Making Dragons Grow

Dragon growth is based on several different factors: Views, Unique Views, Clicks and Time.

Views
Views denote the overall number of views your egg or dragon has received. This can be misleading as the amount of views you can recieve is restricted by the amount of unique views you have. For every unique view your dragon accumulates, it can receive a maximum 15 views. So, if an egg has 10 unique views it can't have more than 150 views. Views, some may argue, are a key decider on when a dragon will hatch or grow up, although no formula has ever been released by Dragcave administration.

Usually, your egg starts cracking at around 700-900 views, and continues to crack with more views.

Unique Views
Unique views are accumulated every time an individual views yours eggs. However, unlike views, you can only gain 1 unique view per person. Unique views are important since they decide how high your views count can go. As was stated in the previous section, views can be no more than 15 times the number of unique views.

Clicks
Clicks, like unique views, can only be given out once per person. A click happens when somone accesses a dragon's statistics page. Clicks are not essential to a dragon's growth, as a dragon can grow without any clicks at all, but the presence of numerous clicks speeds up the growth process.

Time
Even though your egg may have plenty of views and has a big hole in it, or your hatchling has plenty of views and has grown wings and has gendered, hatching and maturing times are randomized. Until your dragon reaches its "magic time", it cannot move on to the next stage. The most commonly accepted theory is that the "magic time" can be between 4 days and 3 days. Some dragons take extra time to hatch/grow up.

However, if your dragon has reached its "time" but has not yet reached a high enough views/unique views/clicks count, it will not hatch or mature until it does reach said count. If the dragon does not meet this count by the time its time runs out, it will die. This is why eggs and hatchlings with fewer than 3 days remaining are considered emergency dragons.