que?
Have you tried following the path of the moon? ei, going where it rises to where it sets? Looking at the sheet it appears some people got growth from traveling?
Traveling does seem like a dragon-y thing, and looking at the starwars rewards stuff, there's mention of career paths etc as well 
Following the moon was the second thing i did when we got that hint. First was call signing it every 2 seconds
. All call signs including DLC. Dont have the patreon lifetime reward call signs but i doubgt it has anything to do with that anyway and if it was well i'mm sure all hell would break lose
As for traveling to different locations i have been everywhere. many many MANY times now
Lately i have been thinking there could be an as of yet undiscovered cave hidden somewhere. And if so it would likely be hidden in/under/around vegetation.
I have even crawled in the underwater log, but nothing
lol same. Even searched under the lakes.
Jao had also said that Echo didn't play a role with the elder system, so locations or utilizing the map would be out of the picture. I think the moon hint is more figurative/poetic than literal. I just wish I was clever enough to produce ideas out of it šµāš«šµāš«
Well there are tons of caves to come as far as I understood. 1/4 of the map actually
But I was going on the premise that it“s IN the game right now
the moon can mean month, however long that would be on Jhrakon
AFTER ONE moon, you“ll #### yourself again
Oooo!
Yeah i was thinking along the lines of new moon
Also, become that which you seek (elder)
so you can seek that which you have become (elder)
How can we seek elder?
Has anyone tried howling at the moon with another elder? What if the second step IS social and you have to do sort of an elder party?
That would be dragony, wouldn“t it?
MANY times lol
okay...
Was doin that during the last night with Elder SS. Been logged in flying all over for few hours now
Who was the other elder?
Oh you mean with another player?
Yeah. Seek that which you have become
Yeah i cant. I'm literally the only 1 player left on the server im on
which one you on?
Official UK Glacier Peak
I might be able to do it with my main and alt accounts on Islecrest. I've got two asds at about 78% rn. It's a good idea š
I t was full when i joined when Update came out
yeah same on Dragonking
And i was so far intoElder Growth to leave
They“ll fill up again eventually
I would bet many would returnif they knew how to active Elder lol
that, and when Blitz comes out
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Tbf that would truly be bullsheet and a kick in the face...so if someone dies because they get stuck in a tree or fall under the map and an admin restores them they are now barred from an important gameplay mechanic? Punishing admin growth is bad Ćn itself, but somewhat understendable, but the rest? Why? What CAN admins do what won't hinder their players? they are meant to help out, not trip you on the Way, so I realy hope you're incorrect on that
I'm not sure about admin restores but it's been confirmed admin grows interfere. But yeah many have expressed that and there is a feedback thread for this specifically
My Elder ASD almost died of starvation because i fell into a pit. No one else onserver so had to come here to Discord to ask an admin to use the stuck command to get me out lol
Here is the incident lol
Yeah that's why IT would be unfair to punish any admin intervention
lets not jump to conclusions. They said grows, not restores.
But doesnt restore just mean getting the same dragon back as it was?
in my case it was just a /command you type in chat to pull you to a group member. Nothing to do with exploiting growth.
you should tell echo bout it
so he fixes the hole
You get 12 eggs with in elder ?
It is in game itās passive we already found it out š
I think they meant they hatched 12 eggs in total
for those saying passive eldering is the only way. i've created this! please read it and return to searching those steps! many people have theories of what the hint can say.
here's a few theories of what people think the hints mean
Become that which you seek
SEEK that which you've BECOME
AFTER THE moon you'll FIND yourself again
lets keep figuring out that hint! below 1.0 eldering notes! that's our current hint!
step 2 is NOT 'seek that which youve become'
Dude it's a guess lol no one knows šÆ what step 2 is lol
that's why i said "theory"? bro no one knows, it was people assume it is atm
I heard another one that sounded interesting, on the thought that the three letter word before moon wouldn't be censored if it was something simple like "the" š¤. It was "After one moon" for the first half. It had me curious
feel free to give anything a try. im just doing my best to help remind those of the steps and to keep the subject on track :3
we dont need to hear people say that someone has lied about something when its not true.. so im just doing what i can 
It was helpful, I liked how you had it visually set up š
better than a complete list that i had before! now it has the most important parts we really need to focus on
I dunno if it's just me but I feel like 4 years of working on the game shouldn't have given us a roughly 1 month long eldering process when the previous one could take a week. I much rather hunt for shrooms than just strictly passive elder. Adding to the fact that we dont even know the full eldering process still.
