i DID it!!

[trystan830.livejournal.com]

first, my internet is intermittent (grrr), but hopfully i'll be back posting at my dragons at my usual night time slot, somewhere during the 10 p.m. EST hour.

second, i've been working on a project for the past 8 days, since February 10th, when i bred my little orange magi egg. if you recall in my posts, the magi sprite was posted for views only - you couldn't click on them.

when i first started at the Dragon Cave, someone told me about a Minty Project, where the person was attempting to hatch an egg and grow up with zero clicks. later on the DC Forum, someone posted a screencap of a winter dragon that had grown up with zero clicks.

the question is simple: are clicks needed for a dragon to grow up? I wanted to see if i could do it myself.... and i DID!!

the first screencap is from when the egg hatched - i wasn't on line when it happened, but i was about an hour later.


and this screencap is from this afternoon -


some tips if you want to try this:

*about a week prior, stop posting links to your scroll. people love to click, so if they see a Zero, they'll want to click on the dragon. you don't want your scroll link anywhere.
*only copy the <*img src=""> tag (no asterisk) - it's just the image of the egg or hatchling.
*do not post the egg or hatchling to fansites like Eggs Will Be Dragons or the DC Fansite. it'll end up getting clicks there. i'm a member of 9 LJ comms, 7 are listed in the userinfo here, which is where i posted. i also posted the image in my own LJ, and just thanked people if the image loaded on their screen. (today's message said "if the orange dragon loads on your screen, thanks!") it really is that easy. reloading that one entry will give the sprite views, too.
*it's easier if you've bred the egg, this way, you click on one of the parents, and then where the parent has "Children" listed, click on the code. you won't give it a view or a click this way.
*it takes patience. the egg got down to 3d 1h or so, the last i saw the hatchling, it had 3d 2h.
*good luck!

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