can you remind me as to what the payouts were for that really big plague battle? i want to know what i missed out on... ):
and wait, are you sure it's wise to get rid of them immediately? won't i run out of fodder for when there's an actual battle or they'll all be babies? i mean obv you know what you're talking about but i don't have endless fodder
Gonna switch to my laptop so i can type properly to answer the question, back soon!
My friend ended up coming over sooner than expected and so we sewed for 4 hours whoops. o:
It depends on how you want to manage your fodder, to be honest.
I go out and buy fodder from the AH when a battle rolls around. I almost never breed my own. It sounds like you're breeding your own dragons for fodder to train and sell instead of buying from the AH, which limits how much fodder you have on hand, is that right? The AH is full of endless fodder. : D And with the added bonus that they don't take up lair space until you buy them.
I go for maximizing fast turnover rates for fodder instead of trying to invest a ton of time into each individual dragon. For instance, I can't be bothered to wait 5 whole days for hatchlings to grow up. I'd have to feed them all and waste a ton of food during that time. So I hatch fodder babies and sell them for the going AH price. With the money I got from selling them, I buy 4-5 day old hatchlings (so I don't need to wait as long but the price is almost the same). I sell them when they age into adults for 2-3k profit each if I'm feeling lazy, or train and exalt/sell for Dom battles for more profit. If there's a battle going on, once the newly aged adults I was holding are gone, I head to the AH and buy more adults to train. I usually hit level 5 or 6 and then quit because the time it takes to train from level 5 to 7 I could have trained 2 or maybe 4 more dragons to level 5. Higher turnover rate = more profit total.
A lot of times I just age hatchlings into adults and sell the adults for easy money.
- Buy a ton of 5 day olds at around 6k each.
- Let them turn into adults after rollover that night.
- Sell adults at their going AH lowest. Right now that's 8.5k each. So I'd be making 2.5k per dragon just for holding them in my lair overnight and chucking them back in the AH.
That's 37.5k per page. I have 3-3.5 empty pages normally, so that's over 100k per day just for letting them spend the night. Time + Lair Space = MONEY. This is why I always push lair expansions being good investments. Even though my next expansion is like 1.2mil, that would take less than 2 weeks to earn with just selling fodder alone. And then I'd have 5 more spaces to make money with. It just builds up on itself.
This is also just theorizing during normal conditions. During a heated battle, the profits are much much higher.