Feel like shrooms could have been implimented in the game we have now since it is a balance of active eldering and passive instead of just "you want elder? Passive grow for it every 12 hours and you can get it ;3". Orange shrooms going to fs and ir could have been easily implimented and so on UNTIL the full eldering process gets released. But that's just me ĀÆ_(ć)_/ĀÆ
unrelated but a few would entirely understand you. bringing back shrooms as an optional thing would be nice, i've even added it as a suggestion however we may not expect results i still did it. however hopefully the next method will be a lot easier than how it is now cough https://discord.com/channels/576933363672285186/1224424732716175360 here you go.. not trynna do much just wanted to show ya
I 100% agree. It feels disheartening to just be told "grow for a month and you'll elder." For me, it feels like a huge waste of time and it doesn't give the same feeling as eldering with your final shroom.
I feel like you should be proud to elder. You've given effort into growing your dragon. Rn it just feels like a log in/out simulator š
dont worry, the problem is noted and will be fixed for now all we can do is at least try our best to figure out what he wanted to do while we wait
XD true. I just hope things get better
I would like to get a fairly sized group on the same server. Form a big line North to south, start from the west of the map and march the map to east 
All ASD
the line will be formed like this. Elder ASD, Step 2 ASD, Elder ASD, Step 2 asd and so on
My guess is as follows:
- Get an elder (Become that which you seek)
- Kill / lose your elder (i.e., scrab death) (Kill that which you've become)
- Actively play. Theoretically when the game goes through a night cycle (midnight?) , you'll tick. (Under the moon, you'll find yourself again)
Sorry this isnt it. I've been logged in long enough at times to be through 3 day and night cycles
Both As Elder ASD and what we assume step 2 ASD (Respawn after Elder)
Tsk. Noted.
Currently have an SS Elder. And still trying to decide whether to kill it or not.
I suppose i could off it. FS is about 2-3 weeks away from Elder.
76.4%
Think i will wait a week. We shall see howthe mood goes.
Well got 3 at a time. Hatched em ate them started again for a total of 12. Kinda annoyed that the stats were worse than the parents. Meaning nesting with an Elder made no difference or actually makes it worse.
With elders, you can see the recessive genes and from there, you need to try and line up the stats to improve them. Itās more tricky now since getting Aās and A +ās was waaayyyy too easy in legacy
Dont you need 4 evo points though? 3 in Social 4th in dominance. I focused my Elder on Speed and survival. Wasnt thinking about nesting when i started Eldering. The other SS i'm growing though is getting nesting Evo points. But will have to wait a wee while until i get to 25% for the 4th Evo point.
Yeah. All points need to be in social for the nesting stats to improve. Makes sense why yours got worse and not better.
Yeah i figured 
Fyi, when replying directly below, please don't ping me.
fair do's
I went to all 4 corners of the map šŗļø 2 times went through 3 night and day cycles howled at the moon at each lake Howeld at the crystals for hours and nothing
Cuz you need dom probably
You need all points in nesting to increase the potential of getting something better
then again, with recessives, you can still get bad eggs too
Same
Can't believe we're already at the point at which we howl at the crystals for hours š
Im weeping internally for you rn, my heart goes out for our fallen comrade
ohhhhh crap i REALLY hope if new spawn dies the process doesnt reset. I dosed off and died of thirst/hunger š¤¦āāļø š¤£
FOLKS. What have i found? Nothing has happened as yet maybe have to wait for Elder tick to find out. Or is this a known bug of sorts?
Can drink from multiple parts of the roots of this Elder Tree? Is that what we call these massive trees? Maybe have to drink from it at night
it isnt campable
Ah man you shouldnāt of killed your elder lol š
I made that mistake
I am aware of that. But i am not ruling anything out at this point.
Truth be told i just got bored. And thought might be better to put evo points into nesting
Having an elder with crap stats is kinda pointless
Also @wide canopy Jao did say its soloable but he also said somewhere its social. Which is contradictory. So i really dont know what to beleive.
