Thread:RinasaurusRex/@comment-36575271-20201002081956/@comment-35719775-20201002164640

Ehh, to me calculating breed growth thresholds is less like figuring out things like lumina variant mechanics as it is like calculating the sickness thresholds, which has gotten people in trouble for reverse engineering in the past. Really just don't want to see anyone losing scrolls over it. I'd prefer to know it's alright to be running this kind of data first, rather than finding out that it was not allowed after the folks involved got burnt.

But y'know, I'm also not a Dragon Cave admin, just a wiki one. I can't say for sure whether this would be an issue or not. Just want to raise that as a possible issue for precaution.

But yeah, y'know, wikis are community projects. For this information to be included, your data and methods would need to be made publicly available, and we'd need to allow public contributions to the dataset. I wasn't meaning to imply just making a "My egg was stubborn!" thread, because obviously this needs many, many examples for every kind of dragon, not just the "stubborn" ones, to make sure there is sufficient data to reflect all the potential variables.

Just to spitball some factors I'd be curious about: TJ has said that dragons mature more easily if they're on the same scroll as their parents, so that's a known variable. But does incubate have an impact on maturation rate, beyond lowering hatching time? Does trading? If a dragon got sick or was warded? Is there a difference between CB versus bred but not on their parents' scroll? Does it impact the threshold if an egg gets its views consistently over the days leading up to the "magic point" versus only gaining them rapidly after it reaches 4 days?

Of course, you're welcome to make a sandbox page off your User page if you want to explore representing the data you've collected. It's just, before this gets implemented into the Main space, I'd want to make sure the information gets some independent review from other users.

RinasaurusRex (talk) 16:46, October 2, 2020 (UTC)