Dragon Cave-Have eggs or Dragons?

The one on your siggy is a mint youngling.

Typically you can abandon the eggs the day after you get them. I accidentally clicked on an egg I didn't need the other night and was able to set it aside the next afternoon. :)

Well, I've frozen the hatchlings I had since the grey was another female (drat)...so nothing new for me. :(

I just hope my luck gets better in catching those metallics! Every time one loads up it's already taken!

The site itself gets very slow on the hour because of all the eggs flowing in.

Rare ones are so hard to grab.
I want to make an encyclopedia of all the different kinds of dragons and their egg color and such. :]

Hah! At least I picked up a new white (better be a male) and two-headed (BETTER be a female)! :D

Still on the hunt for those metallics...

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I don't understand why I can't name my hatchling.

D: D:

It says this:
You try to write the name, but the ink disappears as you write, so you decide to try something else.

Discouragement?

YES i finally got a red one!!!!!!! its relaxing in the scroll for a couple days

If the ink disappears when you try to name a dragon, it means that name is already taken. Every dragon in the entire database needs a unique name. So if you are trying to name your dragon Joe, but someone else already has a dragon named Joe, you can't use that name.

TJ did code in a neat thing that if a dragon is unviewed for a long time (a month maybe, don't remember how long), it will lose its name, so at least you are only competing with active users for names, not ones that haven't logged into the dragon cave for a year. This does mean that viewing a dragon by name to see if the name is taken is a bad idea, because you'll ensure that the name stays taken instead of becoming available again.

If you didn't know, you can view a dragon by name like so:
http://dragcave.ath.cx/viewdragon/n/little_girl_blue
Note the /n/ and the underscores instead of spaces in the name of my water dragon, Little Girl Blue.

Don't feel bad, I haven't been able to get any of the rarer eggs at all. :(

With a little help, I've got the paper egg! Yay! I was starting to get really frustrated not being able to get ANY of the eggs I was missing, so I'll admit I recruited someone with highspeed. :P

Whoo hoo! I got the blue egg! ^_^ I've never even seen it before, so it wasn't a matter of not clicking fast enough, it just never showed up for me.

I guess it would help if I put it in my signature....I thought I did but I didn't save it after I did it. I looked at my scroll and couldn't figure out why the little guy didn't have any clicks! :P