Board Thread:DC Wiki Discussion/@comment-47.153.171.87-20171104044719/@comment-1738746-20171104052010

I have thought about this myself, and spriters have been asked about it on different occasions (I'm not sure if Stripes are included in that conversation) with them calling their dragons variations as opposed to Alts. If I recall correctly, it was from these discussions with spriters that lead to a definition written on Category:Alternates that says for a common dragon to be an Alt, the egg they hatch from must be the same as the original version's, therefore having to wait and see if it hatches as an alt (this is different from just being a bred-only variant, though at the moment only Stripes and Spinels fall into this). The category doesn't explain this too well, so I'm going to work on re-wording this! As a note, it's also on my project list to gather together in a category dragons that have variations to further separate alts and variants.