Gaslighting gang š„
(im kidding) but yh its rlly hard to find i gave up
Fair enough
It's always been like this š fun hidden water spots lol
I definitely would recommend to not kill your elder unless youāve tried possibly everything you can think of for step 2 and 3 which is not killing your elder for step 2 like everyone thinks it is. Just cause Jao said something about Rusty killing his elder heās probably just trying to pull everyoneās leg making it harder to figure out how to elder. Jao did say he made eldering difficult to figure out and itās definitely something Jao would do in hopes of there being less elders than there were on legacy. Steps 2 and 3 could just be lies to throw everyone off and itās actually something else or theyāre actual hints but people think youāre supposed to kill your elder when itās actually something else. The steps are like a riddle so you really have to think about it and put what actually you think might go there cause I definitely donāt think step 2 is killing your elder, why spend a month eldering in passive ticks just to kill what you spent time doing. Killing your elder should be the last choice if you canāt think of anything else to do
The 3rd step really makes you think the 2nd step is to kill your dragon but absolutely do everything you can think of doing that all dragons can do before killing your elder
Ok but if you already have an elder, why do you need to active eldering system for it?
Yea makes no sense does it
So it most likely is 'lose/kill that which you've become'
Think what im gonna do regardless if killing the Elders is the thing to do or not is just kill them all off anyway and start over but put all evo points into nesting. Try and get some A++ stats on dragons for my main account. Then on main account dragons will put Evo points into Survival and speed for PVP.
Still gonna grow current FS and IR to Elder first. Just incase.
Ahh so its nothing special then lol
If there was an active eldering method, one of the 200 players who play actively on Sanctuary and Molten would've found it by now. It's not just "difficult" I think it doesn't exist
That's if they are trying to figure it out or not or are waiting till they have an 18A dragon to elder so they can get those A+'s etc...
Since on pve all people want to do is try to upstat to get the same stats over and over again
It does give them something to do though till all this other crap gets released
From those players, i think only a few are really trying to figure it out, so yeah
One of Jao's most recent comments (from March 28) indicates that the current system is passive, not active
which of course directly contradicts his other comment about there being steps to actively elder 
He probably means that it will be active eldering from the start and you don't have to unlock it first through passive eldering.
One can only hope that it makes it worth playing and encourages PVP like shrooms but less campable.
I'm just reading it as he said it š
Because twice he said it'll be an active system again and indicated that the active system planned (something you have to do) is not what we currently have
people still think he actually had the other eldering steps in the game? He was always going to say that the process was too difficult for people to figure out because he literally only had ticks in the game. DoD is gonna die once other dragon games come out
It'd be nice for him to actually share what the other two steps are in the current system. I think a loooot of people have their doubts, what with Jao saying a couple weeks in to release that "Oh nobody's figured it out yet maybe I'll change it with the Blitz release" when he should have known full-well that it'd take at least a month and a half for anyone to even complete step one of his new system? And he's now apparently waffling back and forth between "oh it's an active system there are multiple steps" and "we're going back to an active system which is different from how it currently is" 
Like at least if he'd share the actual system itself and people who have already hit passive elder could test steps 2-3 out, there wouldn't be any doubts that oh yeah he actually put in an active system š
Especially if he's changing it, where's the harm in sharing the soon-to-be-ex-method?
this tbh it would help restore some faith from alot of people
plus personally I wanna see if it was something stupid simple and if those of us were right that step 2 was die
He wonāt or if he dose he can totally just make up a system how would we ever know lol š
I mean, that's why he'd need to tell us what it is now š That's why I said "share the soon-to-be-ex-method" re: people who have already hit passive elder being able to test out steps 2-3
If he shares what it is now, and people test it now, and it works now, we have proof that the system was coded and in place like he said it was.
^^^^^
That's what would help restore some faith as Devina said.
I agree
If the system changes and then he reveals what it was, it'll be like š¬ ok neat but we still don't know whether or not you were completely full of excrement my dude
Thatās why I asked him
If he could just tell us since his changing it
And he hit me with a riddle
ya honestly not great at this point to hit us with riddles
hell if he like hits us with how to before the change with like a week or 2 before it hits that would be cool
just long enough to test and prove
Or at this point itās just not in the game and heās lied about it š cuz we have tried absolutely everything and nothing has worked aside from a passive tic š
That's why it'd reeeeally benefit him to reveal the method before it's changed, cos if there are players that can then go and verify that it's in game and working we'd be a lot more inclined to believe him on things in the future
Right now though with the amount of stuff that was supposed to be included in 1.0 but got pushed back, you really gotta wonder if it actually was included at all and all these riddles and needing to passive first were just a bid to buy time š©
There's no way he should have expected folks to figure out eldering within a couple weeks when he first started talking about changing the method with the Blitz release when he knew full well that if someone had to passive first, it'd take (minimum) a month to reach the first step on his ladder 
It's all just super sus when looking at all the information
And honestly I hope that the method was fully coded and fully implemented like he said it was, but with all the other things that have gone wrong or been excluded and/or bugged, and him also recently referring to the upcoming changed system as active (something you have to do) instead of the current system ... š¬ My confidence in it actually being there and being active like he previously said it was is... slim
I find it really funny that i kept getting told āthere IS a second eldering system in gameā when I originally said there wasnāt, and now that Jaoās suddenly changing eldering to an active method like it shouldāve been, everyoneās saying that there was no second method š
Opinions are allowed to change when there's new/different information to go off of š
Hereās a step-by-step guide to creating a hard to obtain thing in a video game
Step one: donāt make the obtainment method surround getting said hard to get thing (having to grow to elder passively to unlock the other 2 steps)
never said they werenāt, just thought the irony was funny
It's amusing in a sad way yea 
I really dont mind the elder by passive first thing, I think it'll help keep Elder a bit rarer for longer and the fact that its equal for everyone and you immediately know how long someones been working on that specfic dragon when u see they achieved elder with it. Although it IS a boring way to do it I prefer it over the mushrooms.
