Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-36480310-20180831202725/@comment-2601:14A:8200:960:801C:A0BC:547A:C63B-20180905004512

HA. They're so common that the market should be paying US when we buy them. It's horribly common in the volcano biome, until recently it was the chief blocker and got annoying quite often.

It's not gonna be great for trading or breeding unless you raise CB eggs to hatchies and trade them in bulk or if you make a really nice lineage with them which would take a lot of work and you wouldn't know if you would get anything until after the line is made.

Gonna assume you're a newer user to the site for the next bit:

If you're looking for valuable trades you're gonna have a bit of a tough time at first, for the most part if it's easy to get its offspring will not trade well and it's caverns won't fetch much so you're gonna have to put in a little bland work if you're gonna trade something stable instead of rare hunting, hope ya like having eggslots full of things you don't want and have no guarantee of getting you what you want.

Of course if you just want the breeds and lineage dosn't matter then all of this is mostly irrelevant because messy dragons are mostly low level trades (and inbred lineages are pretty much garbage outside of special cases). You'll have a much easier time unless you're looking for unbreedables if you don't care about lineage, the advice below could still help but it won't be as difficult because messy/inbred versions of rares are usually cheap.

SOME ADVICE ON TRADING:

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-If you're gonna raise CB hatchies for trading I'd recommend BSAs, semi-rares (like fire gems and gold wyverns, somewhat rare but not something to write homke about) and new additions to the game, people have goals and many richer users will trade for the luxury of not having to raise them themselves so that's a solid plan.

-If you don't want to hunt you could also raise assorted CB commons/uncommons and trade them in bulk but that's a bit riskier because people are more likely to not want the breeds you are offering then if you specificity grab what's in demand/rare.

-If you're looking for breeders you're gonna have a tougher time because if it's easy to get the cave born the 2gs will be basicly fodder, even 2g xenowyrms aren't worth that much, and they're rares so you're either gonna need to get a nicely linaged prize of a gen of 3 or lower, breed metal checkers with golds and silvers, and while most don't have any a CB gold or silver could be used for trading but only the actual metal eggs will be worth anything.

-You could also breed as many black dragon eggs as you can hold and hope they alt, 2g alt blacks (Purebreds normally goes for the most but a pretty pair can be worth a lot to the right person) usually are worth a bit more than your average xenowyrm so if you're up for gambling they might work out (or be a total letdown)

-^undines could also work but alt blacks are more popular so I'd recommend blacks but that's just me

-^alts that drop in the cave and alts that show their aptness such as red dorsals and ridge wings aren't worth as much as alts that require hatching to tell, CBs are still worth a fair ammount but unless the bred alt's parents are also alts it's probably not gonna get too much, grabbing caveborns and hoping that they're alts and APing the ones that aren't would probably be more worth your time.

-If you want the *really* good stuff you're gonna need to work for em like crazy, CB xenowyrms, coppers, blusangs, and aeons are all good ideas for this sort of thing, raising them in bulk might get you something nice but I've tried getting CB golds/silvers for them in the past with upwards of 15 rares up for offer and have never gotten a CB gold for them or anything near the value of one, like one silver but that's a rare occurrence so results may vary.

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Results will ways vary and this is just advice forged from my personal experience, the trade market is not a static thing and it's all dependent on demand so this advice is no gureentee of getting what you want or even any offers at all. Good luck.