The only reason elders were so common in the first place is because we literally had nothing else to do, and we still have nothing else to do
It's a little ridiculous Jao keeps making all these moves to make elders rarer, when in reality, simply just providing more in-game content would make players more inclined to experience the full game before trying to elder
I mean there is more in game content planned its just not here yet but I feel you
planned, and yet, failed to deliver because of the choices this dev team creates
we're behind by over 2 years when it comes to things Jao has been promising
making eldering harder is not the solution
same with making nesting/upstatting harder
they're just distractions so we don't complain about the lack of content
let's be real
1.0 and legacy are basically the same when it comes to gameplay
Its not harder tho its actually easier it just takes time. I personally dont consider logging in twice a day as Hard just cuz it takes awhile
nesting SHOULD be harder because its the only thing to work for. its the only way to keep people playing right now because they are behind
It is harder, and significantly more boring
if they actually want people to play, they need to add incentives to stay ingame
rn it's just "log in for 3 minutes every 12 hrs"
This is a problem
nesting isn't gameplay either, and making it harder is also not the answer
bro what lol
All you do is sit there and occasionally produce a player, in terms of gameplay, that is extremely shallow
And not everyone wants to sit there for hours crapping out eggs
Then dont do it? PVP is gameplay too. Its basically the Isle with dragons. Every creature survior is exactly the same
How is logging in 2 times to a tick fun?
Pvp is currently very unfair
i didnt say it was i just said it wasnt harder
It's extremely hard to survive as a solo hatchling
if u read what i said i actually said it is boring
No, it is harder
t isnt
It takes 50 days if you get both ticks
jao himself has said they made nesting harder intentionally
logging into a game is not hard
That isnāt hard for you lol
and yeah, it is harder
no lol logging into a game is not hard
You can't actively elder anymore
i do it everytime i play something
that makes it more difficult
id hate to see what you guys would do playing dark souuls
Your being sarcastic at this point
if logging in is hard for you
At this point, you're kind of just being abrasive
theres a difference between something being hard and something being time consuming
big whoop
it's still more difficult to elder because it takes a lot longer than it should
I think trying to eat mushrooms while being chased by clans is hard. Logging into a game for 1 minute a day is time consuming but not hard.
Itās fun
hard, and actually fun
Logging in every day for 1.2% of growth every 12 hrs is both boring and frustrating
yes, which I agreed with lol
Itās rewarding to get chased by clan and live and becoming elder
you should probably take into account that more people are playing pve than pvp
No you just dont read what I say because your so hung up over my opinion of logging into a game 1 minute a day is not hard
There's nothing to do except kill each other (in pvp) and that's also extremely boring
thats every creature survivor out there tho
Literally the Isle
sigh
logging in isn't hard
eldering is hard
The Isle is also lacking, let's be real
all of them all
The Isle is more years behind than this game.
No, it's not
It is
they had to completely restart with Evrima
I really dont agree with that Dondi bans crisitim too
Evrima started in roughly 2021
lmao
Isle was started in 2011
2015 was the release date
Like 2012
There kickstarter started in like 2012 tho
I said they're open with their community, but yeah, the shutdown of criticism in these 2 games is awful
Ummmm lol š
Idk about it that
Doni aināt no angle
Rusty
lol
please read out what i said
I donāt mind the eldering system in this game though.
Since work and life are a thing, logging in every afternoon wonāt be an issue for me lmao
You said isle is open with there community right